jueves, el 2 de junio de 2011

Buenos Noches all!!

Fotos from anoche at Pucks.

The patio

Not so busy for game 1. But remember...we might be two of 10 Canadians still in Huatulco at this time of year. 

The pool table on the ceiling

The bar with hockey on the television.

The bar with soccer on the television.

Torres shoots…Torres scores...Canucks win!!!

Bexico indulging on a ensalada caesar con pollo.

Karen...gracias por el descuento!!


Self portrait in Canuck playera y gorra

And now for our jueves. Great day, lots done…but the heat is taking it’s toll. Looking forward to the cool 34’s again!! Ja ja ja

Amazing how much more energy you have when you drive to the gym vs walk!! I did pass Daniel from Fonatur and I think he is getting tired of all the cereal bars I am handing him!! The ones you know who no longer likes!! Ja ja ja.

Actually I am sure Daniel appreciates them, but has his pride too. I make sure I only give him stuff every now and then. Now the boys at the gate are something else!! Bring on the saladitas, cereal bars and bottles of Coke!! Ja ja ja

Not much happening at the gym, but had a great workout.

Rosa had to leave at 1230pm for a “reunion”…a meeting. So look who stepped in to watch the show…and play solitaire.

This is Rosa’s hijo Juan Manuel…huge Cruz Azul soccer fan and a joven who speaks no ingles. Bizarro.

Despues de gimnasio, the usual walk through town. But I did make a side trip and ended up in these two tiendas.

The one to the right is a muebles tienda and I went in looking to see if they sold cunas (crib). No luck but I think they said they could order a metal one or one made of madera, wood.

The store to the left is full of ropa de senoritas (and some abuelas..ja ja ja). I looked in from the sidewalk and was invited in. On all my walks through town, I am always on the look out for ropa para mi novia. She needs some pregger clothes and they are not easy to find.

I went into the tienda and explained the situation and was promptly shown a “tent”…no gusta (no like) quickly came out of my mouth as there is NO WAY Bexico wants to be seen in a tent!! Lol

Next dress was a nice color and I told the senorita I might return con mi novia.

Then it was onto Gabriel’s to say hola to Daniel. Moises y Samuel were also there…so hola to all.

It was a quick chat as it was tiempo para la comida…lunch. And look how Daniel gets his lunch.

Handed to him via restaurante de Vicky…his madre!!

Headed home and Bexico was out at Yogis looking for some shorts that will fit her and then she was headed to pick up the veggies.

I headed out to see if I could get her to the tienda de ropa before they closed for siesta and managed to catch up with her despues de Yogi’s…she was chatting up Daniel as he ate his hot cakes postre (dessert)!!

We went back to the store and Bexico did like the colors…not so much the style. But we did find another one that she liked so we bough that. We understood most of what the senorita said, but not all. We did laugh after, as having a bunny in the oven seems to be a free pass to touch Bexico’s belly!!

We stopped at a hole in the all torta stand and for $15 pesos, Bexico had a great torta con pollo and I had the $10 peso coca light!! We have walked past this spot numerous times and today was the day where we decided to give it a go, and it was worth every peso.

Veggie pick up…low stock so Bexico will head back mañana.

We came home and antes (before) our alberca time, I got on the MagicJack and called Aeroplan. Not too complicated to book a pregnant woman from Mexico to Vancouver, a little more complicated to book Bexico back to Mexico con un-named and not born níno.

At the end of the chat and 40,000 points later (5000 for níno), we have the tickets booked. Once we are three, we will just call Aeroplan and have them change the name on the return ticket from Miss Baby Vanderleeden (currently that is actually what is on the ticket) to whatever our nínos name is. And NO…we do not know if it is a hija o hijo!!

Off to alberca time and then ensaladas, surfing the web and then I had pizza para la cena (no nitrates for Bexico…pepperoni) and Bexico did the jacket potato thing.

Here are the rest of the fotos from today.

I cannot remember the name of the fruits these two hombres are selling.

Hoy’s blog was brought to you by the color naranja.

And the last one was a bonus BONICE foto!!


I never get tired of taking fotos of the hombres selling the muebles de pino.

Check out the direction this moto is travelling…and check out the arrow on the road.

This is the 3^rd time I have seen Fonatur repair the potholes by el gimnasio.

At least this time they were using some cement in the mix!!

Same Fonatur guys on lunch.

They all take their break at 1pm and except for Daniel who eats cereal bars (lol), they all have a kilo of tortillas that they share.

The sandia hombres from ayer (yesterday) have been joined by the mango hombres.

Níno fotos.

Wow…that is a lot of hair for a new born!!

Níno on a moto.

They do love their limons here!!

And the little hombre was doing his part to help his madre!!

And the grande camion (truck).

It is carrying new garrafon (jugs) de agua and the colored caps that each different water company uses.

Just a foto from near the zocalo.

I liked the peeps sticking their heads out the sun roof.

And last but not least…a bici.

Look at the size of the back tire this guy has installed!!

MISC

Compliments of Daniel (gracias amigo), here is a link to a YouTube video taken from Tangolunda (hotel zone 10 minutes away), about 3 years ago.

Tangolunda

Floatie #1 update…it is in the basura (trash). It was used almost every day for 8 months…good use. R.I.P.

Chatted with Lalo today. He is in Acapulco and at first he did not know who was calling him. I didn’t recognize his voice either, but once he heard my spanglish…it was “hola Marco!!”.

He is looking into hotels for us and sounds pretty excite for us to visit his hometown. Other then the cliff divers, I do not know much about Acapulco, so we are excited to experience a new city. Great to have a tour guide as well!!

Not firm yet, but we hope to drive up on lunes and return on viernes. That gives us 3 full days to see the sights and hit up some malls and the Walmart!!

Long drive (8 or 9 hours) and we will need to stop to ensure Bexico keeps the blood circulating…and hopefully not need to empty the yellow bucket!!

And here is a super-cool story that was in the Toronto Star.


Toronto Star

Our mañana? Up early to get to migracion and then we will stop at Café Juanitas to pick up some more reading material. Based on history…the oficina de migracion might take a few hours just to get information!!

We will pit stop at Che…hmmm…what shall we have para la cena? And then will hit the gym and I am sure Bexico will do her DVD workout as well.

Mojon? Not sure. Need to buy a rake!! Maybe sábado.

Have a great viernes!!

Bubba y Bexico

miercoles, el primero de junio de 2011

Hola Canuck fans!! It is 820pm and we are sitting at Senor Pucks…and the place now has 20 peeps in it…and there are 3 of us that understand hockey!! Ja ja ja

Score is 0-0 after the primero period.

First foto of the day…

No...this is NOT Bexico!! But nobody told me that we might be able to see little hands or feet pushing on Bexico’s belly...from the inside!! Coolio.

And as we now say…we have a bunny in the oven vs a bun in the oven. Ja ja ja

Bexico negocio (business) updates.

Here is the website created by her French contractor Guy.

The Beginners Lens

To save you from having to search the website, here are the links to the work Bexico did for Guy.

Meet The Team

about The Beginners Lens

Our day was exciting!!

I went to meet Roman and his carpintero in B10 as there were some questions. We chose a support bracket for the kitchen counter/bar counter.

And there was an issue with the new door in the loft so we solved that as well.

Work completed includes the extension for the cama (bed),

The mailbox

And the straightening of the spice shelves.

Today I drove to the gym as we were behind schedule for Mojon and driving saves me 30 minutes total.

Before I got to the camioneta, I ran into Gato Negro. Here is our interaction.

WARNING...NOT for nínos eyes.

“hello Bubba…look what I found”

“would you like to play with it? Here, let me bring it to you."

“anyone coming? Must look both ways before crossing the calle."

Ahhhh…thanks Gato. I let her be...no flirting with Bubba today!! 

The gym was empty and I had a quick session and headed home.

Picked up Bexico, who had already had some alberca time!! She loved going down early in the day as the pool is cooler.

Off to Elektra and that was an adventure!! As expected, there are no more w/d like the one we want. So we decided to buy the floor model. We asked Victor if we could get a discount but his boss (jefe) said no…oh well.

So we pull out our cc and here we run into a problem. There are no more units in the computer…so for some reason the one they have on the floor is not in the system either. They cannot print up an order, so it has to be a manual order…no problem for us.

Since it is a manual order…they need us to play cash vs use our cc?? Who walks around with $14,000 pesos in their pockets? They might have more coming in, or be able to order some in 5 days, so we will return next week.

Only issue is that Roman has his plomero installing the water y gas lines, based on the stacking model. Finger’s crossed.

Clarica…it wasn’t the hombres fault…company policy. Our amigos did a great job…or tried to.

There was an hour of our day we would not get back…and we headed off to Mojon.

We stopped at La Bocana as we saw some BIG olas as we drove by.

Here are the fotos from La Bocana.

These are seis oceano y olas fotos.

The outcome? Olas (waves) coming all the way into Adam’s restaurante.

Kinda interested what Mojon was going to look like.

Off we went and there was no stopping at Copalita, coming or going.

And then we got to Mojon…and here are the fotos.

This is normally dry and if it has water in it, it is rain water. This is water from the ocean…300 metros away.

And here is Bexico surveying the situation. Look at the size of the olas!!

And here are some other wave fotos….big surf!!

Here is a foto from last week…when we thought the water was high. Look at the water well and the wall behind it.

As of today, the olas have washed away 2 feet of sand from this same wall.

And the same from the water well.

While ocean water got into our other well.

And left only one of 8 fence posts along the front of our property.

Otro (other) playa damage.

The view looking up the playa towards the “hotel”.

The hotel itself.

This is Terry’s property at the other end of the playa.

He only lost a corner of his retaining wall, but the waves did come to the top of the wall.

UPDATE

10pm and with 19 seconds left…Canucks score!!! Game over and Canucks win!!!

Now back to the fotos.

Here is the Brit’s old casa and they lost a big chunk of their retaining wall. Close call as their alberca is visible.

And in the fotos…curious Bexico.

Well..this changes build plans!! Ja ja ja. Word around town and the playa is that they have never seen this before. And we have been in and out of Huatulco for years and have never seen this either. Big storm out at sea and high tides is the explanation I have been given.

The waves were still coming onto our property so we decided to head home and have some alberca time.

Last Mojon foto…a homeless crab.

On the way we drove down a road we have never been on and I took these fotos.

SS Minnow.

A pequeña playa.

Some muy caro (very expensive) casas.

Tangolunda. The olas are right up to the palapas at one of the hotels.

It was hot so Bexico stayed in the camioneta as I went to take the fotos.

Not a bad looking truck with 200k km on it!!

After these fotos it was alberca time and then a small meal before we went out to Senor Pucks.

We had some eats and a few bebidas (beverages), chatted up Lanny and Karen joined us for most of the game. Great to catch up and Bexico was VERY thankful for the box of Fibre 1 bars that Karen y Randy brought back from their trip to Canada. Gracias!!

Randy…hope you are felling better soon!!!

We have a few Puck fotos and will show those to you mañana.

11pm and you are all caught up.

Our mañana…banco to pull out some pesos in case we need to pay $$ for the w/d, off to el gimnasio, alberca time and we will see what else happens. Bexico is on stand by, but has lots of peeps she is waiting on.

Have a great jueves…fin de semana is around the corner.

Marco y Bexico