Time to go exploring

The last couple of days have been very social for us.

New Year's Day we had breakfast with Reg and Phoebe before they caught their plane to Toronto. Brrr! We have been looking in on Three Sheets while they have been away.

Monday was a trip to Telcel to buy another month's worth of internet time. Luckily it did not take three hours but it was about half of that. So now we will have internet if we do not have wireless and there is cell coverage. Of course we still have email over our HF radio.

Tuesday we had Heidi and Joe of SV Huck over for dinner. It was so warm inside the boat we ate in the cockpit. There was plenty of conversation and laughing. We first met Heidi and Joe as we pulled into our slip at Cabrillo Isle Marina in San Diego. They were also on the Baja Ha-Ha with us.

Wednesday, Keith and Susan of C'est La Vie were kind enough to take us to Costco. We were able to stock up on some essentials such as chocolate, chicken, paper towels, coke, etc.

Keith and Susan were also on the Baja Ha-Ha in 2001 and the Pacific Puddle Jump in 2002 with us. They now keep their boat at Paradise Village all year long and spend the winter here and the rest of the time up in the Sacramento area.

Today they drove us out to Punta de Mita and we had lunch at Si Senor, a great restaurant on the beach that is part of a small hotel and patrons of the restaurant may also use the pool. It has a great view as well as a garden entry. It was a little different being on shore as we have only anchored at Punta de Mita before. We started lunch with guacamole and salsa with chips that they made right at our table. Rich and I split an order of coconut shrimp with mango sauce while Keith and Susan had chicken tacos. Their yellow labrado, Sadie, enjoyed chasing her ball on the beach and checking out all of the wonderful smells. It was a great afternoon and we will definitely have to go there again.

Upon returning to Paradise Village, Rich and I picked up our dingy with the new chaps, covers for the tubes. Camelia and her crew did a great job. The idea is to use this cover to protect the dingy from the ultraviolet rays of the sun and extend it's life. We hope it works. It will also be a lot easier to sit on the dingy in the hot sun this summer in the Sea of Cortez with this cover.

Tomorrow we plan to say good bye to Paradise Village and head south for a while. We will be back at the end of February for the Pacific Puddle Jump reunion.

Adios