Easter Saturday is Busy

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

A nothing much day today.  We saw some pictures of the throngs in Guayabitos and are sure happy its not like that on our beach.  

Guayabitos

our beach

Kenia went public with the name of her new restaurant.  It will be located on Alcapulco Ave on the north end of the Allery hotel.  She is gonna have a high end coffee and breakfast boutique.  We wish her all the best and look forward to many eggs benedict next season.  I always told her she would have her own restaurant with her name on it.  "El Cafecito de Kenia"!!

Some snacks and some snoozes and it snuck up on sunset time.  We only have a few left. 

come on dad, lets go walk

sun is well behind the island

I headed downtown after supper to check out what was happening.  The Cafecito was quite busy with Kenia, Oscar and Karen all working tonight.

In the plaza there were a lot of people getting ready for the Easter Saturday Mass.  It is celebrated outside the church building because it symbolizes that Jesus is not there.  He is in the tomb.  There is a whole fire ceremony and the lighting of candles.  It is quite a performance to watch.  Mexicans are highly religious people.

Back home we have started re watching "Sons of Anarchy".  It is great being old because I don't remember hardly any of it from the time we watched it originally.  Good Nite!!!

Fresh Buns

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We are loving our new view out our front door.  We are here to see the ocean, and that is what we see from our patio and front door.  The breeze comes knocking every day and keeps us quite cool.  Our move was the right thing to do.

Even with Semana Santa upon us, the beach is quite empty for the first part of the day.  Thats when Archie and I go for our walks.  He loves to just roam without having to be on a leash.

The house 3 doors down has a new sign up.  It says no umbrella's please!!!   They had a sign a couple years ago that said no trespassing, and back in Covid they had one that said stay away because of Covid.  They are the sign people I guess.  lol

Susan made some yummy buns this afternoon, so we will have lots of snacks around here.  Cheeze Whiz, jam, honey, even ham and away we go!!!

Jen caught a picture of Archie and I getting back from our afternoon walk on the beach.  It is still fairly hot at this time of day but the ocean breeze offsets the heat.

And the sun is sliding in behind the island real fast now, reminding us that we need to get packing up our stuff soon.  We will get to enjoy a few more sunsets before we head out.  Good Nite!!!

Moving Day

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Now for all you sticks and bricks folks the words "moving day" is something you don't want to hear very often.  But when you live in an RV, it is a kind of simple process.  Susan wanted to try swinging RRV around so the patio faces the ocean, so we thought we would try it before we leave.  It took a couple hours to gather up our stuff and pack it away.  We had to do this anyway for the trip home.  I didn't even pull the awning in, because it just involved a couple movements to turn the 90 degrees.  We both think this will be the angle we park on next year as well.

turned 90 degrees

new view out to the ocean

I had to trim one of the prickly trees up near the wall to get RRV in there properly.  By the time I finished I was dripping blood.  The thorns are very sharp!!!

check the bleeding left hand

We are starting to put stuff away in the pool room so I shuffled things around in the corner to make room.  I uncovered Mr. Huntsman Spider hanging out back there.  He is a big one.  They are good spiders and eat lots of bugs.

I managed to get our laundry down to the Lavenderia today so we will have nice smelling sheets tonight.  

The electricians came again today to finish up what they started yesterday.  They put in all new wiring in the power mast from the main line.  Should fix the problem.  I didn't see any sparks today but they still did all the connections live!!!

There are getting to be more and more people here as Semana Santa approaches.  The beaches are getting busier every day.  It is nice to see all the vacationers from inland cities.  They love to eat and drink and listen to music on the beach.

While I was downtown at the plaza, there was some sort of a mass going on and partway through the service, a couple guys got up on the mezzanine where the bells are an began ringing them with all their might.  At first I thought they were not supposed to be there, but quickly realized that it had something to do with the service and Easter.  They rang them as hard as they could for almost 5 minutes.  It was something I had not witnessed before. 

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ring those bells

Sunset tonight saw the sun completely disappear behind the island.  The countdown is on!!  Good Nite!!

More Friends Head North

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We were up bright and early this morning so we could give Hubert and Bibian and John and Kirley a send off.  They are heading on up the road to Mazatlán for a few days before continuing north.  Wished them all safe travels and off they went.

Breaker breaker, lets hit the road!!

tight fit through the gate

Lots of goodbye's

It only takes moment after people leave to feel the emptiness in the park.  We are the only RV left with the exception of Brad and Julies trailer.  We wish them all safe travels.  

We will not be leaving for about 10 days and here is the reason we are not in a hurry.  This is a picture from back home.

Joel was looking for something to do so we hired him to wash the screen tent so we could put it away, and he also gave the Jeep a good wash.  We have been down a lot of dusty roads with it in the last while.

good for another year!!

Shiny huh??

Outside mats got a scrub as well

We had a power outage this afternoon so after chasing someone to fix it the local guys came over and found the problem.  One of the wires had burned off so only half of our panel was working.  They fixed it and we were all back to normal.

Problem is up in the prickly bushes.

burned wire

Just after this sparks flew and so did his pliers.  Careful!!!

I got my tire and tube all changed yesterday so today I biked to the tire shop and got the guy to put a patch on my tube with the hole.  He has a little hole in the wall shop but was happy to help me.  20 peso's and I now have a spare tire and tube.

While I was there another man came along and plopped a couple of Jack fruit down and they started a conversation of some sort.  I guess they were bartering because the tire guy went to the scrap tire pile and pulled out 4 bike tubes and gave them to him and off he went!!!  Gotta love it.

Archie and I spent the afternoon doing what we do best both on the beach and in the house!!!

Our sunset get together was non existant tonight.  There are only five of us on the property right now so our schedules do not always work for sunsets. 

And I always say that when the sun sets behind the island, it is getting close to time to go.  Well today it touched the island!!  We best get packing soon!!  Good Nite!!!