Puerto Vallarta, Jal, MX, In my “Office” Bathed by Sunlight…finally I’ve put aside the fear of typing with my carpal tunnel crippled fingers to start “blogging” again. The med people say it’ll be 9-10 months before the hands gets significantly better, it’s already been 6 without any improvement, so life moves along. The “new” knees are doing wonderfully, allowing me to almost keep up with Dolores.
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| A Reminder - from Seattle Office |
We returned to sunny Puerto Vallarta barely ahead of a significant winter storm. There was a “light” dusting of snow the previous day and an hour delay for airplane de-icing before departure. Arriving in L.A. we were told that our connecting flight would be two hours late. Seems when we setup our return flight to PV in June Alaska put us on an early flight going to Mexico City with a connection in L.A. to Puerto Vallarta. What we didn’t know was the connecting flight also originated in Seattle two hours later with a stop in LA on its way to PV, and guess what, it did get caught by the winter storm, hence the two hour delay. Only on the way to Mexico!
Arriving at our condo at 7:00PM instead of 4:00PM we found the local boys and girls still waiting in the street for our arrival. What a great greeting (plus our7 pieces of luggage delivered up to the condo).
We traveled to San Sebastian to an outdoor Thanksgiving repast at the Hacienda, hosted by Pamela Thompson and her son, Joe, complete with several pit roasted turkeys, all the trimmings and pies. Approximately 30+ celebrant’s boarded the Volvo bus for the trip and return in beautiful weather and through fantastic mountain scenery.
We traveled to San Sebastian to an outdoor Thanksgiving repast at the Hacienda, hosted by Pamela Thompson and her son, Joe, complete with several pit roasted turkeys, all the trimmings and pies. Approximately 30+ celebrant’s boarded the Volvo bus for the trip and return in beautiful weather and through fantastic mountain scenery.
Dolores' Essence of Cuisine Cooking School (www.essenceofcuisine.com) has been very busy this season, starting with eight classes in December and continuing on through the first two months of 2011 with several already scheduled into April.
We’ve just returned from a three day jaunt to Tonala/Tlaquepaque (suburbs NE of Guadalajara) where we purchased a new oil scene of a fruit market and acquired another ”multi-lens” objet d’art in Tonala. There were 36 “shoppers” on the trip and everyone made some great acquisitions (including 3 other multi-lens).
