Supper out

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita RV Park, La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico
NEXT DESTINATION? We are here for a while

We did normal things all day long today.  If I put pictures of our day here you would be bored silly.  We swam in the pool, did grocery shopping, watched some whales, and just generally lived life.  Around 4 o'clock George and Henny who were our neighbours in the RV Park came to spend the evening with us.  We sat on our patio for a while and then moved down to the palapa.  There is always something interesting going on, on the ocean.  We saw some fishermen getting their nets ready for tonight's fishing and a few fish jumping in the water in front of us.

Just a Regular day

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita RV Park, La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico
NEXT DESTINATION? We are here for a while

We headed back downtown to the doctors again today to let him check me out again.  My ear has gotten better just in one day so everyone is happy.  We asked him how much for the appointment and he said nothing!!  We did leave him a little tip.  After that we went wandering on the hilly side of town.  It is a poorer end of town with lots of overrun properties but so typically Mexican.  The streets are cobblestone from many years ago and have to be like that because when it rains, the water rushes down the streets and would wash them away if not for the stones.

More Exciting Things.

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita RV Park, La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico
NEXT DESTINATION? We are here for a while

I guess I should tell a little story here.  You have probably noticed that Kenia has been with us a lot down here.  She is a young lady who was a waitress at the RV park when we arrived in La Penita and she worked for her aunt Cecie.  When we first met her we saw a young ambitious lady who is coming to that critical fork in the road where she will have to decide which way to go.  She is single with no kids which is good because the average age of motherhood here is 15 I am told.  She knows a bit of English but needs to know more to get a good job.  She has been to baking school and is talented in that field, but her ambition is to work in emergency services as a paramedic.  That requires her to take more education and learn more English.  Now she could do that here in Mexico and will probably take her medical education here, but in the meantime we have offered to bring her to Canada for the summer and immerse her in some English culture.  So before she can come, she has to have a passport which is tricky because she is 17 and does not live with her parents. So we have had to chase down signatures from her parents allowing her to apply which has finally happened.  So today we went to complete the paperwork needed for the passport.  She was told today that she only needs a notary public to endorse the mother and fathers signatures and she will get her passport.  We are pretty excited to see how hard she has worked to make all of this happen.  We are confident she will fit in well in Canada this summer and hopefully learn and see lots of different things.

Friends come for Supper

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita RV Park, La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico
NEXT DESTINATION? We are here for a while

I'm going to give you a little more of a tour of our new yard.  We are amazed at how much cooler it is here with the breeze that comes off the ocean almost continually.   We are actually closer to the pool than we were at the last park, and we are certainly are closer to the ocean.  And there is lots of green grass for Charlie to walk on with his tender feet.

Carnival Day

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita RV Park, La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico
NEXT DESTINATION? We are here for a while

Today was the last day of the Carnival here in La Penita so we all decided to go see the parade again.  It was supposed to be bigger than the one last week, and it was, but it was as slow as molasses in January.  When we got down town about 4:30 or so the streets were blocked off and the cars were mostly gone.