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                                       Group Marlin Champion Dancers at annual area competition
                                                      held in Boca de tomatlan this year !

                                                 Group marlin girls new dance and costumes

                                             Dia del nino 2019 at new town square.

                                                    Look at all those happy ninos !

                                                 Phillipo LoGrande painitng for mi escuelita.

                                                            New roof just in time.

Welcome June

Welcome to foggy, damp, and pleasant June for Residents of Yelapa. Not so sweet for vacationers I suppose, but it feels good to me ! No measurable rain yet, but a few drops in my rain Gage the last few mornings. 

Please please let it come down soon, but not before this afternoon when I can get the tarp over my bed, just in case !

I love my new roof, so clean and bright and smells fantastic,
if not a little over powering the first few days. 
I am confident there will be no leaks, but just as a precaution, I'll leave the tarp up until the roof expands and settles.

I can see on my home page this is my 200th post !  
Wow. That gives me a nice feeling difficult to explain.
That takes us back 7 years, I believe.
I was 52 years old, and my Dad was 85.
Because he was having difficulty breathing, talking on the phone was becoming a chore, so I started the blog as a way for him to keep up with my life in Yelapa, and when we did talk on the phone he could engage a little more, after reading my blog. The last year, my step mom read the blog to him.
I was writing every week for a few years !
Five years next month since he died.

And here I still am, once a month, checking in !

June 1 , Yelapa, Dia de Marina. Biggest party of the year, with Rodeo and this year a huge band played both weekend nights.
No major injuries to report which is good !
It was first day back to mi escuelita when the bulls for the rodeo were run through town, right past our doorway, by 8 or 10 cowboys on horses, calling "whoa whoa whoa" !!
We know they are coming, and the paths are cleared, but
kids to old folks stand back to watch them come through.
It's very exciting.

I counted 22 boats in the morning procession out of the bay, to throw wreaths in the ocean paying tribute to those who lost their lives at sea, Fishermen essentially.

The Playita was jam packed as per usual, with more people coming from Vallarta and area every year, and always family members home from States or Canada, and more food being sold, if you didn't want to wait for the pulled pork that comes free with a price of the bracelet.
A messy, greasy, fatty, experience, not to be missed, if you are into that kind of thing !

DJ started at 10:20 am and shut down at 7:30 pm.
Non stop super charged shake your booty dance music.
I danced ..... not on the beach, in the middle of the circle of wild people dancing around me, and the dj calling my name !!! like some people we know ......
Paloma ......

One gigantic beach party where almost everyone knows your name, or face !!

Now low season is here, let the rains begin.