Tuesday, February 2, 2010

February 3, 2010

here we are modeling hats




Rosie and her band playing at "Resterante El Faro"

Allan says cats can't smile!!!

Cheers, wish you were here!!

Rosie's Juice Bar
Thought this privacy fence was unique


Allan looks happy

We were able to get a stool for Edith so she can bush her teeth

If you come looking for us this is where we are hanging our hat

Edith's shirmp at "La Petita"

Allan's Breaded Fish

The Garlic Fish - mmmmmm - Gooooood!


Entertainment at La Petita


More entertainment - Gosh they are good!!


Allan, Edith and Bob in front of "La Petita" restaurant - they serve great food here.


No matter what time you get up you can always catch the morning sunrise!!


the flowers are beautiful


very well kept garden


nice isn't it?



some shots of the gardens at "Casa De Los Viajeros" - our home for the next month. There is no pool, but, if there was we would never get to the ocean!!!


Bob says "Oh boy this is great!!"


Edith basking in the glory of "Puerto Morelos"


We are on our way to Toronto from Tara in this shot,
it is hard to believe the difference in the weather


Our plane arrived in Cancun yesterday at 12:25 and the temperature was 25 C/77F with a nice warm rain. We booked a taxi through “cancunshuttle.com” on the internet before leaving Toronto, it was there waiting for us and had us delivered to Puerto Morelos before 2:00 o’clock.
Rob and Joanne (our landlords) were waiting for us when we arrived at “Casa del los Viajeros”. They gave us a guided tour of the apartment and brought us up to date on some of the happenings in PM since we were here last year. Once settled in, we went for groceries (the staples – cerveza!!! and other items). We then stopped at Ed’s – “Cantina Habanero”, for a cerveza (couldn’t wait until we got back to our Casa) and had a little visit with him and Natalie. I hear there has been a new addition to their family since we were here last year. A son, whose name is Jeremy – a little brother for Jess – can’t wait to see both of them
Later in the afternoon we went to “La Petita” for dinner – it was a delicious as we remembered from last year. As an FYI, Bob and I had a fillet of fish with garlic butter, Allan had breaded fish and Edith had shrimp. Each dish was served with rice/vegs/garden salad. The cost was $20.00 US for Allan and I which included 3 cerveza; Bob and Edith paid $25.00 for their dinner. Quite reasonable we thought.
We were all tired after a long day which started at 2:30 am with a wakeup call from the hotel desk in Toronto. Bed time came early.
Today is our 42nd wedding anniversary – I wonder where we will decide to have dinner this evening. It is a beautiful day here today – no wind, some cloud and hot, hot, hot!! We have been out for a walk along the beach and now looking at having something for breakfast.

………..it is now 09:14 in the evening – we had dinner at “Restaurante El Faro” above the supermarket near the dock. The shrimp and ribs were to die for!!!!! The waiter’s name was Xavier; he was very friendly and accommodating. There was nothing we asked for that he could not get for us.

Along with you I will look forward to tomorrow’s happenings, so till then – do take care and I wish you were here!!


Saturday, January 30, 2010

January 30, 2010

Bob and Edith's neighbour clearing snow this morning.

January 29, 2010

Setting of the full moon as we reached Espanola




We stopped in Oro Stn
for Maple Syrup making supplies





We had lunch at the Mandarin in Barrie - we always plan a stop here






Here we are following a white car in a snow squall outside of Stayner


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We crossed the bridge in Little Current at 6:45 in the morning, the weather was clear with a temp of -20 and windchill of -30. The roads were clear and dry with light traffic.




We had the pleasure of watching the full moon set along the way. If you have never had that experience - it is more beautiful than that of the rising full moon. The moon is bigger and the yellow/orange colour is brighter if you can imagin that. Just awesome!




The trip was none eventful this year, even in the snow squall. We arrived in Tara at around 6:00 P.M., had dinner with Bob and Edith and caught up on conversation since last seeing each other.




January 28, 2010

Manitoulin before leaving for vacation on the 29th

A beautiful day on Highway 6

Lady happy with her accomodations for the next month



Lady's all - inclusive resort



A wink and a smile from winter?



We are ready to leave tomorrow morning good and early. Lady has been delivered to the Kennel, the housesitters are in place, Gadget has petsitters she will be comfortable with - and we were packed (and have been since before Chistmas). All is nicely falling into place.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

The band playing at Cantina Habanaro tonight
notice the number of strings on that guitar, it's a 7 string base guitar
A little friend came by looking for a warm place to spend some time today

We had dinner here, there are so many restraunts in this little town that we did not have time to get here last year so we put it on " our first places to go list" this year.
Again, another restaurant with great food

Due to high winds and blowing sand today very few people were out on the beach



January 31, 2009

Today has been very cool with high winds – not our usual weather for this time of year in Mexico. We didn’t do too much other than go out for lunch at John Gray’s Mother-in-law’s, we did some souvenir shopping at the Mayan Handicraft Center, had dinner at Hotel Posada Amor and enjoyed a nightcap at Ed’s. Ed had a live band playing favorites from the Beetles and Rolling Stones – but nothing from the Dave Clark 5 while we were there. They all sound the same to me so it’s not like I missed hearing the DC5, now if they had played Country and missed Johnny Cash I’d have complained!

We are looking forward to Dwayne and his family joining us tomorrow and hoping the weather doesn’t stay cool and windy.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Michelle and Michelle at Hola Asia

Ed, Nat and little Jessie - she knows how to ham it up for the camera. Ed made an announcement over the PA system last night joyfully stating that she just got her first tooth!

Me enjoying a cool drink on a hot rainy day



Rain clouds on their way in from the North West


Fishing boats have returned and put to anchor awaiting tomorrows trip



Allan pampering himself