Let Me Take You for a Walk Downtown!!

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Mexico

Today I am going to take you on a trip down town with me just because I can.  The other night I showed you some pictures of my walk in the dark, so today I will show you the road in the daylight.  We are about 1/2 mile from our park to the downtown, winding down some narrow streets and over a bridge.  When I leave the park this is what I see.  We are in Numero Uno RV Park.   Its about a half block to the first turn to the left just past the white building. 

This is where we get on the little back alley that I showed you in the dark the other night.  Not much down other than a little carpentry shop that is home to Bruno the dog.

This is the fence of the property that Bruno guards at night.  Oh Oh!!! He has escaped!!! Be careful!!  He is a big black dog, and until we got to know him, he would jump on this fence in the dark and scare the crap out of us.  With lots of treats and seeing him often in daylight, he now knows us and would never hurt us.  He is our best friend now.

After a nuzzle and some treats, we make a left and go about a half a block to go to the school corner.

Oh look there is one of the snowballs laying by that tire.  They are the cutest little puppies and are quite scruffy.  Sue really wants to take the little female, (Sarah) home to clean her up. She always hears us coming and runs to meet us.  Today she just laid there and let me rub her belly.

And here comes Rikki!!! He is the male brother and is quite a jumper.  He is much like Archie with lots of energy.  The guy that owns the dogs said the mama got ran over shortly after they were born.

So now a quick right and down the alley between the two schools.  In the daytime it is quite noisy up here with all the kids playing.  On the right is kindergarten and on the left is elementary school.  Its about another half block up here to the lavenderia.  We will stop there on the way back to get our laundry that I dropped off yesterday.

A quick right before the lavenderia and we are at the "Stinky Bridge".  Its called the stinky bridge because there is a grey water treatment plant there on the left and it always has that sweet grey water smell.  I'm not saying why it is conveniently located on the side of the estuary.  No judgement!!!

Past the stinky bridge we have another block to go to get to the carpenteria corner.  This is the shop that Josie and his dad own.  Josie is Kenia's boyfriend.  I always have to stick my head in and his dad always yells, "Kentucky Fried Chicken!"  I guess he thinks I look like Colonel Sanders.  At the carpenteria corner we look to right and that is Kenia's El Cafecito!!

                              

Rather than go down that street, I went another block to the avenida.  I was heading to the grocery store.

A left around the corner and a couple stores down is the store.

I had to get some fruit and veggies and a couple other things.   I love to shop in this store.

That was all I needed downtown today so I headed back the way I came with a stop for my laundry.  Maria does an awesome job and it is all folded neatly and smells soooo good.  82 pesos for a bag full which is probably the equivalent of a washer load.  So 5 bucks Cnd.  

Tonight we were invited to a happy hour at Blair and Joannes.  They are renting the upstairs suite here at the park for most of the winter.  They invited the whole park to enjoy sunset and treats and the odd refreshment.  

Yes the sunset was awesome from up there.  A little different angle for a change.

I took a picture of where our MH is parked from the balcony.  We are tucked in the palm trees at the far end of this picture. The windshield of the MH is right up against the tall white building.  Our time here is slowly winding down and soon it will be time to leave.  We have just over 50 days until we are in Manitoba.  Hope to see everyone then.

SUDS Awareness Month

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Mexico

The month of March is SUDS awareness month.  Almost 8 years ago our family lost a sweet little boy, suddenly, and with no explanation.  Losing a child in itself is bad enough on a parent, but losing a child suddenly and for no reason what so ever leaves the unending unanswerable question why?  Our grandson Clayton James was probably the happiest, most bubbly kids in our entire family and his life ended way too soon.  Everyone loved him unconditionally and we think of him often.  When we bought our ice cream business, we knew that all of our grandchildren would visit often for ice cream, so we thought about Clayton not having that opportunity, so decided to call the business CJ's so he would be here in name all the time.  We will always cherish the memory of his short life.

We had an awesome surprise this morning.  I was just getting up and I heard the familiar "toot toot" of the bread truck.  Sure enough, they have decided to come twice a week now because we are such good customers.  At least I didn't have to figure out what to have for breakfast because their pineapple turnovers are to die for!!

Today Poncho came down from Los Kokos to do some things around the park.  One of the things on his list was to fix the "Evacuation Route" as Normand called it.  A couple weeks ago they trimmed all the hedge along the exterior wall and when they did, a hole in the bushes appeared.  We have had some trouble a while ago with an intruder, so it was time to fix it.  

All of us RV'ers had all sorts of ideas how to fixt it which included everything from cement posts to fencing to decorative metal stuff.  Well when Poncho arrived he looked at it and reached down into the pile of trimmings which were still there and got a few nice sized sticks and wove them through the existing branches and boom.....fixed!!!  It would be classed a Mexican fix, but a good one none the less.

Speaking of the Mexican fixes, these guys were up 3 stories fastening a sun awning to the side of the building.  The scaffold was shaking and there was only one board to walk on.  Safety harness you say?  Not likely.  But they got it done.

The festival in town that started last Friday is winding down.  Today is Shrove Tuesday and they are having a big parade for that as well as the end of festival.  We headed downtown about 5 and met up with Kenia and picked a spot on the side of the road that would be good for viewing.

The vendors starting gathering and the guys on horses were riding around.  

A little dog kept bugging Emma trying to be her best friend!!

Finally Emma got to settle down and wait with the rest of us.  Tina and her sister, Diago and Oscar joined us before the parade started.

Kenia got a cotton candy and of course had to have the old red tongue picture.

The parade was quite nice and took about and hour and a half.

After the parade we all went for supper at a neat little restaurant on the Avenida.  I had the best Enchilada's I have had in a long time.

We topped the evening off with a quick walk down to the plaza where there were great throngs of people.  Tonight is the busiest night of the festival with lots of music, food and dancing.  It wasn't long and Kenia headed out with her friend Alejandra for a night on the town.

One of the games that I did not try was the tequila game.  You throw darts and if you hit the colored part you win a bottle of tequila!!  Tequila seems to be the prize of choice at the adult games.  We had a great time tonight and hope you enjoy seeing it from my camera.  Goodnight.