This and that

While driving around town, we saw a few palapas being repaired because of the hurricane. Raquel told us that a section of our patio roof had been torn off and they had to replace it, as well as the palapa of our neighbours. The plants around our patio were all gone when we got here, now, after less than a week, they are between six and eight inches high already. Soon things will be back to normal.

The streets in most places are usually pretty bad for driving but now they are worse, with puddles everywhere. It will fill in and be back to normal soon. While driving through Jaluco, the paved streets are covered in sand that has washed down from goodness knows where.

We took our first trip to Chiuatlán to pick up a dashcam I had ordered for the car. I enjoy putting together those ridiculous videos of the drivers here. Having said that I got a few scratches on the car and almost killed a garbage can today, and I hadn’t even been drinking…Yet!

Rosalie just commented that the best thing about our trip down here was that we booked our flight back in June and we had no cancellations. Now that’s a novelty!

We went for lunch at Bugambilias as we had only just stocked up our supplies. Though we like eating there, it was disappointing, but fuel for the blog. I will recap a blog I wrote several years ago:

While in Barra one year, I ordered a rib-eye steak; it was a quarter-inch piece of shoe leather. A few weeks later we went for lunch in Melaque and there was rib eye on the menu but not wanting to chance it I ordered the ham steak. I got the same piece of shoe leather as before. Later still, knowing that this trend can’t possibly continue, I once again ordered rib-eye. Guess what? I got the same piece as I had before, tough as leather. I swear it had my teeth marks from before on it, but Rosalie says I’m being ridiculous; as if.

Anyway, Rosalie ordered a ‘surf and turf’ the surf was fine but the turf was that same f**king piece of shoe leather I had previously ‘enjoyed’ – Not. I was so mad I only tipped them 20%. We went home so that Rosalie could calm me down with a few glasses of wine and an Agavero. Incidentally, it’s so hot at the moment that before I had finished my Agavero my wine got warm. It’s not all fun and games here in Pinal Villa.

We’ve been coming here since 2005; some things have changed but not a lot really. The people are just as awesome as they always were. A few more buildings have gone up and there has been some damage from the storms; other than that it’s still the beautiful paradise we have always loved and looked forward to.