Day 14

Lovely morning for a run, watched a dolphin play from our balcony, he was really putting on a good show, such fun!  Then off to the Saturday Market.  Got a yummy and HUGE orange cinnamon roll, fresh ground peanut butter, a mini ginger peach crumb pie and a couple of hand made wool chickens.

On our way home we stopped to tour the V177 condos that are for sale and just down the block from us.  We passed this place a million times last year during its construction.  Saw 5 units priced from 199,990 to 418,990. The monthly HOA is between 450 to 550.00 a month, square feet  from 537 to 1073. There are 47 units in the building all are sold except for 7. Really no ocean views from the available units. I think renting is still the best option!!!

Maybe this is more affordable, bet there is no monthly HOA!

Had lunch at a charming family run restaurant, San Lucas, free tequila shots for desert!

Walked around the neighborhoods then headed to Leys grocery store.

The people who bag groceries are not paid by the store, they make money from tips, common practice is to hand them your left over change for their service of bagging your items.

Daves new wife :)

Dinner at No Way Joses.  I finally had Chiles en Nagada, a traditional dish of meat stuffed poblano peppers with a almond cream sauce, very rich!! Once was enough!

Beautiful end to a beautiful day :)

Day 13

We had a more layed back kind of day today.  Had a morning run, breakfast on the balcony and I went across the street to chat with the gals from Spokane. 

We walked to our favorite produce stand for some fruit and veggies, stopped for lunch of pizza at Los Muertos Brewing on our way home (note I am calling it home now) they brew their own beer which is an unusual concept here.

Afternoon view from the roof top of "our home"

We took a can to join our new friends at El Rio BBQ for an afternoon of fun music, dancing and bbq ribs. What a beautiful place along the river in San Pancho.

Our group. 

Plate of ribs, brontosaurus sized!

The river views are beautiful.

Dancing to Bobby and Gilbert

Dave and Bobby (singer, flute and sax player, and did a mean air guitar on his saxiphone!) Bobby us originally from Scotland, moved to PV after his wife passed away. Bobby appears to be a free spirtit type of guy! I am guessing he never wears shoes ever!!

Bobby with Angus and Beverly, they are from Canada and here for 4 months, they seemed much too young to be able to do that.

Debbie and Nick who invited us, also staying at Villa Olivia.

On our way to catch the bus home, we had a very fun afternoon!  Debbie and Nick invited us to join again next week and said they would look out after us, Mom, Debbie and Laura, what do you think!!!!!

Day 12

Our adventure today took us to Sayulita, a cute surfing town. We have to take 2 buses to get there, first bus to Walmart, the 6.5 peso bus, then we catch a bus at Walmart, 35 pesos (2.35 US), while it is inexpensive way to get there is does take a while, from Walmart it was exactly 1 hour 15 minutes.

We get off the bus and cross the bridge into the town of Sayulita.

Beach restaurant we choose.

Yummy shrimp tacos and big margarita, total for lunch of  2 plates of shrimp tacos, 2 margaritas, 1 beer and a 20% tip, 19.00 US dollars! 

This woman was getting a mud massage right behind us, and it appeared she was getting massaged everywhere!!! Note no top!!! This would not happen in PV!

While others surf we float!

Had to take a picture of her nails! Seahawks fan from Seattle :)

Typical Sayulita transportation.

Swing at a bar.

Waiting at the bus stop to head home.

Another beautiful from our balcony.

Along the malecon

Went to La Bogeduita after dinner to listen to Cuban music and watch the salsa dancers, wish we could dance like that!  We didn't catch on from the two lessons we took years ago!

Day 11

Our morning view, drinking coffee and having breakfast. I could really get used to this :)

We missed the Mardi Gras parade last night :( bummer, guess we have to come back next year for it!

Dave made a purchase from Willy on the beach today, Willy actually hand carved and paints these puppets!We had lunch on the beach at our favorite place, we had heard about Charlie the tee shirt vendor who plays cribbage, there he was right in front of us playing cribbage with some Canadians (just a guess!!) he played in a cribbage tournament with our neighbors the other day and won!

The above pictures are just scenes from a day at the beach. Vendors selling fish on a stick, candy, fruit, styrofoam looking snacks, foot massages, and wares of all kinds.

We took a bus to Pitillal to try and find that special tequila that Dave is on a search for.  No luck, but we did find ourselves at this quaint church and went in to be marked by the cross!  I remember a few years ago we were in PV on Ash Wednesday and went to Our Lady of Guadalajara to receive the ashes.

On our way home we got off the bus at Costco, still in search of this special tequila, no luck, but kind of fun to go into a Mexican Costco, and as luck would have it we hit sample time :)We had a lovely and tasty dinner at Archie's Wok, the original Archie was John Hustons chef, now as I understand it the restaurant is still ran by family members.