Burch's Arrive

Today is Beth’s last day in Melaque. It is always a quiet time on the day friends depart, it is sad to see them go. Beth’s taxi arrived exactly on time and we hugged good by. We will see her again sometime this year. Maybe someday we can travel down to Florida and visit; she lives in an area we have always wanted to explore.

Within an hour or so of Beth driving off in her taxi, we were in the pool playing volleyball. The games are getting very competitive and we are able to keep long rallies going before a point is scored. Pool volleyball has some very fun rules that you have to learn to play well. First and foremost, “don’t set”. Setting just throws everything off and everyone just smacks the ball over the net anyway. Then if you hit the ball into the net, you can hit it again if you can. That means you can hit the net as many time as you want to gain control of the ball to either pass it (this is usually done out of desperation because passing is basically setting and you know about that) or bump it over the net. By now you understand that there are as many hits allowed per side as you need, until you get it over the net or it goes out of play. No double hitting is allowed. If a ball comes to you and you hit it straight up in the air and only you are around to hit it again, that is legal only if you use your head. You can use your head to hit it as many times in a row as you wish. The head rule was set because it if funny to watch someone acting like a seal to get the ball over the net. Finally, if a ball hits the pool edge or back line and bounces into the pool you can hit it back over the net and keep it in play. You got all that? Good, now you can play pool volleyball.

As we played Bill and Teri Burch arrived and Linda went over and got them orientated to the house. We sat outside and had chips and homemade salsa while we answered their questions and talked about their flights in. Everyone got ready and we watched the sun set and then walked into town for dinner. We introduced them to street tacos by going to Pedro’s on taco row. After we ate we walked the plaza, had sweet snacks and then went home to bed.