December 6, 2008
Our bus feels pretty tropical with all of the screened windows open and the cool breeze drifting through as you can see from PaPa’s picture ….. “relaxed is his name” and he has not had any heart irregularities since being here……the blood sugar count is a bit up and we are trying to keep an eye on that……the food is especially good part of our vacation mode….for me, not cooking very much is good, and for both of us, the delightful assortment of fresh food and fresh fish…..Today, being Saturday, we have a huge vegetable market coming into the park, the shrimp man is coming, and the bread lady, too, ……She makes the best ever bread. Bread is not something the Mexicans eat a lot, but for us, it is a delicacy from home and fresh as can be…..hard to pass up.
There was the first annual golf tournament yesterday. We sort of accidently-on-purpose forgot about it until Shirley came by and announced that she has to go to a meeting but has us already signed up and provided us with her homemade golf club. The rules were that we make our own golf club and ball and wear costumes. You must have a player and a caddy. We had five minutes to get up there and Papa Andy used his fisherman’s hat from home and a scarf made from a dish towel for his costume and we made a ball of wadded paper wrapped with electrical tape. The ball was just big enough to get stuck in the hole on the green. I didn’t know to wear a costume, so I caddied armed with our laundry bag for a golf bag. The thing was pretty hilarious. Many people spend a long time on costumes and the balls were much more golf ball size than ours. Our club with a leaf for the club part lasted about a minute and when the leaf was gone, Andy said it worked much better (more like a baseball bat). I believe with the fines for me not taking the flag out of the hole on the green in time, we also had the highest score! Good thing this was a money-maker for charity and no bets were made on the side (although you were allowed to bribe the officials). Another day is beginning and what adventure is next? We had a wonderful moonlight dinner on Webber’s new house patio last night. They barely had time to sweep up the paint chips from the pressure spraying they are doing and to wind strings of Christmas lights around the balcony rails….it was very tropically romantic….if six people can be called romantic.
Our bus feels pretty tropical with all of the screened windows open and the cool breeze drifting through as you can see from PaPa’s picture ….. “relaxed is his name” and he has not had any heart irregularities since being here……the blood sugar count is a bit up and we are trying to keep an eye on that……the food is especially good part of our vacation mode….for me, not cooking very much is good, and for both of us, the delightful assortment of fresh food and fresh fish…..Today, being Saturday, we have a huge vegetable market coming into the park, the shrimp man is coming, and the bread lady, too, ……She makes the best ever bread. Bread is not something the Mexicans eat a lot, but for us, it is a delicacy from home and fresh as can be…..hard to pass up.
There was the first annual golf tournament yesterday. We sort of accidently-on-purpose forgot about it until Shirley came by and announced that she has to go to a meeting but has us already signed up and provided us with her homemade golf club. The rules were that we make our own golf club and ball and wear costumes. You must have a player and a caddy. We had five minutes to get up there and Papa Andy used his fisherman’s hat from home and a scarf made from a dish towel for his costume and we made a ball of wadded paper wrapped with electrical tape. The ball was just big enough to get stuck in the hole on the green. I didn’t know to wear a costume, so I caddied armed with our laundry bag for a golf bag. The thing was pretty hilarious. Many people spend a long time on costumes and the balls were much more golf ball size than ours. Our club with a leaf for the club part lasted about a minute and when the leaf was gone, Andy said it worked much better (more like a baseball bat). I believe with the fines for me not taking the flag out of the hole on the green in time, we also had the highest score! Good thing this was a money-maker for charity and no bets were made on the side (although you were allowed to bribe the officials). Another day is beginning and what adventure is next? We had a wonderful moonlight dinner on Webber’s new house patio last night. They barely had time to sweep up the paint chips from the pressure spraying they are doing and to wind strings of Christmas lights around the balcony rails….it was very tropically romantic….if six people can be called romantic.
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