John and Lauren Hit the Road

WHERE ARE WE? Numero Uno RV Park, La Penita, Mexico

We all were up and about in time to give John and Kirly a send off.  They are heading north today on the first leg of their journey back to BC.  They hope to get an hour or so north of Mazatlan tonight.  

Turned around and ready

Max saying goodbye

there they go!

The place is looking pretty bare with 3 RV's gone now.  It will be pretty quiet around here for the next week or so.

Joel was here today doing his thing.  He loves to work with the plants and seems to know what they need.  The whole place needs a good rain to bring back the greenery but they tell me that won't be until June or so.

My project was to try to get rid of the rust from the cylinders on the awning.  I didn't notice them rusting in time so there is some damage to the shaft.  One of the prices we pay for being so close to the ocean mists.

When Archie and I went for a walk down by the estuary, we noticed a bunch of guys pounding a post in the sand and then stretching a rope out down the estuary.  They had measuring tapes and such and it looks like some sort of development is planned.  We will wait and see.

After supper I walked down to Kenia's for something to do.  She had made a big pot of Chicken vegetable soup and was sharing with her friends.  I wasn't hungry but did have a couple spoon fulls and it was delicious.

There is a whole chicken in there

We watched sunset tonight carefully to see if the sun would touch the island.  Yup it did and we saw the green flash as well.  Tomorrow it will start to tuck behind the island.  Good Nite!!

Last Game of Flyball for the Season

WHERE ARE WE? Numero Uno RV Park, La Penita, Mexico

We have been doing a few things every day to sort out our stuff and decide what can stay behind and what needs to come with us.  Yes Archie convinced us he should come.  John and Lauren are leaving tomorrow and Kip and Suzanna are leaving on Tuesday, so we arranged to have a rousing game of Flyball before everyone leaves.  We even had a girls against guys and of course the guys......lost!!!  We will not live that down for a long time I'm sure.

When we got done the Flyball, we took a few minutes to dry off and then we had a nice pizza supper.  Sue made a couple salads and we all ate out at the palapa.  We always do well with lots of food and lots of chatter.

Based on what I saw during sunset tonight, we have one more sunset before the sun starts setting behind the island.  As I have mentioned before, when its behind the island, it is time for us to go.  We better get our packing up done fairly quickly.  1 week left to go.

After sunset, the moon was quite pretty above the island.  Going to be hard to leave this paradise.  Good Nite!!!

An Adventure

WHERE ARE WE? Numero Uno RV Park, La Penita, Mexico

The tides are rising once again, and the waves are getting stronger.  This is where Archie and I normally go for a walk but not today.  Also if you remember our injured bird, it was sitting along here yesterday.  No sign of him today so I can only assume he got washed out to sea.  

One of our first stops was Fortuna de Vallejo.  A sleepy little town with not a lot going on today.  We stopped at the plaza to check it out.  Seems nothing has happened in the plaza since Christmas because all the decorations were still up.

I am always drawn to cemeteries.  They seem like such quiet places for a little time of reflection.  The Mexican ones are quite elaborate of course.

We were checking out this termite nest when we figured out that they make little roads up the trees to the nest.

                                                           

The brown lines are actually termite mud and droppings we think.  Very interesting!!

Nice old church along the way

Simple but beautiful inside 

A big pegota tree down.  Lots of work to saw it up.

Rhonda and Ken

Always lots of colour

Mangos

Spillway at El Colomo

El Colomo

We stopped for coffee and cinnamon buns in Bucerias.  Expensive but really good.

Our trip today was 143 kms long but it took us a little over 6 hours to complete.  Lots of it was slow going and there were lots of stops to check things out.  We had a fun day.

Home in time for sunset on the beach with our friends.  We are enjoying our time with everyone before they all head off to their northern summers.  There was a big yacht floated by us as we waited for the sun to go down.  It was about 150 in length.  Must be nice to have the money for one of them.  Come to think of it, no, I would rather be where I am right now.

Yacht

Max is always inventing ways to move his equipment

That was our day.  We haven't gone on many adventures this winter so we enjoyed this one. Good Nite!

The sun is sneaking up on the island