I’m trying really hard to update the last few days but I’m sure I will forget something!
Tuesday we packed our beach gear and headed out to take the Mismaloya/Tomalan bus to spend the day at the beach by Robin and Serges’ condo. Mismaloya is where we stayed last January so we knew the bus and area. We were surprised to see Serge pull up at the stop while we were waiting at the bus and holler out “Taxi”! We hopped in to find out that Robin had stayed at home to wait for us while she sent Serge into town to find a dentist for her. Her gold crown had popped off while she was eating her muffin poor thing! Just what everyone needs on a Mexican holiday. I don’t think I mentioned that they were supposed to fly home last Friday but Robin convinced Serge to call work and tell them that he couldn’t get back for another week. She is off work for a couple of months as she had surgery on her hand recently. Their beach was beautiful, very white silky sand, very small and very private. There were no beach vendors there, which was a nice change although they really don’t bother us at all.
Robin and Serge had brought extra snorkeling gear as their beach has some fabulous snorkeling. Gail went out and loved it. I’m not a good enough swimmer to be comfortable going out way over my head so I stayed on the beach while the three of them went out to see the beautiful coloured fish and sea life. Gail just loved it. After the beach we went to their pool and Serge went back to their condo to make lunch. We love having a cabana boy waiting on us!!! Robin had her crown glued back on in the late afternoon.
Wednesday we spend a quiet day just went to the beach for the morning and decided to take some time to recuperate. I cooked dinner at home which was nice for a change. Afterwards we walked to the Malacon to see some of the festivities. The first twelve days of December is full of activity in Mexico because the 12th is the feast day for Our Lady of Guadalupe. It’s celebrated all over the country. The big finale will be December 12th.
The next day we drove all the way north to the little village of La Peñita, which has a huge outdoor market every Thursday. It’s about an hour from Puerto Vallarta. There was also a motel/condominium conversion open house that we wanted to see but it was a piece of junk! Of course we were with Robin and Serge again. The market was very entertaining. I had a delicious cold Horchata in the market that Serge highly recommended. It was one of his mother’s specialties. It tasted like a vanilla milkshake without the milk, cost $1.50 and was like the huge big gulp size-so much that I had to pour most of it out! We bought a couple of little ceramic bowls and Robin bought a couple of silver necklaces. On the way home we stopped in a couple of other towns- Ricon de Guayabitos and San Francisco. By the time we returned to PV we were all very hungry. Serges’ cousin had taken them to a typical Mexican seafood restaurant the last time they were in town and that’s where we went.
Neither of us had ever experienced a meal like it! The location is on a very busy road, it’s open air under a palapa, plastic tables and chairs, HUGE, crowded at 4pm in the afternoon and has Mariachi players wandering through the restaurant.
The meal was FANTASTIC! As soon as we sat down we were given ceviche on a tortilla, shrimp soup, nachos and salsa and a bucket of beer. All but the beer was complimentary. Serge and I ordered surf and turf- steak and prawns, Gail had on one of combos-lobster, snapper and prawns and Robin had the prawn combo-prawns cooked three different ways. The plates were ENORMOUS!! Most of Gail and mine came home with us. After dinner we were given complimentary Kahlua and each of us an entire pineapple to take home!! The bill was $70.00 for all four of us tip included.
Back to Steve's for a while then we all came home to continue having fun. We finally made it to bed at 3:30am.
