Pogo spent the morning on the phone with Skip, our neighbor, Mark, his friend and Shaun, our son…..Skip, who keeps an eye on the house for us while we are away, had been to our house the day before and had discovered that the water was not running in the laundry room so he turned … More Mexico – Day 12

Today we had our first little adventure if you can call it that.  At least we discovered a few new villages.  We are thinking at some point to rent a place in February for a few nights with our friends and their friends.  I had found a beautiful hacienda through VRBO in Chacala, a village … More Mexico – Day 11

We walked to La Isla for breakfast.  We shared a fruit platter and avocado toasts with poached eggs.  We haven’t had a bad meal there so far.  They now have 2 parrots in a big cage.  When we walked by them, one of them said Hola! We continued our walk to Starbucks and stopped at … More Mexico – Day 10

After breakfast, we decided to go to Bucerias on our quest to find cocktail sauce. We had bought cooked shrimp at Costco for the purpose of having shrimp cocktail but so far had not found any. Pogo posted a request on Facebook and people gave us a few places to check. The one in Bucerias … More Mexico – Day 9

We went to Starbucks. On the way back, we saw 4 painters just sitting on rope harness hanging from the top of the hotel next door, painting the walls. They were swinging from one side to another. Wish I could post a video. Crazy stuff! We went to La Isla for lunch as Gabriella had … More Mexico – Day 8

After breakfast we sat for a few hours reading and napping by the ocean. Mario and Josée had gone to the Tuesday market behind the hospital and unfortunately there was just food and no artisans so we decided not to go. We went next door for lunch to find out they are closed on Tuesdays.. … More Mexico – Day 7

Today was a lazy day between the beach and balconville. I did some laundry and organized the condo a little better.  From the balcony we had noticed fish jumping up just behind the waves. Pogo went to the beach with his drone and got amazing footage of a huge school of fish giving us a … More Mexico – Day 6

Being Sunday, we decided to leave early to go to the La Cruz market before it got busy. We first stop at the La Cruz Inn for breakfast.  They didn’t have any vendors in the center of town but still had a few Christmas decorations.  We walked towards the market following the waterfront and were … More Mexico – Day 5

We finally walked to Starbucks, “Pancho” ordered our coffees and we sat outside to drink them. Routine is back! We walked inside the mall to see if there was anything new and the answer was no.  While walking we saw new hotels and condos and more being built.  We rediscovered the beach and spent the … More Mexico – Day 4

We slept like babies and took it easy until around 9am.  We decided to go see our friends at La Isla for breakfast. Gabriella was there and was so happy to see us, as we were to see her. We caught up until our delicious breakfasts arrived.  We then went to do a big grocery … More Mexico – Day 3