Week in a nutshell:
We were trying to stay quiet this week so we would be rested up for the upcoming visit of our friends Tom & Yvonne. We were half successful in this endeavor :--) as there is always something that comes up.
On Wed. night there was a birthday party at Philo’s for a 92-year old former cruiser who “swallowed the anchor” here and is now resident of Puerto Vallarta. “Capt. Ron” is what he goes by. He came down here in the 1970’s on a boat and has been living here ever since. He is now living on land, of course. He has done a lot of work raising support for the single moms in the area. Anyway, we wanted to meet him because we’ve been hearing him on the radio every morning and he’s quite a character. So we went to Philo’s for dinner with Bob & Sherry and Brenda & Bill. Well, Ron didn’t show up….. We were all worried about him, of course, and we found out the next day that he had a bad case of diarrhea and was unable to come out. At any rate, Philo called me up to sing with him and I got to sing a couple songs plus backup vocals on a couple songs.
On Thurs. there was supposed to be a party at Huanacaxtle Café for a boater that was heading North, but the location must have changed, because no one showed up at the Café. We went with Bob & Sherry and Karen, from the boat “Solitary Bird”. Since no one showed up, we went to dinner at a new sidewalk restaurant and had a FABULOUS and inexpensive meal. Bob wanted to play his mandolin, so we went to Philo’s again. Yes…… was asked to sing yet again.
We stayed out at anchor with the exception of going to Bucerias to get my FM3 finalized on Thursday and to get my FM3 card on Friday. Yaaay! Finally got it!
Saturday we took Journey to Paradise Village Marina and did some work both Sat. & Sun. on cleaning both her and the bottom of the dinghy.
Tom & Yvonne arrived on Saturday and spent Sunday acclimating to the time zone and their resort.
We got together with Tom & Yvonne on Monday to go to the Romantic Zone of Puerto Vallarta. They met us here at the Paradise Village Marina, Vallarta Yacht Club for breakfast and mimosa’s. Then we took a water taxi over to the Romantic Zone and walked through the area. Unfortunately the city was hosting an economic summit with a lot of world dignitaries attending (including Hillary Clinton) so much of the Malecon was barricaded off and there was VERY tight security everywhere. We had a pleasant time though and a wet ride back to the Marina. We went over to their resort so we could see it, sign in as guests for the week and have dinner. A very pleasant day and evening! We are very happy to see our friends!
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