Happy Easter ... and more

Easter is upon us ... the beach is lined with tents, canopies and ice coolers. The music is playing, the women are dancing, the kids are running wild in the surf .  Not the kind of Easter Holiday I grew up with, but then again, it could still snow where I come from !

There are 4 grand yachts in the bay, plus a few mini ones, sailboats, pleasure boats, banana
boats, sea-doos, inner tubes, para sailing, and a water skier, behind a water taxi , no less.
The breeze is full of kids laughing and carrying on.  Isabels beach has been packed each day, and the tide has been so high, there isn't a lot of beach to play on, but that makes no difference!  How many people can you fit on a rock ?!

The Mexican people know how to relax, and it revolves around family and food.  There is never a shortage of either around here.  A curious eye gets you an invitation to try the ceviche, or tamalas, or some kind of agua fresca I've never heard of before.  They take such pride and such pleasure to share, it really warms your heart.

Pollo Bollo was jammed packed last night, with so much talk and laughter.  So many family members make it home for this holiday, tables are pushed together, and no one seems to care how long it will take for Jaimie's ribs to reach the table.  There are dogs running around,( not allowed, but good luck keeping them out ) babies are passed back and forth to admire,
hands shaken and hugs given, backs slapped, and yes, more laughter.

I noticed early on, that there are just not the crying babies and infants here, as I was used to seeing up north. Somehow, it seems, the babies in Yelapa are just born happy.  I suppose there are many other reasons you don't hear the whining child down here, perhaps because there are so many distractions for them and so much freedom. The sea and the river at their front door, or maybe it's just something in the air ??

Everything will quiet down now, although the holiday lasts another week.  Life will return to normal, or as normal as it gets for me here.  I hope I will still have a visitor or two .

The bathroom has a lovely new roof.  It smells like a barn in there still, and we have to spray for the little bugs that will be trying to make their home in there.  The roofers knocked off the vent out of the toilet, and when we put it back together, it seems to have solved our septic problem, at least temporarily.  Perhaps that pipe was clogged the whole time ?
Thank you to whoever came up with the retractable snake idea !  Worked for me !

A new toilet is still in order.  That involves breaking out the cement seal on the old one, and replacing it with what we know to be called a flange.  So many of the Yelapa toilets were cemented in to the floor.  There wasn't much alternative years ago, ( this house was built in
1972 ), so the quickest, easiest, cheapest way to get the shitter working was to make some cement !!!

The workers didn't do to much damage to the plants in the yard, and around the bathroom.
Bad, but not that bad.  Nothing like what we lived through doing the main house roof.
You can be as careful as you want, but they have to haul the palm fronds up 46 steps, and
they are long, and wide and full of sand.  Then they have to be piled up, in some kind of order, to be handed up to the man on top.  There were 300 palm fronds.  They took up a lot of room, but everything survived, just a little on the crooked side right now.
I'll post the photos on my " Complete Profile " or Facebook.

Due to technical difficulties beyond my control, I could not make a long distance phone call
today. I have 3 microphones to plug into my computer for my Skype, and NONE of them
work.  I do not have the proper international phone card, and they don't sell them here.
There are draw backs to being so isolated.

Instead I kept busy cleaning the casita, as our guest has returned to Montreal.
There is full morning sun up there, and a great place for a future vegetable/herb garden.

My final Spanish lesson tomorrow, and we will go out for lunch, again.  I went out with 3 woman friends last Wednesday ( so many interesting woman here ) to Shambala, and finally had the Mole.  Everything was delicious.  We had a good time.  I'll go back and try the 
baked potato !! What a good idea....

For now, it's time to go for a swim.  The water has been crystal clear, and I'm told it is warm,
( more than usual )  ... so until next week ...

Sleep tight , don't let the bed bugs bite, and , ...... watch out for April Fools !!

xo

k