11/20/11 – 11/28/11 La Paz: Well, Gina and I never made it to Wal-mart. We found a store called Chedraui that is something like a Fred Meyer. We thought we had died and gone to heaven. They had a fabulous bakery department, but we couldn’t figure out how to ‘do’ the bakery department. Gina finally noticed that people we getting a big round tray from under a counter and some tongs and going around loading up their tray with various baked goods. So we did that, then you take your tray to this counter and a lady bags and prices your baked goods. We also found some small fake Christmas trees and garlands-yay! The only thing we couldn’t find was a real ham—only pressed cubes of pork, and some grey looking ham slices. I had decided that I would make an authentic Mexican dish for my contribution to Thanksgiving instead of ham, but the next day Gina found a ham in her travels, so we had a turkey breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, roasted veggies and pumpkin pie for the Phillips parts of the meal. I brought the ham, (fresh!) fried pineapple, stuffing, and Pioneer Woman’s Dreamy Apple Pie. It was a great feast, but boy was it hot outside (mid 80’s) and even hotter inside our boats with all that cooking going on. It was a nice day though. I was missing my family, but the Phillips’ are a surrogate family for us, and we can’t think of anyone we enjoy more.
Gina, Sydney and I have been keeping up with our early morning walks into town and along the Malecon. Sydney has befriended a dog that has been following us every day-even showing up right on time at the head of the dock. She named her Lexy, because Sydney feels she’s a fancy dog and needed a fancy name.
We’ve been anxious to attend the local farmer’s market that happens each Saturday and Tuesday so we could stock up on some local produce. There was also an arts and crafts market at one of the marinas, so Gina and went to both on Saturday (the 26th). The farmers market in town was a modest affair-only about 7 or 8 tables, and not much produce, but I did buy a blouse. The arts and crafts was also pretty small, but I found some earrings and a ring
Watching the weather has been a top priority this week. We want to cross the Sea of Cortez and head over to Puerto Vallarta because both boats have people to meet, and there’s supposed to be another norther this week. Well, it didn’t actually show up until Saturday, so we decided to leave on Tuesday (the 29th) after the wave action has a chance to flatten. We’ll probably stop in Los Muertos for one night (where Terry was injured in his encounter with the mystery sea creature a few weeks ago), and then head on across to Isla Isabel or San Blas and PV. Mazatlan will probably have to wait until we back come back up to the Sea of Cortez next Spring to wait out hurricane season.
Terry and went out to dinner last night (27th) to celebrate our 36th anniversary. We’ll be in the middle of the Sea of Cortez on our actual anniversary, so off we went to Rancho Viejo for food, then a nice walk downtown, and finally a cab home. Today (28th) Gina went and got produce and eggs and other goodies so we’re ready to leave La Paz tomorrow morning at about 7am. I’m ready to get away from the marina and get back in an anchorage again. I really do like La Paz though, and will look forward to coming back.
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