Friday Jan 31st

The last three days have been very quiet, but enjoyable.

Wednesday started off by taking our plastic chairs down to the beach (together with our big umbrella) where we settled in for a short while, enjoying the ocean. Not too long afterwards Nestor (the co-host) came out to us and asked us, as a favour, to please pay the restaurant for chair rentals rather than use the apartment ones; the reason being that the owners of our apartment do not want to offend the restaurant people because part of their business includes rentals.  Hmmm OK,so we paid 60 pesos (about $4.50) rent for two chairs, for the day, only for the wind to come up and blow our umbrella over..... we gave up our chairs shortly thereafter and came back to our place.

We spent a quiet day reading or watching Utube and at night we went across the street from Oxxo to the Cocina Economica to buy their pre-made supper special of the day. It was only $5 per plate but wasn't that great so I think we probably won't be using them very much in the future.

Yesterday (Thursday) was another typical day for us as we are settled into a routine now.

We walked up to the vegetable store for some purchases and then came back to relax. We had a great conversation with Roy and Dalaina, and before bed we played a few games of tile rummy outside on our veranda.

Today (Friday) the local navy had their firefighting boat out to welcome Dave and Sue Slaght into Manzanillo from Calgary.

Dave and Sue came by at 11 AM and the next five hours flew by as we caught up on our respective families, discussed travels we have been on ,and our future plans. A wonderful time with wonderful people. It is pretty funny we meet here because we don't seem to be able to get together back in Canada.

This evening we facetimed with Vanessa, and later with Mike and the kids (no Michelle there as she was sick in bed).

The beach is quite noisy tonight with the sounds of kids playing and having a good time on a Friday night. Time will tell if there are any parties out there or not. Caro tends to hear them more than I do anyway so she will let me know in the morning.