Ken and Rhonda Arrive

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

Today we are picking up some more friends from the airport and they will be staying with us for 3 months.  Ken and Rhonda arrive today about 3 pm on a flight from Calgary.  They actually started their trip in Saskatoon at (Like Kevin says) silly o'clock.  Before we picked them up we had a couple hours to kill so we stopped at Sam's Club to pick up a couple things.  We were hungry so we ordered some food from the food place outside the store.  When we gave our order I looked around and there was only the girl taking the orders and another girl in the whole kitchen.  Neither one of them was interested in doing any of the food stuff, but rather just played on their phones.  I kept watching and nothing was happening.  We were going to leave but after about 30 minutes 3 more ladies showed up and things started to fire up.  We think they all were on lunch break.  Anyway, after about and hour we got our hamburger and the chicken fingers Sue ordered turned into a hot dog.  We were not about to send it back so she ate it anyway.

    

I did run into a bit of a squabble as we waited in line.  A big ole 300 lb. entitled type guy in tight speedo shorts who is probably a used car salesman in Canada, ordered about 4 people after us.  After about 20 minutes, he and his big ole buddy, who was probably the finance guy for the sketchy used car dealership came up to the pickup window and started really being ignorant to the little lady there.  She did not speak English and he didn't speak much of it either, but he was loud and boisterous and waving the arms with the big Rolex, and the lady caved and got them their meal.  Well I puffed out my chest, (It was actually my stomach) and marched up beside him and asked him why he thought he deserved his meal before the 3 Mexicans and us?  His eyes got big and he got all aggressive and he said he had an appointment and told me to **ck off!!  I stayed right in his face (hope I had bad breath) and told him that was not a very nice thing to do especially to the Mexicans but he wasn't having it.  I'm sure I could have took him out but I didn't want to hurt him.  Just an ignorant man!!  Sue had a little go at him as well and he just told her to **ck off as well.  There are sure some bitter and ignorant people in this world and they must hate waking up in a bad mood all the time.   Well anyway that kinda make our 2 hours extra a lot shorter.  We did have a little wait at the airport but it was a nice day so we didn't mind.

Once we had rescued Ken and Rhonda we made a stop at La Cromer.  I had never been in there before and it is quite interesting.  You grab a cart on the bottom floor and go up this escalator with it to the next floor. There is a magnet that holds your cart solid on the incline both going up and going down.  The girls made like ours was on a runaway.  

The store was actually quite large inside and has all of the things the gringos would ever want.  The prices are not great but what the heck.  It had a very interesting fish market and a great big fish in the middle of the display.  I still like our fish back in La Penita.

By the time we got done shopping we had a mean hunger on.  Now I now you should not go shopping on an empty stomach but we did.  We actually restrained ourselves quite well.  So we decided on a little restaurant in Bucerias but as we pulled up, they were putting the tables away so we decided to head on down the road to Sayulita.  Good choice!!  We found a neat little sidewalk restaurant that had really great food and spent an hour or so chatting and eating.  It was a good place for Rhonda and Kens first Mexican supper.

We got back to the park and the kids (Jeff and Fany) had fixed up the welcome sign for them.  We didn't do it earlier because it was raining.  Thanks for doing it guys.   Welcome to the your winter paradise!!

We finished the night with Archie watching a movie with us.  Little bum is normally at the neighbours but tonight he stayed home.  Good Nite!!