December 26th to 31st – New Year’s Eve

The campground internet service was down for 4 days.  The router returns with a new power supply and the service centre in Mexico City works with Vic (the most computer savy person in the park) on this end of the phone to change the settings on the router.  Alas, the router only works for a few hours and then starts once again resetting itself every 5 minutes.  We’ve requested a new router but will one be supplied?  We’re dealing with the reset every few minutes to read our email but it is useless trying to use Skype. The park owners don’t fully understand the problem. I guess that the campers have been saying the service is very slow. It isn’t that the service is very slow. The problem lies with the router resetting. The owner lets us know that they have ordered the line to be upgraded from 1 Megabits to 2 Megabits per second. While that won’t solve the problem, we will gladly accept the upgrade.

Vic has been able to use his boogie board a couple of days.  The surf is not always the greatest to do that kind of activity.  He’s doing quite well compared to some of the local guys. Since the waves are too much for swimming, why not still enjoy the ocean!

 Vic boogies into shore.

While Bev noodles in the surf.

Yesterday, the 6 of us went north along the coast to shop at the market at Zacualpan and then travelled to a lovely beach at Platinitos (southwest of Tepic).  It was hot and humid.

We heard a pecking sound by the clothes line at the rear of the RV and spotted a cinnamon hummingbird checking out the coloured clothes-pegs!  Such a beautiful bird!




Tonight we had reservations for ribs at Arcelia’s Sugar and Spice Café.  Supposed to be the best place in town for ribs and it lived up to it’s reputation with meat so tender it fell of the ribs.  It was a delicious meal of bean and ham soup, ribs/rice/cole slaw, cake and a drink for a total of $230 peso per couple (about $20 Cdn).  We strolled around town to walk off the meal.  The sky looks beautiful with the “Blue Moon” – we have never seen such a huge halo around the moon!  (Blue Moon is when the full moon occurs twice in one calendar month).