Hola Amigos,
This morning finds us with sunshine, clear skies, and no wind, so far! We have had some fairly cloudy days in the last week, and the Lord of the Wind Showdown event managed to get enough windy days to have some very good competitions. One of my neighbors placed 2nd in the Stand Up Paddle Board competition! Way to go, John!
Ben and I visited Casa Cal Sunday afternoon, which is right on the beach with a great view of the competition. We went to visit with our Eugene friend, Jack Gossard, but I took advantage of the view and got a few pictures, too!
Right outside the gate!
A colorful mess of kites!
Anyhow, driving through Los Barriles main street during the last week was a joke! The street is so narrow, and parking is allowed most places, and the businesses, for the most part, don't have parking available, so with all the people here, it's rather difficult wiggling your way through! We tried to avoid it as much as possible, but our favorite restaurant is on the other end of town! Oh, no!!!
Our dogs have been enjoying having Button come over to play. She is the pup of our friend Pat, and she has learned how to get in the middle and play tug of war with them. She is a light-weight, so Zoey still pulls everyone around, but it is cute to watch! Our rugs do tend to get messed up when this game is going on!!
Ryan has been busy this week entertaining his friends, so we haven't seen much of him! Lots to do and see when vacation time is short! They are heading back to Portland this afternoon, so hope to get in some beach time this morning. They went to La Paz yesterday to swim with the Whale Sharks! Hopefully, they had some wet suits...I think the water is cooling down somewhat. Probably in the low 70's these days.
An update on our truck from last week: Evidently it was the low energy batteries that were causing the problems. Ben bought new ones, and the problems went away. They couldn't find any issues when they did diagnostics on it after installing the new batteries. Yeay! It cost us very little for the work they did, so all those trips to the ATM in preparations for a big bill means we probably won't have to visit an ATM again for the rest of the month!!
It's time for you fence-sitters to plan your vacation to visit us. How can you miss some perfect beach walking time like this? Even Zoey was walking close to the water this day!
We did find out the other day that two sets of friends are going to arrive on their cruise ship in Cabo San Lucas on Feb 1. We've made plans to go have lunch with at least one set to visit with them. The friends don't know each other; one couple is my Uncle David and Aunt Evelyn from Harrisburg. The other is Mike and Ruth (he's our Model A mechanic) from Bend. Maybe they'll manage to meet each other on the ship! And maybe there'll be six of us for lunch, but Aunt Evelyn said she was thinking about signing up for the snorkling cruise when in Cabo. We'll see!
One of the nice things about cloudy days is the chance of a beautiful sunrise or sunset. Here is a sunset from our roof-top from a few days ago.
I'll be adding some more photos to our 2015 January Album this morning. Thanks to friend Jill for reminding me to make it public so you can look at them, too!
FYI, our church is going to have a Ladies Retreat here March 20 - 21, so if any of you are interested, let me know and I'll send you more information.
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
This morning finds us with sunshine, clear skies, and no wind, so far! We have had some fairly cloudy days in the last week, and the Lord of the Wind Showdown event managed to get enough windy days to have some very good competitions. One of my neighbors placed 2nd in the Stand Up Paddle Board competition! Way to go, John!
Ben and I visited Casa Cal Sunday afternoon, which is right on the beach with a great view of the competition. We went to visit with our Eugene friend, Jack Gossard, but I took advantage of the view and got a few pictures, too!
Anyhow, driving through Los Barriles main street during the last week was a joke! The street is so narrow, and parking is allowed most places, and the businesses, for the most part, don't have parking available, so with all the people here, it's rather difficult wiggling your way through! We tried to avoid it as much as possible, but our favorite restaurant is on the other end of town! Oh, no!!!
Our dogs have been enjoying having Button come over to play. She is the pup of our friend Pat, and she has learned how to get in the middle and play tug of war with them. She is a light-weight, so Zoey still pulls everyone around, but it is cute to watch! Our rugs do tend to get messed up when this game is going on!!
Ryan has been busy this week entertaining his friends, so we haven't seen much of him! Lots to do and see when vacation time is short! They are heading back to Portland this afternoon, so hope to get in some beach time this morning. They went to La Paz yesterday to swim with the Whale Sharks! Hopefully, they had some wet suits...I think the water is cooling down somewhat. Probably in the low 70's these days.
An update on our truck from last week: Evidently it was the low energy batteries that were causing the problems. Ben bought new ones, and the problems went away. They couldn't find any issues when they did diagnostics on it after installing the new batteries. Yeay! It cost us very little for the work they did, so all those trips to the ATM in preparations for a big bill means we probably won't have to visit an ATM again for the rest of the month!!
It's time for you fence-sitters to plan your vacation to visit us. How can you miss some perfect beach walking time like this? Even Zoey was walking close to the water this day!
We did find out the other day that two sets of friends are going to arrive on their cruise ship in Cabo San Lucas on Feb 1. We've made plans to go have lunch with at least one set to visit with them. The friends don't know each other; one couple is my Uncle David and Aunt Evelyn from Harrisburg. The other is Mike and Ruth (he's our Model A mechanic) from Bend. Maybe they'll manage to meet each other on the ship! And maybe there'll be six of us for lunch, but Aunt Evelyn said she was thinking about signing up for the snorkling cruise when in Cabo. We'll see!
One of the nice things about cloudy days is the chance of a beautiful sunrise or sunset. Here is a sunset from our roof-top from a few days ago.
I'll be adding some more photos to our 2015 January Album this morning. Thanks to friend Jill for reminding me to make it public so you can look at them, too!
FYI, our church is going to have a Ladies Retreat here March 20 - 21, so if any of you are interested, let me know and I'll send you more information.
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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