Bob and Jan's Travels: Puerto Vallarta

We arrived last night in Puerto Vallarta around 9 pm - our flight was delayed 1 hour in Edmonton because the water system was frozen. Our destination was Puerto Bahia in the hills above the small fishing village of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle (La Cruz for short) which is north of Puerto Vallarta (about 30 minutes from the airport).

We got up around 8 am, sauntered to the restaurant for breakfast and then took a shuttle into La Cruz for the Sunday Farmers Market. The market was really fun with over 280 vendors selling everything from bread to nanaimo bars to scones to garlic cajun smoked mahi mahi to earrings to mixed meat sandwiches to sausages - and that was only the stuff we bought. It was a great market and we will go back next Sunday when Kate and Randi are here. We then went grocery shopping (we have a full kitchen) to Mega (a Walmart type grocery store) where we bought 3 carts of groceries for $300. Had to take 2 cabs home because of all of the groceries and the 5 of us.

We arrived back at our place and Scott promptly started the drink making marathon - mojitos, rum punch, pina coladas, micheladas, cervesas … we spent the entire afternoon at our place (we have our own small pool). We then went to dinner at Eva's Brickhouse in La Cruz. It was fantastic - we had grilled mahi mahi, seared ahi tuna and lobster pasta. WOW!!! Kent, the owner, Max, the maitre d (and resident dog) and Big Momma, the waitress (and resident cat) were so friendly and made our evening. This is now our favourite restaurant in the PV area. We had one of the those meals where you savour every bite. Looking forward to a good night's sleep and a lazy day tomorrow.