December already

How quickly the time has flown.  It has been one month since we left home and 2 weeks since we arrived in Lo de Marcos.  More northerners are arriving each day to settle in the RV parks here for the winter. 

The veggie/fruit/eggs truck and the bread truck come to our RV park on Tuesdays and Fridays.  We walk into town for dairy items, fresh fish and meat. (each at a different specialty store) The local lady butcher has very lean smoked pork chops, bacon and lean ground beef.  She shows you the meat before she slices it or grinds it to your specification.  And of course all are cheap: $70 pesos ($5.38 CAD) for 1 kg of beef, $60 pesos ($4.62 CAD) for 1 kg of pork chops, 80 pesos for bacon that is very lean.  We are getting pesos at about 13 to our Cdn dollar so you can do the math and see that the prices are very affordable. Fish has been little more expensive this year.  Our fresh tuna steaks were $35 ($2.69 CAD)pesos for .35 kg. and our durado fillets (mahi-mahi) were $70 pesos ($5.38 CAD) for 1/2 kg.  A shopping bag of fresh fruit and vegetables is usually $30 pesos ($2.31 CAD)

Bev is back to making orange juice with our citrus juicer.  The juicing oranges are green and mottely looking but they make juice that is so sweet.

The nights have turned cooler.  The overnight temperature now  is 17C.  The ocean temperature has dropped to 80F.   The daytime temperature is 28C and not as humid as when we first arrived. Mornings are the time for walking. We spend a couple of hours each afternoon at the beach socializing, enjoying the ocean breeze, reading and swimming. Boogie-boarding has been less than ideal.

One morning while we were all sitting in the shade of a tree next to our site, an unusual bug landed on our friend's arm.  Vic managed to snap a photo of the bug on her arm and again when it returned to the tree.

Today is the first day of the 12 day festival honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe.  The churches ignite fireworks repeatedly for 15 minutes at midnight and again at 4:30 am every day for 12 days. The noise can be heard all over town. Luckily we have only 1 church in our town.  A Mexican lady told us it is very loud in Mexico City with the number of churches there! Note: they aren't really fire works, just cannon that shoots a projectile into the sky and they go BOOM. No colour, just a big boom. We just cannot grasp the concept.