Shelley here......well a while has past and I am really bad at updating this daily. Just so much to do during the day.....well......not really but it is suprising how time flies when your not doing too much. it also doesn't help that I usually sleep til 9:30 or so then have to do the breakfast and get ready so by the time you get out the house to go and do whatever it is already around 12 or 1.
We are slowly getting settled in the house but in the lst day we have had 2 not so pleasant things happen. We have found ticks on Flash GROSS!!!!!! and we have a leak somewhere in our pool. We think we have figured out where it is and it seems to be on the small jacuzzi section so hopefully Trevor can get it fixed up the tiles were lifting off one of the seats so we will need to fix the leak and then tile that spot again. Luckily there is lots of extra pool tiles in the bodega ( storage shed). With flash we discovered yesterday 3 big female ticks on him and 1 male. If you don't know what they look like google it. They are really gross and the females are huge as they grab hold and suck the dogs blood. We gave him a good bath and have been checking him since it will take up to 24 to 48 hours for any others to drop off if there are any more.
Other then that all is well here. We went to an open jam night at a place called El Bar Co. in Ajijic last week and it was great. We met up with our new friend Summer who is from Washington state and now living in Ajijic. There was a wide reange of people from 25 to 85 and everyone was having a good time dancing and drinking. The next day we bumped into the bass player from the night before and had lunch together at Wing's Army. He is from California and has been here over 3 years now but has also lived in other parts of Mexico before finding Lake Chapala. It is great just walking down the street and actually bumping into people we know and everyone here is so friendly.
This week we also ventured to Guadalajara to go to Costco. We took the long way around thry Jocotapec and it took about 1 1/2 hours to get there but it is right off the highway so really easy to get to really but drivers here are loco and there are no road rules so you have to be careful. If you get in an accident here and anyone gets hurt EVERYONE goes to jail and they figure it out after the fact. But I am not in a rush so if someone wants to pass, I move over and let them. It is not worth the headache.
On Friday night Trev and I were going to go see the Tall boys play at the Beer Gardens in Chapala but when we got down town there was a huge festival going on. Each village has it's own saint and this weekend was the party to worship their saint. So while we are sitting in the beer gardens waiting for the band to start a big band comes on right outside and there was no way we would be able to here the band in the bar since it is all open to the outside. So we figured we would just go outside and enjoy the free festival and entertainment. There was a big band playing on a stage by the pier, fireworks and rides.
Right outside the church there was a big structure all wired with fireworks. I guy would light a section off his cigarette and it would spin around sending ambers into the crowd and when a big buring piece would fall off the kids would run up to grab it and then play with it....like poke it with sticks and stuff. No such thing as helath and safety here folks. Trev and I were about 30 feet away from it and you could taste the grit in your mouth from it and we both had ash on our shirts. Then every once and a while a big firework would go off above us. The grand finally if this fireworks extravaganza was that these wheels start spinningo on the top and then brake free, and like a frisbee they fly over the crowd.....and then fall INTO the crowd. They loved it kids run to try to be there when it lands and then the church bells start to ring and the party os over :(
We are finally done with that dumpy rental!!! We went and cleaned it up and then turned in the key. I am happy to never have to step foot in that place again.
Now this weekend all I really wanted to do is sit around in the sun, swim and relax and we were doing pretty well til the pool level dropped 2 feet over night pretty much. But hey..........can we really complain?! I mean we still have it pretty good so I try not to complain or worry about it too much. It will get fixed..and we still have the big pool so all is not lost. lol
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