Visiting Mangata

Morning comes early sometimes, especially when the night is hot and humid. Linda called me out of bed and we got ready early. Today we scheduled to walk to Barra de Navidad and grab a water taxi over to the Grand Bay where John Karpenko has left his sailboat, Mangata, moored for a few weeks. John is up in the state's skiing and will return to the sun and heat, but until then we said we would check on the boat.

We walked the beach to Barra and ate breakfast at a nice place called Ramon's. Once we cooled off we went down to the lagoon and hired a water taxi to take us to the docks at the Grand Bay. That whole endeavor cost us 60 pesos, but that includes a return trip.

We checked on Mangata and everything was fine. No mold growth, odd smells or squatters. We took photos to post for John.

After the checkup we walked the Grand Bay grounds, of course, it was beautiful. The taxi arrived and we hurried back to Barra where we caught a bus back to San Patricio.

I sent this photo to John and said we were a bit late.

Mangata secure on the G dock.

The Grand Bay

Linda, just to the left of the taxi dock.

Super Sunday

Gameday... ZZZzzz  ZZZzzz  

Is there a game today?  I stayed up late listening to the Zags beat BYU. 

Hummmm...

The Daigle family, our French friends, at the Casa Grande are all abuzz. Being from Maine you know who most of them want. All we can do is try to find small connections to the Eagles. A couple players are from the Pacific Northwest; I think from Spokane. We don't really have a dog in the fight, so we are choosing the Eagles as our team in the game. (Mostly, we just want the Patriots to lose - Linda) Not too exciting. Oh well, there is always the food.

A photo of me accepting my cribbage trophy.

By the time the game started the place was packed. Someone estimated about 30 people. Everyone was drinking, eating and playing games. There were 16 players in the big cribbage tournament. It was big, 10 pesos (about 50 cents) to enter. Linda and I signed up and there was a blind draw to pick everyone's opponents.The games were set up so that if you kept winning, you climbed to become the Casa Grande Champion. If you lost a game, you dropped into the consolation bracket to try to climb up that way. Two losses and you were out.

Linda and I never met in the tournament. Well, we both played pretty well and if we wanted to play each other, we could have. You see, I won and became the Casa Grande Champion, while Linda lost her first one but became the Consolation Champion.  All the money collected went to us and we have decided we will quit our day jobs and become cribbage professionals.

After the cribbage and other games ended we all ate our fill of chicken wings, chips, dips and other great food items. Then the game began! The crowd that gathered to watch was definitely rooting for the Patriots. We watched as the game progressed and the teams took turns scoring. In rooting for the underdog, my philosophy is to keep a low profile and let the game play out. If my team does well and wins, I make sure to complement the other team and accept my win without a whole bunch of bravado. This seldom happens from the other side, but Linda and I like to respect someone else's loss. That was the case in this Super Bowl. The team that won did a good job, the team that lost also played very well. It was a fun game to watch. 

Next year, maybe the Seahawks will be in the big game. Then we will see if I act the same way. LOL

What? A New Post!

I sort of feel like I am going to confession; “Forgive me for I have not posted in 12 days.” Has it been that long? Yes, but we really haven’t had an adventure and like I said in the last post, we are kind of stuck in the doldrums of staying in Mexico.

I know, I know I could go out every day and look for exciting, Mexico related, things to photograph, but I confess, I haven’t done that.

Our days are basically the same. Breakfast, volleyball, lunch, read, nap, walk, dinner, read, shower, rinse repeat.  I will fill in some gaps if you are interested (or not).

I came down with a really bad case of bronchitis and slept my way through that. Now I am all better. Wow, that was extremely interesting.

Today I took my camera to the pool and took a few shots. Linda was in a game and I was trying to not use the AUTO setting on the camera. Here are three shots from her first game. Note the two sides of my lovely wife. The first two shots show how fiercely competitive she is when it comes to sports. Believe me, never play racquetball with that woman.  The final shot shows how much she loves to play and have fun. She is pretty amazing.

When we arrived home I spotted another cactus that was in bloom.  This type of cactus is very cool and I will try to get a photo of the flower before it actually blooms. I will post it as soon as I can catch that moment. 

"Feed me, Seymour!"