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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Still in Mazatlan.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Yesterday was another warm day after a couple of cooler days and rain over night on Friday.  We hear they had some flooding down Rincon, Los de Marcos area and that a waterspout developed near Puerto Vallarta.  Nothing like that here just a freshening up of the dust.

Yesterday morning a Mexican painter, Hector Vari who is quite well known spent the day putting a painting of a young Basque girl and a lamb on Mannie's satellite dish.  I guess it is quite common to have paintings done on your RV or dish etc.  Mannie and Connie know the girl in the picture and she is now grown and newly married.  Mannie grew up in Elko, Nevada and is a Basque so this painting will be something special for him.  It was very interesting to see the painting take shape and the old painter just quietly worked all day until it was completed.  Quite lovely. 



Hector Vari paints.



Ramona stopped by to say hello to Eric.

Later on Sunday afternoon after a nice bake and swim on the beach we went over to Pat and Jack's for some Wii bowling.  Pat had invited quite a few people for happy hour and bowling.  Pat is a very nice lady and even though we were unsure about the bowling we didn't want to opt out and hurt her feelings.  Some of the men didn't come since " The game was on" but the woman and a few guys were happy to join in.  Actually it was quite a lot of fun and she'll probably have every one over to do it again.  I cautioned to be careful not to get "bowling butt" and everyone thought I was a little out there.  Guess what, today Sandi has "bowling butt!" 




Wii bowling.




Sandi bowling (notice the form that will get her "bowling butt!"


Connie would like everyone to "Slow Down" on the road.



Sandi's garden with her mexican tortise. (I must have one of those!)

So, today I have a meeting about the Chile Cook Off,  about what I'm not sure and Eric and Sam have gone off on a guys Harley ride north of here.  It is hot and I must now go to the beach.

Eric and Sam have returned from their ride.  They went north about 50 miles on the libre road towards Culican and then headed west to the town of  La Cruz.  There they had polla asado (roasted chicken), with cucumbers, onions and lettuce and some cervezas for lunch.  Apparently it was quite delicious.  After lunch Sam tried to get directions to the "Maxipista" in his broken Spanglish and the guy looked quite confused and finally said he spoke english.  He was from San Franciso and in La Cruz for his grandfathers funeral.   The ride back on the Maxipista was great because it is without potholes and they could head home at 110 km.  However, they did have to pay 90 pesos each at the toll booth.  No free ride for the Harleys. 

I went to my chile meeting and all the details were worked out.  Connie is the master of the signs so we all got table numbers and she has all the signage ready for the cook off.  We will not make it like the sanctioned ones where you have to cook on site but will just show up with a pot ready to go.  Should be okay.  From there the meeting degenerated into a tequilla happy hour which was a lot more fun.

Ah Mexico!

1 comment:

  1. I remember bowling butt! that was Anne's birthday I think! A long time ago... Joy

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