Pic-of-the-Week for April 16, 2013

Hola Amigos!

Now that the home improvement projects we've been working on are done, we have more time to do some fun things.  Let's see.... Ben has been attempting to rebuild a spare Model A carburetor (doesn't that sound fun?), and I've been doing "girly" things; going to a style show and on a fun adventure to find the cave paintings.  

Sorry I don't have any photos of the carburetor rebuild, but I do have some others of my outings.  The style show was the annual ALMA affair, and it was a lot of fun.  ALMA is the animal organization here that rescues and neuters dogs and cats.  The show is one of their popular money makers, and it's held in a beach side restaurant at Hotel Palmas de Cortez.  I took our friend Pat, and we had trouble finding seating, but ended up in primo seats out on the deck.  This was my view of the models as they walked by!
 
 We had fun, and I took the opportunity to buy a new dress!  
And this is my friend Janet, who is opening a clothing shop down here as soon as she gets her Mexican paperwork for running a business.  Everyone (at least the local ladies) are very excited about her opening a store with reasonably priced (and really nice) clothing. 

 Yesterday, Janet, her visiting sister-in-law Gwen and I took a "girl's day" trip.  Gwen wanted to see some Indian rock paintings, and I happened to have it marked on our GPS, so the three of us drove north to Boca del Alamo on the coast road, found some roads heading west, and eventually found the spot! 

There was a truck parked at the base of the trail, and when we hiked up to the paintings, we discovered some archeologists there doing some research.  We used a bit of Spanish, and she used a bit of English, and we learned a few new things. She even posed for a picture with us! 

When you want to find those cave paintings, just look for this feature in the nearby mountain side...

 It looks like a big old cathedral up there on the mountain!  And who knows...maybe the rock with the paintings was from there?!?  Of course, the GPS was pretty helpful, too!

We took another road out, and here's another marker for you.  Just look for the totem pole at Boca del Alamo, and take then next road to the left at the bottom of the hill past it.  This was done by "los ninos de Boca del Alamo".  Boca means mouth in Spanish.  Notice the mouth near the bottom?  Cute!

We took the coast road back, and stopped off at Hotel Punta Pescadero for lunch.  Yeah, it's tough to sit there and enjoy this view, but someone has to do it.  By the way, Gwen is from Eugene, and knows my Aunt Evelyn and our friend Ellis's Mom Berniece and his sister Donna.... it was fun exchanging histories with her!

 Lots of cacti are in bloom right now, including some in our yard.  We have a couple varieties of cholla, and here are a couple blooms from them.

There are a bunch more photos of our hike to the paintings and other items of interest in our April 2013 Picasa album.  

We're picking up brother John today... he'll be spending about a week with us, and we're looking forward to that.

Hasta la proxima semana
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey