Day 5....are we there yet????

Up nice and early and on the road again. What can I say. I probably would not recommend this drive for a fun family vacation. There is not a lot to see or do along the way. If we drive again, this is not the route we will take. We get to Guadalajara around 3:30.....now it is looking a lot nicer.....green grass and palm trees. That's more like it. We are not far away now......only 40 minutes or so. It is nice to recognize things along the road. The drivers are still crazy but I am starting to get used to it now and just decide to go with the flow. There don't seem to be any sort of road rules so anything goes. After a short time we come over the final hill and there it is.....Lake Chapala. We made it we find the rental and wait for my dad to answer.....he has been here on his own since August 1st since he decided to fly with their cat Angel (smart guy). The rental house is surrounded by a 15 foot wall with 2 big metal doors in the parking area. He opens the gate and we pull in and.......the van does not fit in the parking area.....CRAP. After numerous attempts and angles, still no luck. We park across the street in the hotel parking lot and go for dinner at the hotel, La Nueva Posada, which is only 2 doors away from our rental house - and have a lovely supper on the terrace, by the lake with a Mariachi serranading everyone - this is what it was all about. We met the owner on our way out and had a nice chat - they're from Pickering and have been here 37 years. We explain our parking dilema and ask if it's ok for us to park in their parking lot overnight. She says she will check with her son tomorrow (who actually owns the hotel) but it's fine for tonight. We then talked to another neighbour who told us of a vehicle lockup just a  block away and for only $30 a month, our vehicle will be secure so we go up there and in no time, the van is tucked away for the night and we head off to our first night's sleep in our new temporary home. During the night the heavens opened again and we had an amazing thunder storm with lighting and torrential rain - this is the rainy season after all, but by morning, the sun is out and it's lovely and warm.