Wow.....after six months of lazing near the ocean, I had forgotten how busy we are here! Busy in a fun, doing what you love kind of way, but still busy!
Our routine is for Matt to play golf Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and then he works on our little garden on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. I work at the ranch (my dog rescue) Monday, Wednesday and Friday....but sometimes help with special events or run dogs to the vet on other days. Our housekeeper comes on Friday afternoons, so that's our afternoon to go out for lunch and do a bit of grocery shopping. Add in yoga five times a week and Spanish class twice a week and we have our routine. But still leaves us plenty of time in the evenings for fun stuff.
On Mothers Day we help an open house brunch for some friends and neighbors. Was a really good time....but a lot of work. We're all mothers with kids far away, so celebrating with friends makes the day special. Special shout out to Matt - he surprised me with a certificate for ten massages. He set the bar pretty high!
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| Matt enjoyed showing off his garden |
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| Notice Lola hanging with Jan and Ron who fostered her while we were away this winter. She was glad to see them! |
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\Kitchen talk!
We had another great dinner at Molcajetes, which is our every other Saturday night usual....home of the bottomless, free Margaritas! Yumm! We like to save room for gelatto; you know...kids and old folks all love their ice cream.
Note the Mexican sound system on this car.....you just strap a huge speaker to the roof of the car, connect it to the radio and are able to piss off a whole bunch of gringos,
 After much deliberating, Matt and I have a new ride! With our schedules the way they are, it was obvious that we needed to add a vehicle. I wanted a small motorcycle since I felt I could ride it on the highway to the ranch. Matt wanted a scooter, since he HATES motorcycles. Matt won - we bought a 2008 Honda scooter. I don't think it has enough power to carry both of us, but it's good for one person. I ride it to yoga and Matt will use it to run errands when I'm at the ranch with the car.
There is a great bus system here, they run constantly. I've often thought we were foolish not to use them more often, especially when we go into Chapala where parking can be hard to find even in low season but even more so in the winter when all the snow birds are in town. My neighbors Isabelle and Donnie don't have a car here and were taking the bus into Guadalajara one day this past week and asked me to join them. Was a fun trip. There are local buses into Guad and express buses. The express buses are much nicer with reclining seats and leg rests. We took a local bus into Guad (a two hour trip) and an express bus home (one hour trip). Note to self....wait for the express. Very little difference in price - 42 pesos for the local bus and 50 for the express. Once in Guad we took a cab ($40 pesos) to a mercado -- and what an experience! The mercado took up an entire large city block and was three levels. You name it and I'm sure you could find it at the mercado. There were fruits, vegetables, nuts, candy, clothing, shoes (and more shoes), saddles, boots, belts, watches, jewelery, lotions, herbs, meats, fish, electronics, baskets, blankets....you get the idea. The difficult part was finding what shop you needed. They also had a huge food court area where you could choose everything from sushi to goat stew. We ended up having some ceviche tostados and a beer! Was fun and I think a good alternative to driving.
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