We signed up on a ladies' bus trip that had 42 ladies wanting to spend, spend, spend. We stayed at the Hacienda del Sol hotel which was in the heart of the Tonala Thursday and Sunday market area.
We walked everywhere. If we bought something too big to carry easily we had it delivered to the hotel. I bought some beautiful lamps for 290 pesos which works out to about 24.00 Canadian. I am sure that if I tried to buy them at home they would cost about five times that much; shades included. I bought a couple of other small things and a few gifts for folks back home but nothing major. Bev and I rewrapped the lamps in a bigger box and the shades and the gifts in the old lamp box. Bev said she was giving me her shopping parcel space on the bus home. I'm glad she did. There was some (I mean a lot) of juggling of parcels and suitcases to get everything on the bus for the return trip. The bus driver was very good but it annoyed me no end that he would end up talking on his cell phone and driving us home. Total cost of the trip excluding meals and purchases was 1100 pesos which works out to about $100 Canadian. That included the bus, driver's tip, tip to the first night's restuarant, and hotel room for two nights. Do you think we could do a shopping bus trip at home for that price?
We've had a pretty busy month. Hubby and I took a drive up to Las Varas. It is a real Mexican town not too far north of here. We looked around, had lunch and then came home again. I think we saw one gringo in town. It looked pretty prosperous. If you want to buy good shoes, go there. They had lots of shoe stores for men.
One morning the shrimp sellers came down the street so hubby and Vic went out to see what was for sale. These crusteaseans (sp) were pretty big. Pretty good too if I do say so myself.
Hubby and I continue to go to our yoga exercises in the morning. Hubby is also reading a lot of books; our friends Vic and Bev were given lots of books by his brother so they've been reading them and passing them on to the library under the palapa.
Alfredo and Erica's grandson was born December 31. Bev and I went to the Fruteria yesterday, and ran into Alfredo, who pointed us to the store where his daughter was shopping and baby was there. He's a beautiful baby, now one month old. Already.
There hasn't been a lot of motorhome traffic here this January. I think we've had four vehicles come in and four move out. Two couples moved down the street to the new rv park on the beach. This last week we've had two vans come in. Two of the men were from Ontario and they drove on down south after staying only two days. Yesterday Jennifer left for the south to visit her friend. She is a bird watcher so she stayed two days too, but she liked it so much here that she says she just might come back next season and stay longer. She's from Ottawa and drove all the way down here by herself.
While she was here we had a beautiful sunset one evening. Hubby tried to capture the setting sun but cameras never do the same job that God does. God being whoever or whatever one believes.
we are the Holoidays on holiday
