Hola Amigos!
We have been having a great time the last several weeks! We have been back in the Los Frailes wilderness, been to the big city of San Jose for a fancy night, had a Paella cooking class, toured around on the Baja 300 race course (before the race!) and other assorted fun things. We also celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary on January 27th. Wow!
Our friend Perla surprised us with a cake for our anniversary... It was so cute! She got all the details, down to our two little black dachshunds! The shot with us was the next day, and the cake cover kind of smashed the little people down into the beach, but the fresh look from the night before is just precious.
The day after our anniversary, we had our friends Hector Manuel and Rosi Amarillas come from La Paz and give us a Paella cooking class. It was fun AND delicious!
She made the final dish in her father-in-law's 50 year old aluminum Paella pan. They brought chicken thighs, pork ribs, little clams, shrimp and other goodies to add to the final dish, and it was wonderful to watch and to eat. (Thank you Ryan, for buying the Paella rice...she forgot to buy some in La Paz, and what you bought was just perfect.)
She even fixed up Ben's Mole sauce. She added a touch of peanut butter and a teaspoon more of brown sugar. It was very tasty with the Paella.
Good news here in Los Barriles....they are finally paving the street they've been working on for over a year. The street goes from here next to Tio Pablo's restaurant up the hill to the LB Delegacion, then on out to Hwy. 1. They are only paving to just past the Delegacion for now. It also goes right by our church building, so we may be parking a distance away while that new concrete cures before driving on it. (Ben, the old ODOT employee, says 7 days). They do have some nice equipment (again; Ben was impressed!)
We took a couple days to go to town and celebrate. Karan's birthday was the 26th, and our anniversary was the 27th, so we went to San Jose del Cabo. We stayed at the Tropicana, an old hotel in downtown that is in the center of everything, and has a nice pool and very good restaurant. We decided to have dinner on Karan's birthday at the restaurant of her choice, and ended up at Don Sanchez, which was right next door. Delicious! We each ordered 26 oz. Rib Eye steaks and split them with our spouses.
We have been having a great time the last several weeks! We have been back in the Los Frailes wilderness, been to the big city of San Jose for a fancy night, had a Paella cooking class, toured around on the Baja 300 race course (before the race!) and other assorted fun things. We also celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary on January 27th. Wow! 
Our friend Perla surprised us with a cake for our anniversary... It was so cute! She got all the details, down to our two little black dachshunds! The shot with us was the next day, and the cake cover kind of smashed the little people down into the beach, but the fresh look from the night before is just precious.The day after our anniversary, we had our friends Hector Manuel and Rosi Amarillas come from La Paz and give us a Paella cooking class. It was fun AND delicious!
She made the final dish in her father-in-law's 50 year old aluminum Paella pan. They brought chicken thighs, pork ribs, little clams, shrimp and other goodies to add to the final dish, and it was wonderful to watch and to eat. (Thank you Ryan, for buying the Paella rice...she forgot to buy some in La Paz, and what you bought was just perfect.)
She even fixed up Ben's Mole sauce. She added a touch of peanut butter and a teaspoon more of brown sugar. It was very tasty with the Paella.
Good news here in Los Barriles....they are finally paving the street they've been working on for over a year. The street goes from here next to Tio Pablo's restaurant up the hill to the LB Delegacion, then on out to Hwy. 1. They are only paving to just past the Delegacion for now. It also goes right by our church building, so we may be parking a distance away while that new concrete cures before driving on it. (Ben, the old ODOT employee, says 7 days). They do have some nice equipment (again; Ben was impressed!)
We took a couple days to go to town and celebrate. Karan's birthday was the 26th, and our anniversary was the 27th, so we went to San Jose del Cabo. We stayed at the Tropicana, an old hotel in downtown that is in the center of everything, and has a nice pool and very good restaurant. We decided to have dinner on Karan's birthday at the restaurant of her choice, and ended up at Don Sanchez, which was right next door. Delicious! We each ordered 26 oz. Rib Eye steaks and split them with our spouses.
Ben got a good photo of the resident parrot at the Tropicana. He was better than a rooster in the morning when he got very vocal! I'm sure he woke up everyone in our hotel, and some down the street!
Another January celebration is our granddaughter Eleanor's 3rd birthday on the 28th. She loves everything pink, including the pink frosting on her birthday cupcakes! (Yes, her talented Mom made and frosted them).
On our way home from San Jose, we stopped off in Miraflores, and decided to go home the "old" way to Santiago, which also happened to be at least part of the course for the race that was run this Saturday. No pictures of the race, this time, but the drive on the old Baja roads was fun. We saw "pig on a rope" at several places (fattening it up for you know what).
One last time, we took the drive out to Los Frailes to help set up Mel and Katie's new place. They had the 5th wheel in place by the time we got there, but Ben installed a great little stairway he built to make the steps more manageable (5" each) for Katie from one level of the camp to the other. She was thrilled! It is lightweight, so they can pick it up and move it to a safe place while they are gone.
Believe it or not, more photos are in our January 2017 album. It includes a few more photos and videos of making Paella and the Frailes rancho set-up. I think you probably believe all we do is eat good food all the time, and you're not far off! (We ate a wonderful meal at Frailes, too!) So, if you've got a hankering for some good Mexican food, come on down!
Tom & Karan are leaving tomorrow, but are already planning their trip for next year (start earlier, stay longer...) and have put a deposit down on a place to rent. We've had a great time with them, and are sorry to see them leave.
Hasta la proxima vez,
Tus amigos de Baja
Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey
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