Thursday and Friday

 Thursday-we had a very quiet day with nothing out of the normal happening throughout the day.

The evening was spent watching the series "Inventing Anna" on Netflix.

In the late evening a party started on the street below us when a couple of unknown cars drove in (supposedly this street has parking for only the few residences located here). There were four guys whooping it up and blasting their stereos. Caro had wanted to say something to them but I felt it was unsafe to do so as "you never know what kind of loonies they may be".

Anyway the party carried on until 2:30 (I was able to sleep through most of it, but not Caro). We heard this morning that the neighbour called the police who must have come to break things up.

Today, Friday, for the first time on this trip the navy marines did some training in the water out in front of us.

Every few seconds a marine would drop off the back of the boat and eventually make it to shore. There was a small group of marines learning (?) to fly a drone from the beach and there were the usual personnel with guns standing around to protect these marines. They eventually loaded up in a truck that had backed up to the beach entrance.

After the marines cleared out Caro went for a swim in the ocean however she was soon out after getting many stings/bites from something in the water.

Serge and Marthe have returned from a couple of weeks of travels south of here. We are getting together tonight to catch up. They are back in apartment #2 as before.

Our cleaning lady came today so we went downtown to LaComer food store for one last bulk pick up of food. We also took the opportunity to get cash from an HSBC ABM machine located there. I think we are good now for food and cash for Mexico although we will have some restaurant charges.

After our return and unloading of all our provisions we went back by cab to the same general area as the big stores to LaSonrisa taco restaurant where we enjoyed some awesome tacos. At about a $3 charge for the cab each way it is not a big deal to go back and forth. Our bill for three ice cold beers and five tacos was $18 (including a tip).