Tuesday is a rainy day so we head south to Bucerias to shop. Everyone else had the same idea! The traffic on Hwy 200 going south is heavy and the Walmart parking lot is packed! Luckily we didn’t need to stop at Walmart but did go into Home Depot in Puerto Vallarta looking for a fitting for reservoir for our hydraulic leveller.
On our return to Lo De Marcos, we stop at an Internet café to check our mail. Wow! News from home that our granddaughter, Maxine Anne, had been born previous day! It is our first grandchild and we are the last ones to know. We purchase a sign for the front of our RV saying “ES UN NINA”. We drive up to the north end of town, to use the Internet at our friends campground to SKYPE to our son & his wife. It was great to be able to video conference to view our new born granddaughter – what a joy!
Later that evening, the rain becomes very heavy. We lost satellite TV reception just 5 minutes from the end of the first episode of Lost. Then high winds came and we, like other RV owners, were outside in the pouring rain preventing our awnings from being torn off. We were successful at our campground as there was no damage but at another campground down the road, 3 RVers had their awnings destroyed.
Wednesday morning we wake up to find no hydro, therefore no water as the pumps are electric. Many of the towns along this coast are without hydro and the state is busy working to restore hydro. We are warned that we may be without water for a day. Luckily all of us have water tanks in our RVs and generators if necessary.
Telmex shows up at 3 pm today to fix the phone line and Internet connection. The phone line has been down since Saturday and Internet since Sunday. They get it up and running and upgrade the internet service to double incoming traffic and triple outgoing --- Bonus!!
An hour later hydro and therefore water is restored. This is the first cool day we’ve had since we arrived in Lo De Marcos on December 10th. It only reached 21C today – yes, I know that sounds warm to you northeners but when you’ve been used to 30C every day, this feels chilly! We stick with our shorts but many of our neighbours are in jeans and shorts. For the second day in a row, it rains off and on, without a hint of sun.
Having the Internet back allows us to Skype our kids to get up to date and of course the see more of baby Maxine Anne. It also allows us to go online an order tickets for the NASCAR race at Martinsville Virginia for March 27 & 28th. Eat your heart out Randall!
Thursday starts out sunny but partly cloudy. Our walk on the beach started out under cloudy skies. Later on it was interrupted by the rain. At first we thought we could wait it out sitting under a palapa. But looking over the ocean we could see more coming, so we had to walk back in the rain. We were soaked.
Bev hasn’t been able to do laundry yet this week as the clothes must be dried on a line – no dryers here! Luckily we have brought enough to go for 2 weeks without doing a laundry if necessary. While in Mexico, if it doesn’t get done today…there is always manana.
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