Exploring, Beaches and Time shares

We had a fairly quiet Christmas, we spent Christmas Eve here at the pool enjoying pizza and singing carols with all of our neighbors. We started off Christmas Day by going out for breakfast then later going to a friend’s house for turkey and all the trimmings with some wonderful company. Their house seems to be a magnet for birds so a few photos were in order.

Christmas decorations at the mall

Al & Diana's for dinner, love their carved chairs

and their cactus cupboards!

We have started what Robin calls a “job” – going on time share presentations “for the money & free stuff”. We “endured” 2.5 hrs sitting through many questions and listening to their spiel, but then to be rewarded with $200 US cash, 2 tickets for whale watching & 2 tickets for a sunset dinner cruise! Also includes a breakfast buffet, not the worst way to spend a morning.

Villas del Arco, the time share presentation location

We continue our Wednesday tradition of going to the movies, Jumanji and The Greatest Showman recently.

We headed off north of San Jose, into the desert fossil hunting – Robin found a fossilized Megladon (shark) tooth very near to where we found one last year! Lots of fossilized shells and whale bones as well, a bit hot though – 32C!

climbing up & down the hillsides

whale bone fossil, the hammer is over a foot long

shell & bone fossils

looking down into the valley

the new Megladon tooth (smaller) & the one from last year

I had my Mastercard “scammed” – the fraud department picked it up – it was used in Puerto Vallarta for over $200, and then declined when they tried again. Not sure how they do this but lucky that we always bring an extra credit card along, since this one had to be cancelled.

We have been enjoying the lovely pool here, now heated, as well as heading to the beaches. We spent New Year’s Day along with hundreds of others at Chileno Beach and later at Medano, watching the 3 cruise ships in there. We have both joined the small group at our pool doing aquasizes every weekday morning, starts the day well.

Chileno Beach

Medano Beach

Somehow we haven’t had time to sit down and get “crafty” – but we finally did spend a day being creative. Robin carved a spirit wood and I made 3 wind chimes using driftwood and beads.

There is a casino near the marina in Cabo (these days who doesn’t have a casino!), which we tried out for the first time. Rather confusing as you play with pesos but the machine displays points which are different. Didn’t really have a clue what I was doing (Robin doesn’t gamble, he hates losing) but it kept us entertained for a good while. Spent about $25 and cashed out $10 so not a complete loss.

We like to keep busy so we visited a glass factory as well as an interesting Mexican handicraft shop. Makes for a few good photos.

We spent a day with our friends, Barb & Bill taking a drive up the coast on the East Cape road, partly paved; partly a terrible dirt road but it got us to a beautiful beach. We were treated to a display of whale tail slapping and breaching as we enjoyed a cold beer and later said hello to a wild burro along the road. We finished the day with a good meal of barbecued ribs in San Jose.

This morning we booked another time share presentation (reluctantly) and have spent the day relaxing, reading and loving the weather – 25-32C daytime, down to 16-20C at night. Living the Dream!

 

a very noisy Gila woodpecker