Casa Grande Tops Tournament

Over the past week, we have heard the tap, tap tapping of toy tops hitting the floors of the casas around ours.   The Casa Grande neighbors had gone to Barra for a shopping spree and returned with tops and instantly became obsessed with them.

Once the tops started flying, the next step was to set the date for a big competition and find out who the best top flipper is. On Friday evening at 5:00 PM everyone from our complex who owned a top gathered up on the upper plappa for the Casa Grande Top Tournament of Champions. I was the photographer and Linda was one of three honest judges.

Waves

The blending of a full moon, high tides and a storm offshore has created huge waves that are battering the bay of Melaque.   These waves have been so big that many of our friends are saying that this is the largest show of waves they have ever witnessed at this beach. Below is a two-minute video of the waves taken at about 11:00 am today.  I posted a couple pictures that show the beach a couple weeks ago and then the beach today.  All in all, it is very amazing.

This was a few weeks ago.

This was today at about the same spot, different angle.

Funny Thing

On the fourth of March, we will have two weeks left in Melaque. Our snowbird stay will be winding down and we will be heading over to La Ribera for a week or so and then on to San Jose del Cabo.

I am ready to get going and sometimes actually look past our Cabo stay and think about our run down to Oregon to pick up Kobi.  Man I have missed that mutt!

Conversations down here start with, "When are you guys leaving?" and every weekend we say goodbye to another set of friends. I know I mentioned this last year, but it is so much a part of the banter between folks it becomes very noticeable.

A couple days ago I was standing near the beach when a couple guys on horses back rode up and handed me a flyer. They are starting a horseback riding business and were handing out flyers. I took it to Linda without reading it. She started laughing and pointed out the error.It made me think of Linda, Rayelle and running horses!  Check it out below.