Friday, 30 January 2015

La Cruz - January 21 - 24, 2015

On Wednesday, we had a leisurely breakfast and waited for Jim to pick us up. We met Jim and Jeanie at Glorietas last week. We were having dinner and they walked in. I said hola to them and a conversation ensued. Turns out Jim is a lawyer from Edmonton and we crossed paths in Law School. They own a couple of places in a complex called Punta Esmeralda and they invited us to come see their place and the complex on Wednesday - we are always curious about real estate so we took them up on their offer. It would be a great place to own down here. We had lunch with them at their Beach Club and they asked if we wanted to go whale watching the next day. How nice!  And at no cost - they had chartered the Chica Locca - capacity 80 - for 20 people including us.

We came back in the afternoon and went to the pool. As we are running out of time here in Mexico, we decided to start at Tacos on the Steeet (3, 3, 2 and 2 tacos respectively), then we wandered down to Glorietas for coconut shrimp and bacon wrapped cheese stuffed shrimp (we shared) and then wandered down to La Ballena Blanca for shrimp tacos, cheese cake and the most delicious carrot cake. They were actually out of carrot cake but when Eva saw us arrive she left and came back a few minutes later with carrot cake for us from another restaurant that gets the same carrot cake from a local baker.  That is service. They had music again and they were great. 

On Thuraday, we were up early and off to the Chica Locca. Jim and Jeanie were hosting some friends from Punta Esmeralda, some of Jeanie's family (2 sisters and her dad) and us. What a great day!  We saw numerous whales, many moms with their cubs, dolphins, many different species of birds including the blue footed booby birds which apparently can only be found here. We had great food, drinks and visiting. We stopped at the Marietas Islands to swim, dive, and paddle board.  The guides were fantastic.   We went to Masala for dinner (tuna steak x 2 - what else - fettuccine alfredo with jumbo shrimp and a cornish game hen the size of an actual chicken). They had a group called Tatewari playing flamenco - amazing.  See below for pictures.

On Friday, we hung out at the pool all day.  For dinner, we started at La Ballena Blanca with shrimp tacos, a Shrimp burrito and 2 pieces of carrot cake. We planned to do the reverse tour tonight going from there to Glorietas to Tacos on the Street, but we had such a good time, we stayed and drank and listened to music again. 

On Saturday, we had to check out of our room at 11 am but they gave us another room to use for the day because Robyn and Scott were not leaving until 3 pm and we didn't have to leave until 7:30 pm. We had a breakfast of champions as we had to finish off our groceries - ice cream, Nesquik cereal, taco chips with salsa and refried beans, margaritas, coffee with baileys, potato chips and eggs.  Not so delicious.  We spent the day at the pool.  Robyn and Scott left in the afternoon and Jan and I went to La Ballena Blanca for one last time this trip.  Our 10:30 pm flight left on time and we were home in our beds about 4 am.

Another great holiday!

Dolphin swimming with boat







Scotty off the slide

Robyn off the slide

Bob off the second deck

Groovin'


La Ballena Blanca

Adios Mexico!


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