Cerritos Resort for Ladies Lunch and a Beach Walk

Many people are packing up in preparation for heading home including us.  We’ll start heading north on Saturday.  Today it was my last ladies lunch of the season.  Ruth had suggested that we eat at the restaurant that is in Cerritos resort where she stays for the winter.  Todays venue was only a hop, skip and a jump north of us and it would have been an easy walk if I hadn’t been so busy this morning.  We’re getting things cleaned up and packed up so it had already been a busy morning.  I’d walked at 6:30 and then come back to wash the truck before I went grocery shopping and got our water bottles filled.   All I had time for was a quick shower and then off to lunch. 

We hopped into pulmonias and were delivered to the resort in short order.  Some of us walked in from the front gate and some were delivered right to the door. 

It’s been hugely windy over the last couple of days but today it’s not quite so bad.  We opted to sit outside in the sunshine where it was a little warmer. 

A beautiful day and Ruth obviously finds something really funny. 

This restaurant is not fancy and is only open for breakfast and lunch.  This is my fish fingers, chips and a side salad.  The fingers were quite crunchy and it took me a while to figure out I was eating chicken!  Pat had ordered chicken and she was eating my fish and she didn’t notice either.  In the end I only ate about half of the chicken but I did finish up the nice salad. 

It was nice and fresh.

Connie and Sharen had enchiladas suizas….very good.

I think it was Marilyn who had the tacos.

Ruth had a chicken caesar.

The food was decent, the service was good and the prices reasonable.  Really nice to have a restaurant right in your complex.  When we first started staying in Las Jaibas we also had a small restaurant in our park called Arnoldo’s.  After the downturn in the USA economy in 2008 there weren’t enough RVers to keep the restaurant open and Arnoldo moved to another location.  Many people still go and eat breakfast at his restaurant.

This is a good sized restaurant with an outdoor patio, an open air covered section as well as a closed in area.  Something for any weather condition.

Looking south.

When lunch was done Marilyn and I decided to walk the beach home.  The tide was going out and it was a lovely day for a beach walk.

Looking north to the Riu and Playa Bruja where the surfers hang out.  

The beach is wide open and flat at the north end.  Marilyn and I are walking down as far as where you can see the two towers close together.

When we got about half way the sandstone started to appear.  When the surf and swell has been large the rocks get uncovered.  Earlier in the season we couldn’t see them at all.

         

            A nice perspective don’t you think!

This Dad wasgiving junior a free ride.  A little bit later Mom showed up with the other child on her shoulders.

 

Really interesting when you get up close.

          

 

We’re just in front of the Escondido tower which is across the street from the RV park and we’ve never seen these rocks before.  The sand is so eroded where we usually sit in the afternoon there is hardly any beach left at all. 

I think this is part of the old wall that was in front of the Torres resort where we sit.   When there was a swell from a hurricane a few years ago they lost their wall and had to build a new one.  You can’t fight mother nature!

That’s the beach road that we come down most afternoons and now there is a huge drop off in front of it.  I’ll bet by the time we come back in November it will be smooth and flat again. 

Heading up the beach road and Marilyn wanted to stop and take a picture of the parasailing guy’s car.  There isn’t much left of it.  He’s been packing the equipment to the beach in this car since we first started coming to Mazatlan.

Note the California plate that was valid until 2003!  Who says you need insurance here.

One day there will just be a pile of rust on the road!

A nice ladies lunch and a good beach walk….what more can you ask for.