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Published: November 21st 2008
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Hello from LaPenita,
The Mexican dinner party was great. Our street, aptly named the "Street of Dreams". When we were here in 2006, we travelled down here with Bob and Marie. A lot of us were put on this street but Bob and Marie were located down on the main street. She thought it was dark and damp down where she was but they didn't seem to be able to move up here so Marie would come to visit us on what she called "the Street of Dreams" and it stuck. We now have a signpost on our street and it is the place to "BE". We had the party on our street. Tables were set up and each had a lovely Mexican cloth, candles etc. We enjoyed Happy Hour from 4:30 to 6:30PM when dinner arrived. Since I organized this event, at 6:20 I was asking people if we should be thinking about Plan B but they arrived with dinner right on time. Martha and Karen set up the buffet and every thing was delicious. We were the talk of the park. Unfortunately, Martha just wanted 20 people so it was a sought after invite.
We had our
first Mexican adventure! We drove to Chacala to look for accomodation for John and Sharie. Chacala is a very small little town up the road about 20 minutes. We checked out a couple of places and found a great new little cappachino bar. We left the coffee place to locate another place, drove down towards the Marina but of course, true Mexican fashion there was a big truck parked blocking the road so Larry backed up this little street and backed into a driveway to get turned around. We then drove off up the hill and around the corner and stopped to check out another accomodation. As we stopped, a little Mexican man is running along behind and motioning and talking a mile a minute. In Spanish and sign language he wanted Larry to get out and look. Well, Larry had backed over his fish net and yanked it one block up and one block over. It was still attached when we looked and still in his yard so you can imagine how long this net was. Larry layed under the truck and proceeded to try and get the net unwound from around the trucks brakes assembly. The poor little
Mexican man is very pleasant but visibly upset. This is his livelyhood. Thank goodness Luis, the accomodation owner who is Mexican but spoke perfect English came out and brought a knife and interpreted. Once the line was cut the Mexican fisherman wanted Larry to walk down to his house and see the damage. There was lots of damage. Anway, Luis, the interpretor, helped Larry and the fisherman decide how much it was going to cost to fix his nets and get him back out fishing. Any way, $1,000pp (about $100) later all were happy. Larry and fisherman both felt like it was OK. The was our first real Mexican disaster but it all ended well. There is always another Mexican person around to help out.
A group of us went for dinner in Rincon de Guayabitos and we happened upon Kerry and Janice. We had just met them this summer at our friends Ed and Anita's. What a small world. They were staying at the local all inclusive. We picked them up the next night and they came to our place for dinner. BBQ's pork loin. The locals do pork well. Just stay away from the BEEF!! No matter
what you do to it, it just gets bigger as you chew it.
On Friday night we had a Surpise 50th wedding anniversary party for Fred and Faye. It was a lovely evening. I made nice little invites and asked everyone to bring an appie and wine. We have some very creative people here that jumped into decorating the Palapa. It was magical. We had a fellow camper be the genuine replica official to renew the vows. The vows consisted of "will Fred promise to drive Faye to LaPenita every year" and will Faye continue to provide co-piloting skills to get to LaPenita. etc It was lots of fun and they were so surprised and happy. Check out the veil that was crafted, the bouquets and boutinere. This whole place was decorated with stuff people had or foraged from the bush.
I developed an ear infection so went to see Dr. Lydia in LaPenita. She is a lovely medical doctor that speaks enough english to get by. She diagnosed the ear infection and sold me drugs and was told to come back in 4 days if it was not 100%. Yesterday, I went back because it was feeling
better but not perfect and I had run out of antibiodics. Turns out I had been taking them wrong so I have to start all over again. I was supposed to take 3 a day and I only took 2. The prescription said take 1 every 8 hours, I guess I was on Mexican time and thought there was only 16 hours in a day. Oh, well no charge for a followup visit. You just turn up at her door and she charges $250pp (about $25) and her husband sells the drugs next door. The drugs were $120pp ($12) so it is pretty reasonable to go to the doctor and she seems very competent. Seems like you can get anything down here. One of our campers needs to have his Cumidon checked and apparently he can just walk into the lab and have it done for a small fee. Already, lots of people are doing the dentist thing. Our next door neighbout just went and had a root canal, had a post put in and a deep cleaning for $240USD. Another girl, needed 3 root canals and 12 fillings and the whole bill is going to be $1200. It was
exactly the same diagnoses as in Edmonton but about 10% the cost. For more involved root canals or veneers or crowns, they have a dentist and his dentist wife that come from Guadalara every second week. He is a root canal specialist and she is a prothodontist (veneers, crowns etc)
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