Saturday, 11 January 2025

Nothing

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

An absolute do nothing day today.  Had a walk with Archie down the beach and then a long nap.  It was cloudy, cool and a bit of a breeze so that was a good excuse to just stay inside.  


I stuck my nose out just before supper to catch a pretty sunset.  Good Nite!!


Today's weather

Mostly cloudy. 23 / 19 °C
Humidity: 75%. Wind: 4 mph  from Southwest

Friday, 10 January 2025

A Trip to the Hot Tubs

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

Our day started out with Max at our house watching the weenie show.  He comes and climbs up on the "magic bed" and eats crackers and pickles and watches cartoons most mornings.  If you have every watched any of this show, the little jingle that goes along with it gets in your head and won't leave.  


Today we have planned to go to the hot pools up in the mountains.  It is quite a drive up there so we headed out about 10 am.  They have actually fixed the road a lot so the drive is not as bumpy any more.  We had Ken and Rhonda in our car and Jeff, Fany, Roxanne and Max were in there truck, followed by John and Lauren running tail gun.  Its about and hour to do the 32 kms to there.


So for anyone with the "weenie" song in their heads, this sign we passed indicating the name of a little Pueblo, will get you singing a new song in your head.  Yup, that's the name of the pueblo!!!


The hot tubs were amazing as usual.  Its a great way to spend a few hours with friends.  It was the perfect day for it because it was overcast and not that hot.  The water for the tubs is taken direct from the mountain.  I'm guessing around 100F.








Lauren, Fany and Roxanne got the face mud treatment.  We were kidding them that it was just mud from the road with a little horse turd mixed in.  It was fun to do and only cost 50 pesos.



Jeff checked for the smell of horse poo just in case!!!

You ever wonder why the steak is a wee bit tough, these old Brama Bulls are pretty knarly lookin.  I can only imagine meeting one of these on a dark road when you are dressed in red.  


I headed downtown later to grab some supper.  I had Melanesia de Pollo.  Breaded fried chicken breast cut thin, with frijoles, papas fritas, rice, ensalada and tortilla's.  A full meal deal for 110 pesos.  That's like 8 bucks Cnd.

Home in time to head back down town for another bionico.  I better watch it or I will be having a growing spurt!!!  They are sooooo good.


And my Bionico

    



Today's weather

Mostly cloudy. 23 / 19 °C
Humidity: 69%. Wind: 4 mph  from Southwest



Thursday, 9 January 2025

To Market, To Market

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

The morning turned out to be quite pleasant.  The current winter weather (24C) weather we are having has us kinda in the doldrums.  All the people from BC are saying they could have stayed home if this is the weather we get.  The forecast says it will be like this for a week probably.  Anyhow, this morning had some sun and cloud and the market was happening the same as every Thursday.  And every Thursday I say I will not bother going next week, and every week I go!!  Lots of vendors and people this week, so I pushed and shoved my way to the taco stand.  Jeff and Fany and Roxanne joined me for Dorado Taco's de Birria.  They were every bit as good as they were last week.

crispy pig skin cracklins

Popular taco stand

Roxanne adding to the cache of goodies


Jeff protecting the purchases.  He was daring this lady to touch them.

When we got home, Roxanne and Jeff decided to go in the ocean for a swim.  The wind had risen a bit and the visibility in the water was not that good, so they couldn't see a shark if it was swimming near them!!  They said they never saw a shark at all until...........


She got quite a reaction from everyone when she came back from the ocean.  If you look at the previous picture you can see that she has dyed her hair bright pink or red and it just hasn't set yet so it all came out.  After that the wind got up even more and the afternoon was quite miserable for La Penita standards.  I am only whining a wee bit.  



I finished the evening off visiting with Kenia over a Bionico.  She does a nice job of preparing them from fresh fruit.  They are an awesome dessert to have before going home for a nice cup of tea as a night cap.   Good Nite!!




Today's weather

Cloudy with Light Rain 25 / 20 °C
Humidity: 82%. Wind: 5 - 15mph  from Northwest

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

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!!



27 / 21 °C
Mostly cloudy.
Humidity:53%
Barometer:29.97 "Hg
NNE
Wind:4.971 mph



Tuesday, 7 January 2025

The Beach Gets Washed

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

Today the ocean was in a different mood.  Although the waves were not super large, it was sending waves way up the beach and washing the beach off real good.  The sea glass hunters will be happy.




The rest of the day was eat snooze, visit and just kinda hang around.  Then it was bed time. Good Nite!!


24 / 18 °C
Mostly cloudy
Humidity:87%
Barometer:30.01 "Hg
Light Wind