Fell asleep pretty quickly last night and slept till 12 midnight, then 3, then 545 am woo woo. That worked out to almost 9 and a half hours of sleep. Sooo good. It is so quiet here when the dogs are not barking and the trucks stop roaring past the house at what seems like great speed. Very quiet.
Got up made my tea and took pictures around the house and of the birds in the tree by the upstairs patio. downloaded them, adjusted and exposed them and then uploaded them to Facebook so that everyone in Edmonton could be jealous of me. No not jealous, just to share in my fun from their wintry locations.
After we watered the plants indoors and out we got our water bottled changed. They, the water changing people, drive around with loudspeakers on their trucks announcing….well, we are not really sure what they are announcing but it must have something to do with water. We put the empty water bottle on the stairs so they can see it and they bring in a new one put it on the water dispenser and take away the empty bottle. 20 pesos and a tip. Easy peasy.
Made bracelets till after lunch which was a smoothie made by Linda, Very good.
I slathered myself with sunscreen SPF 55 and Diane and I headed off to the pool at the Mazatlan Inn via the beach with some wave jumping and shell collecting activities planned for along the way. To get tot the beach is only about three blocks of residential streets, then across a very busy road and down an access road beside the D'oro hotel. We saw a black hummingbird but did not get a photo, to fast. Another gorgeous day in paradise. Perfect weather really, I can see now why people love to come here.
There was this little bird, a plover or sand piper or something, all alone following the waves. I had seen it yesterday too all alone. I thought that they were flocking birds but this one must have lost his flock or been injured or maybe not. Very nice to see though.. should I name him?
Collected many kinds of shells though mostly broken and jumped a few waves. We wandered past the hotel with the pool by quite a distance and just before we turned around to head back I saw a fish in the water. It was quite large, maybe the size of a skinny football and it was following the shore in this little area where some rocks had carved out a deeper section in the sand like a miniature lagoon. I was pretty excited to see a wild tropical fish and thought boy you should get out of here cause all these people here (except for me) want eat you.
Headed back to the pool hotel, The mazatlan Inn, for the happy hour, two for the price of one. I did go for a dip in the pool and ordered my first Margarita, strawberry, then sat on a chaise lounger chair soaking in the rays. There were a lot of birds flying around the beach. Pelicans, frigates, gulls and pigeons, some kind of hawk things, maybe buzzards, I don’t know… lots of different kinds of birds. Very nice. coconut trees with coconuts in them. felt a little leary to b sitting underneath them as one might fall on my head and kill me but not Diane said they are vey safe and try not to kill the tourists with falling coconuts. they have to prune the ripe ones out so that they don't fall.
One of the things that we want to find is an english bird book. around 5ish we headed back to the house via the beach (saw a little blue jelly fish washed up and waiting for a wave to take him back out to sea) and some more shops that Diane wanted to show me; the bookstore which was closed, Mary's burger stand which is very good ( my granddaughters name is Mary and we will go there on another night for dinner) and the supermarket, which is tinier than our corner stores ( I picked up a small can of peas for the vegetarian paella as we had forgotten to get them at the mega). By the time we got home it was 530ish. Uploaded and downloaded photos. Linda couldn’t wait for us so grabbed a sandwich and headed back up stairs. She is supposed to stay in bed for a week, poor thing.
I made vegetarian paella for dinner and Diane cooked their chicken. We ate around 7 with a nice red malbec wine. After dinner we went for walk down to block buster which seemed farther away when we were walking to it. Our landmark for almost everything is the Dairy queen. There is only one in Mazatlan and we live just around the corner from it so the Block Buster store is about 6 blocks away from the DQ. All the sidewalks in Mazatlan are being fixed or are needing to be fixed it seems. Walking anywhere is like running an obstacle course, but we made it there, picked up a movie t"he Delivery Man" with Vince vaughn and made it back alive. I was still full from supper but felt better for the walk. Hit the sack around 10 and slept like a baby. Woke up once and fell right back to sleep. Every night there is a train whistle way off in the distance. During the day, if it does go by, you can’t hear it for all the noise of the daily traffic but at night when it is so quite it is lovely.
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