March 12 to 19, 2008; life in San carlos

MAR.   12,  Wednesday

 

Had a splitting headache this morning and an upset stomach so stuck around the house and slept mostly.  Never figured out from what!?

 

 

MAR.   13, Thursday

 

We went cycling this morning and ended up at "the Lot".  Visited for a while and decided to go golfing with Val and Craig this afternoon.  Feeling much better as you can see

 

 

MAR.   14,  Friday

 

Val went to the library with the girls in the a.m. and to the hairstylist in the afternoon.  Cathy came over later and Val and her went for a walk with the dogs on the beach.

The days are getting longer and much warmer although this strong wind persist every afternoon.  This is the worse I've seen here.  Even the evening are getting warmer; we can sit outside after the sun goes down and still feel comfortable

 

 

MAR.   15,  Saturday

 

It was time to go to Guaymas today for groceries.  We stopped for lunch at one of our favourite restaurant and I had the truck washed while we ate.

Came home and put the groceries away and went to "the Lot" for a visit.  The girls went for a walk and the boys chatted and had a cerveza or two.

 

 

MAR.   16,  Sunday

 

Wind picked up again overnight and it is much cooler this morning.  The temperature only reached the mid 60's.  We hear that it snowed in Nogales!?  WOW!  Val did some mending today and wrote some e-mails

 

 

MAR.   17,  Monday

 

Met Craig and Cathy for a kayak outing.  It is their anniversary today.  We went to "Shangri-la", a little beach on the far side of San Carlos, however when we got there, the wind picked up and it began to rain so we decided to postpone to tomorrow.  We all went to Rosa Cantina and had breakfast.  While there, Steve, Linda, Tim and Kim walked in and joined us.

In the afternoon, I took my tripod to the welder and had the legs straighten.  Also had a couple addition put on the tailgate to ease the opening of the locks.

It became quite windy again in the afternoon so the famous Linda's "St-Patrick traditional dinner" was postponed to tomorrow.

 

MAR.   18,  Tuesday

 

Got up to a calm day so we went kayaking.  Met the Johnston's and Kim at the same beach again and this time we went out in the Bay.  We kayaked through two big holes in the rocks and we paddled to the main Bay and back.

Afterwards we went for lunch at the "Palapa", a new restaurant opened on the beach.  Tim was supposed to meet us but didn't show up.  Found out later that he was quite sick with an unknown bug.

We had the famous dinner with everyone at the Lot.  It was delicious as always.  The dinner consisted of corned beef brought down from the U.S., cooked cabbage, carrots and corn, potatoes and two different salads.  Tammy made a chocolate cake which we all enjoyed afterwards.  Tim was still sick so he stayed in his rig but did enjoy a good dinner too.

In the evening we had a fire and it finally all came to an end around 9 p.m.  A good day indeed.

 

 

MAR   19,  Wednesday.

 

Today was wash day for the rig.  We are leaving next Tuesday so getting everything washed.  Also had a welder come out and fix my bike rack so that it doesn't rock so much.  I also wanted to rearranged the battery compartment but he couldn't do it.  Val went for her walk with Marg, a lady here in the park and I read.  We had happy hour with our group here in the park.  It was sunny and very warm today and stayed on into the evening which was nice.

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