2-08-09
Well, another Sunday has arrived and all is peaceful in Paradise. Warren is playing his “Sunday morning music” and we are drifting the morning away staring out at the birds and the breeze.
Sean and Ellie just headed in to town for breakfast at Casa Café; Heather and Robb are taking a walk on the beach and will probably have breakfast down there. Both sets of kids fly out for home this afternoon and have had a good vacation. Sean didn’t let his shoulder injury get in the way of any fun he intended to have! He, Ellie and Warren went fishing as planned and had a wonderful day, including bringing home a nice, fat tuna for our dinner! Robb spent a couple of days under the weather, but is out and about and feeling fine now. He was pretty sick for awhile.
Heather and I had a fantastic “girl day” while the fishermen were away and Robb was sleeping. We shopped and lunched and gabbed and had lots of fun. We both managed some fun purchases. The peso continues to decline in value here, which is not good for the locals and the economy, but is very good for shopping.
Last night we all went for a nice dinner for their last night here. We went up the hill to a place called La Escollera and had a great dinner while we watched the sun set on Zihuatenejo Bay - a beautiful view. All our dinners were yummy and we had some great laughs. At home we had a fresh chocolate flan cake waiting from our favorite bakery! So we had a bit of a swim and some dessert and wound down their last full day.
Warren and I have this next week by ourselves here in the big house. We plan to do a lot of nothing. However, our good friends Vera and Richie will fly in this evening from New Jersey for the next month, and Vera and I will have lots to catch up on. Their son and his girlfriend arrived from Kentucky a couple of days ago; I haven’t been able to catch up with them yet, but they met Sean, Ellie, Heather and Robb on the bus to town yesterday morning. Ellie figured out who they were so they got to meet and chat. Small world. Too bad all the kids didn’t have more time to hang out and get to know each other, as Ellie said they would have hit it off and had a good time.
Our Alfredo (our caretaker at the house) has been ill the last few days with a bad cough and congestion. He took the day off yesterday to go get a shot and came back with a dramatic tale of getting the shot in his hip by his “el sposa” (wife). Evidently they just gave him several syringes with medicine and his wife gives him a shot a day for 3 days. He was complaining last night of a sore butt! But he still managed to sit down on it and have a piece of flan cake with us last night. He’s just headed home this morning for the day. He usually takes at least a half day off on Sundays, as it is family day. Sunday is definitely a day of rest for the Mexican people.
So we are still not ready to come home and are officially at our halfway point now. Hopefully spring is hitting the northwest and Mother Nature will be in a more gentle mood when we arrive home. Miss you all – thanks for keeping in touch.
Love, Judy

I will add a little to the blog also. The fishing trip was more of a good boat ride. We went out with David, who owns the panga that we went in. His nephew was with us also. He was about 12. We went out of Zihuatanejo bay to the south clear to Berra de Potisi, which is probably over 15 miles. We fished around some big rock islands down there. The islands are all white. I guess hundreds of years of bird roost can do that to them. We saw sea turtles, some black dolphins and what appeared to be a large grey whale and calf. They were jumping out of the water. It was a great show. I got to see a lot of the coast line that you don’t see from the beach area. There was lots of fish jumping out there, but they just weren’t biting. We did manage to get a black tuna about 7 pounds and a small groper.
Like Judy said, we will be on our own this week. It will be quiet, but that will be fine for a week.
Warren
Zihuatanejo bay and downtown area from La Escollera.

As you can see, we continue to suffer through our days and evenings here.

Ellie, Sean, Robb, and Heather. Everyone has enjoyed the pool.

Sean with the catch of the day. A black tuna.