On Sunday, 2/26 we picked up Sarah. She was nice enough to bring down some items we had ordered from the States such as a new pivoting wrench for tightening the tie downs at the mast, Dyneema loops for the lifelines, our repaired night vision monocular and a new GSM wireless router. She also brought down a new pair of waterproof binoculars, a gift from our friend Dan Sego. I think that when he joined us on the Baja Ha-Ha, he got so frustrated with our old pair that he decided we need new ones. We are excited about trying them out. Thank you Dan and Madeline! Sarah also brought us some new dvds and gave us each an iTunes card. Yippee, thank you Sarah!
Tuesday, 2/28, we went to Costco with Adam and Cindi of SV Bravo to pick up a few items. They were doing some provisioning before heading south. They plan to spend this next hurricane season in Ecuador. While the Costco here at Puerto Vallarta is much the same as a typical Costco in the States, you could tell this one was different as it was handing out samples of Corona and Miller Lite beer.
In the afternoon we picked up Jesse and Rae at the airport. They brought us some books to read, yay! plus pictures and videos of the wedding, YAY! That evening we enjoyed a dinner at Eva’s Brick House Restaurant next to the marina. Eva is originally from Peru, so we asked her a few questions about staying there. The barbeque ribs were tasty. Rich and Jesse sampled some tequila from an old barrel, a specialty of the house.
Dinner at Eva's Brickhouse at La Cruz
Wednesday and Thursday we went to Paradise Village to spend some time on the beach. Jesse and Sarah remember this from when we stayed at the marina here 10 years ago. It was a little different this time as they were also able to order beer and mixed drinks as they sat in beach chairs on the sand looking out at the ocean.
While they were here we also participated in a 10th year reunion of our Pacific Puddle Jump in 2002, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I will write about that in another blog entry.
Saturday night we had dinner together on the boat. Rich fixed a lamb ragu, a boat favorite.
Sarah, Jesse and Rae
We went to the Sunday market. Sarah and Rae bought a few souvenirs and gifts for friends. Rich and I stopped and sampled some of the local fare and picked up some baked goods. In the afternoon we took Sarah to the airport. After she passed security we waited for Heidi and Joe of SV Huck to arrive from San Francisco and gave them a ride back to Paradise Village.
Monday after a little excitement about our engine mechanic (more later in another blog post), and breakfast we were off to the airport again to drop off Jesse and Rae.
The boat is empty without our kids and we miss them already. We are glad they could take time off from work and join us even if it was only for just a week. Now we are back to projects and preparing to have the new engine installed.
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