Hola, Amigos,
We are just a bit late today....it is still Tuesday, isn't it? We've had a very busy, full weekend with a car show in La Paz, and today, Ben decided to take his 1928 Woody for the parade in San Jose. We left this morning shortly after 7am, and arrived in San Jose about 8:45. We drove through downtown, instead of through town on Highway 1, because the car wasn't running real smooth when Ben first started it. As we went through downtown, we saw that the parade with floats and some cars were already lining up where we have lined up in the past....not anywhere near Mega as we were told to do last Thursday! We drove on over to Mega anyhow, and saw no one, so went on back and lined up with everyone else. And waited. And waited. And waited some more! I'm getting more practice with my Spanish now when folks ask questions about our car. And we had plenty of time to answer questions.
We enjoyed people watching, and seeing all the costumed kids who were wandering around looking for their floats!
The parade finally started at about 10:30 or 11, then we spent a lot of time sitting in line waiting for the floats in front of us to move. Everyone loves this car, and the oogah horn. There must be thousands of photos of this car here in Baja! I even held babies in the window while their parents snapped photos! There was no car show this time, so it was just a quick (Mexican time!) day trip. When we finished the parade, we loaded up the car and headed over to our favorite Carnitas restaurant (we hadn't had breakfast before we left home), and it was delicious, and fortified us for our trip home.
Like I said, we spent the weekend in La Paz at the 8th Spring Car show (Festival de Primavera VIII) . Ben took his '29 Pickup for this one. We were in a parade Saturday night, and spent all day in a park on the Malecon on Sunday so people could walk in and inspect and admire all the cars. That parade started a little more promptly, but we did get slowed down by a garbage truck doing its rounds on Saturday evening on a narrow downtown street! The nice thing about this parade is that it goes down the Malecon at sunset time, so I was able to get some very nice sunset photos.
Here's the '29 Pickup, read to go in the parade.
Please check out our March 2013 Picasa album for many other car show photos, including some very pretty 64 1/2 Mustangs, and lots of Jeeps.
This was another successful show for Ben, because he came away with the prize for the most antique vehicle, and ....TA DA.... BEST of Show. I survived spending the day there all day, usually sitting on a concrete bench. I should get a prize for that!!! Oh yeah.... the Quaker State girls were there, handing out prizes and posing for pictures with the winners. (Ben always likes this part, for some reason).
Here's Manuel handing Ben his plaque for Best of Show.
My prize for that long day was a very nice dinner, with a nice bottle of wine, at the Bismark. We convinced Manuel and his wife Rossy to join us, along with their two daughters, Maria Jose and Maria Margarita (twins, and both world class water polo players). They work so hard putting the affair on, we thought it would be nice treat them to dinner...and Rossy agreed!
I'm hoping for a little bit quieter week at home this next week.... we'll see! Ben did say we need to get the cars out to run more often. I noticed during the parade today that the '29 had 25 miles on the odometer! I guess he's right!
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
We are just a bit late today....it is still Tuesday, isn't it? We've had a very busy, full weekend with a car show in La Paz, and today, Ben decided to take his 1928 Woody for the parade in San Jose. We left this morning shortly after 7am, and arrived in San Jose about 8:45. We drove through downtown, instead of through town on Highway 1, because the car wasn't running real smooth when Ben first started it. As we went through downtown, we saw that the parade with floats and some cars were already lining up where we have lined up in the past....not anywhere near Mega as we were told to do last Thursday! We drove on over to Mega anyhow, and saw no one, so went on back and lined up with everyone else. And waited. And waited. And waited some more! I'm getting more practice with my Spanish now when folks ask questions about our car. And we had plenty of time to answer questions.
We enjoyed people watching, and seeing all the costumed kids who were wandering around looking for their floats!
The parade finally started at about 10:30 or 11, then we spent a lot of time sitting in line waiting for the floats in front of us to move. Everyone loves this car, and the oogah horn. There must be thousands of photos of this car here in Baja! I even held babies in the window while their parents snapped photos! There was no car show this time, so it was just a quick (Mexican time!) day trip. When we finished the parade, we loaded up the car and headed over to our favorite Carnitas restaurant (we hadn't had breakfast before we left home), and it was delicious, and fortified us for our trip home.
Like I said, we spent the weekend in La Paz at the 8th Spring Car show (Festival de Primavera VIII) . Ben took his '29 Pickup for this one. We were in a parade Saturday night, and spent all day in a park on the Malecon on Sunday so people could walk in and inspect and admire all the cars. That parade started a little more promptly, but we did get slowed down by a garbage truck doing its rounds on Saturday evening on a narrow downtown street! The nice thing about this parade is that it goes down the Malecon at sunset time, so I was able to get some very nice sunset photos.
Here's the '29 Pickup, read to go in the parade.
Please check out our March 2013 Picasa album for many other car show photos, including some very pretty 64 1/2 Mustangs, and lots of Jeeps.
Here's Manuel handing Ben his plaque for Best of Show.
My prize for that long day was a very nice dinner, with a nice bottle of wine, at the Bismark. We convinced Manuel and his wife Rossy to join us, along with their two daughters, Maria Jose and Maria Margarita (twins, and both world class water polo players). They work so hard putting the affair on, we thought it would be nice treat them to dinner...and Rossy agreed!
I'm hoping for a little bit quieter week at home this next week.... we'll see! Ben did say we need to get the cars out to run more often. I noticed during the parade today that the '29 had 25 miles on the odometer! I guess he's right!
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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