5C's Que Pasa

So happy to see Santiago Sunday morning.  He was bring bringing us three new bougainvillea to replace the ones the ants ate. Fortunately they are only 40 pesos each or $2.78CAD/$2.11USD.

Just as he was leaving, Alan and Laura and their friends Carol and Rod arrived.  Alan and Laura are backed in and Rod is about to move their RV into place.

Colin later planted all three of the new plants. Yes that is his second shirt of the day.

4:30 PM and happy hour.  I am being a good girl and icing.

So happy that their first sunset was unique.

Colin is in this shot ( on the right ) and he is in his third shirt of the day.  It was rather colourful.  I will have to get a photo for you in the future.

We had a lovely meal and the conversation never stopped.  Well except when we were sampling the truffles 🙂 It was a great first night together.  Looking forward to the next three months.

Early Saturday morning I headed back to power wash two patios for friends who were arriving Sunday.  It took longer than expected but it sure was nice to see that dirt disappear.  Yes I know, I was standing for all that time but I just wanted to get it done.  Colin did come and help me at the end.

We had received the name and phone number for a chiropractor in Mazatlan that was recommended to us by Erik, the RV tech.  Colin called and was told that she could see me in a few hours.  So we headed towards Mazatlan via the embarcadero and the lancha.  A bit of a traffic jam.  These two smaller horses have been going up and down the beach selling rides to kids.

Dr. Rosa Lopez Gandar has a wall full of diplomas.

She has been in business for thirty years.

She did a variety of tests and long story short declared that my right leg was an inch longer.  Dr. Rosa spent an hour with me and did a variety of tests and a few treatments.  I have exercises to doing very day and should be icing every hour.  I will see her again on Tuesday.  Oh, and no walking!

She suggested that my body was low in Vitamin B12 and prescribed five intramuscular injections every two days.  She sent Colin out to pick up the prescription while she treated me and then gave me my first injection.  10,000mcg of B12, 100mg of B1 and 50mg of B6 in each shot.

Naval vessels and tuna boats.

We never tire of the ride back to the peace of the Isla.

We dropped off our laundry for the week and saw this unusual line of laundry as we drove back to the RV park.

We saw this older RV parked at the side of the road, for sale! Such a long overhang.

What do you think of these this large hanging Christmas ornaments?  Those of you who have been here for a while are used to seeing the many smaller balls hanging. It really took a lot of energy and last year I knew that I should make a change.

This is what I was working in the above photo.  I love how I recycled my small ornaments.

The night shot.

Meanwhile Colin was doing surgery on our snowman. I may have mentioned in past years, that this was a gift from a very special friend from many years ago.  Julie may or may not still be reading this blog but I do think of her often.

Colin said that he had a new idea…..

Brilliant ( literally )  idea mi amore.

I really like my Dollar Store find. During the day they sway with the breeze.

The five stockings that I knit long ago represent the 5C’s.  Below are dog and penguin cutsies.

Yes I do believe that we are ready for Santa and some special visitors.

So happy to see the humidity down yesterday.  Right now tonight  as I type it is 76% but not too bad.  The clock is out by 3 hours, it was about 1PM.

I am working on finding a chiropractor and a physio therapist.  I can’t continue on with this constant pain.  Meanwhile yesterday I felt the need to walk so we went for a wee walk.  I made it as far as Carmelita’s and then back.  Lots of icing after that.  I was hoping that by walking I might walk out the cause of the pain. Maybe tomorrow.

When we started to travel in the RV, I went through our Christmas decorations and packed some mementoes to travel with us.  I gave this to Colin many years ago, a mouse sitting on a roll of film taking a photo.  Apropos 🙂

This lovely piece of blown glass belonged to my grandmother.  Over the past few years the teapot has lost its spout. We have several bins under our house back in Canada holding Christmas decorations, hopefully I still have some very special old pieces in there. We downsized from a 5000 sq ft home to 3600 sq ft and now live in 920 sq feet and even less when we are in the RV. I kept all the decorations from our huge home where I had four decorated theme Christmas trees.  I love Christmas and all the lights, decorations and especially the music.  Can you tell?

Many of my ornaments have special connections.  The ‘cat in a mitten’ on the right was one of the craft projects I came up with when I ran a Christmas decoration booth at a craft fair at least twenty years ago. That was fun but a ton of work.  The sequinned/beaded candle on the left came from Paris.  I was there on a trip I won from Air Canada ( where I worked ) before I married Colin ( over 32 years ago ).  I came home with four very special Christmas decorations.  I could not afford much more than those and I treasure them to this day.  The sleigh was a gift from a dear friend.

Looking very festive inside tonight.

This is about a third of those attending.

Arrival time was 3:30PM and we all started eating about 4PM and by 4:45PM there was not much left at all.  These tables were full of delicious   platters of food.

From 3:30 – 5:00PM there were three tents like this offering  a wide variety of items to be bid on as part of a silent auction.

That tall bottle  on the left was one of my donated items for the auction, a 1.75 litre bottle of Irish Creme Liqueur.  Last I saw it was going for 600 pesos, more than double what I paid for it.

There were a few items that were auctioned off live. I made a few bids here and there on the silent auction but we had to leave because of the bugs.  So at the moment I have no idea if I was successful in any of my biding.