5C's Que Pasa

The sunset last night.

Today was an off and on sunshine type of day with lots of wind in the afternoon. Those winds blew the clouds away.  If you look closely in the top right quadrant you will see some grey dots.

Many more dots in this photo.  Those are dust spots.  I had my camera cleaned on November 30th and here we are, mere weeks later and my camera is already a mess.

This was the sunset this past Friday taken from El Fish Market on Olas Altas.  We were meeting friends for dinner and I wanted to eat earlier so we could catch the sunset.

Lucky us, we were treated to a beauty. We sat there and chatted for over three hours.  We finally got up and walked over to our friends home where the party continued.  They graciously  gave us a ride to the embarcadero but we still only got home just after 11:30PM.  I didn’t get any other photos that entire day.

Saturday as well as the Friday were the nicest days we have had in weeks.  I enjoyed sitting outside in the sunshine reading my novel.  These ladies are part of an African dance group and they stopped just out front to practice some of their moves.

Colin was playing but I moved over to Diane & Pierre’s to enjoy the sunset with them.  This boat was heading further south after sitting in our bay for the day.

Colin and I were going back into Mazatlan again last evening ( a few hours later than on Friday ) so it was time to get ready.

We were back at Gaia, just the two of us, to listen to ( and of course dance ) to Los Cryps.  Jim, the fellow with the grey hair joined in on some vocals for a bit.

But we were there for the band itself.

Colin had our favorite meal there, the fresh swordfish fillet with a tomatillo and pumpkin seed sauce served with a few veggies and jasmine rice.

I tried the panko and cilantro breaded shrimp served with a mango and ginger sauce with veggies and rice.  The shrimp were huge and I could not eat them all.  We both enjoyed our meals.

You may recall that I mentioned this lady who was there both times we went in December.  I spoke to her last night and found out that her name is Peggy ( Colin thinks Penny ) and she is 73, is on her own and goes to Gaia every Saturday evening to dance.  Isn’t that neat?

As danced we noticed this young boy come down to the dance floor from the Machado.  He was a great dancer and latched onto us.  Turns out that they were from Culiacan, his dad is taking the photo, we have to send it and others to them.  He told the child to call us his “Canadian grandmother & Canadian grandfather”.  The family spoke English perfectly.  Contact info was exchanged and we already received an email late last night telling us how the boy ( no idea his name/did we know it? ) was ‘fascinated by us’.  Colin told them about how he goes to Culiacan for the guitar festival in March and now we ( yes me as well ) will be visiting with them in March.  I mean, how can I say no to a visit with my Mexican grandson?  I have many photos but this will do for now.  I can’t recall ever meeting a child so polite.

So does this mean that this is my Mexican son, father to my Mexican grandson?

Here I am with Hugo in the white and Carlos on my left.  Hugo also lives in Culiacan and we will be spending time with him as well in March.  He only comes to Mazatlan once per week and often joins the band.  Carlos is going back to Mexico City to continue his studies but now only in early February.  They are the two that make Los Cryps come alive which is why we went back again last night.

February 17, 2014.  Hugo on my right ( left in the photo ) and Carlos, center with the thumb up.  So just  twelve days shy of five years ago ( when this photo was taken ), I am still in love with these guys.  What a great group.

Back to the peace of the Isla, again about 11:30PM.  Gosh we had so very much fun both Friday night and last night.  I want to live here all the time, I want to live in Kelowna all the time and I certainly want to keep traveling the world full time.

This is the front cover.  Caeli and Carmeh on the top left in a field in Vancouver  Channel and Cloii on the top right are  in the Pismo Beach dunes.   The five of us in Acapulco at least twelve years ago.

…and the back cover.  Gramma Katie with Carmeh on the left and Caeli on the right.  She loved them as much as we did and they loved her so very much.  Katie is a very special lady that we met long ago when we lived in Tsawwassen. 

Me loving Carmeh and Caeli and Colin playing with them.  They barked at his funny nose.

They were landing everywhere.

Many at the same time.

Even on the flower arrangement I brought home from the quinceanera.

Colin and I just sat there watching this amazing show.

Sitting on a bottle of bug spray.

Can you see the wee one on the right of the flowers?

Now perching on the fire extinguisher.

Even the slippery top of the snowman.  It was most entertaining.

Most unusual.  It was like an invasion of a gang.

Different species of orioles plus a few other types of birds.

It lasted for the longest time and they seemed to be quite relaxed among our things. This was the first and only time that this has happened.

My friend in Lake Havasu sends this report.

Our friends in Amado, which is just south of Tuscon, had six inches of snow in their yard yesterday.

A beautiful vista but they are very cold as it is 19F and there is still some snow on the ground today.

We were all surprised to see this water skier. Not a common sight here.

The clouds had started to come in but we did finally have a sunset.  It certainly was a good beach day.

Rocket fuel!  Not a good note to end this post on, but please check that your medication is not on the list.