Mark and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
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| Christmas Eve in Sayulita |
Although we miss our family and friends during this holiday season, we are enjoying the eclectic festivities of our new home. It is difficult to imagine the cold weather and snow back in Michigan, when everyday it is sunny, hot and 80 degrees...The locals have done their best to get in the holiday spirit and have decorated the plaza with a tree and several gringos have decorated their casa's with lights.
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| Many Tienda's painted their windows with holiday messages |
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| Christmas tree made out of cloth and chicken wire |
We celebrated Christmas Eve by eating tacos on the street (literally sitting in wood chairs on the street) at our favorite taco restaurant...(Itacate...)...Shrimp tacos for me, Arrachera & Chorizo tacos for Mark...accompanied by a cold Pacifico...
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| "Itacate restaurant" |
After dinner, we spent time walking around the village, just enjoying the sights, sounds and people watching...the last few days there have been tons of new arrivals in town...mostly gringos that are renting casa's for the holidays...all of the restaurants are busy as were the street vendors...The plaza was full of people singing and dancing...what a great place to sit and take it all in...
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| People watching in the plaza |
We capped off the evening with a visit to our favorite "Tienda'" to do our nightly grocery shopping...first stop was the bread man (who sells his fresh bake goods out of the back of his pick up truck)... just a few other items were needed as well... (eggs, yogurt, bananas, garlic, avocado, and organic peanut butter...)
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| They don't come any fresher than this... |
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| Bread man, he makes the best whole wheat bread in town.... |
We took a stroll down by the ocean, almost a full moon tonight, watching a few die hard surfers waiting for their last good wave...and then it was a beautiful walk back to our casa, under the guidance of our flash lights...
A wonderful Sayulita Christmas Eve...
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| Night time palm (looks like snow in the background) |
Christmas day we will take the local bus to the Puerto Vallarta airport where we will wait for the arrival of Dylan, Logan and Andy...a short taxi ride back to Sayulita (approx 35-40 minutes) and get them settled in to our casa....we are very excited to have them join us for a couple of weeks and to show them our new world, our new life...our new daily adventures....
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| Sayulita Sunrise |
They are looking forward to spending lots of time at the beach, surfing, boogie boarding, stand up paddle boarding, snorkeling, scuba diving, sailing, kayaking and a little time relaxing and reading...I am sure we will have many great adventures together and tons of stories to tell...
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| Mark's new board shorts and boogie board, the waves were huge today |
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| Practicing stand up paddle boarding on a calmer day |
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| Surf boards and stand up paddle boards for rent on every corner |
We wish you all a safe and happy holiday season with your families and we look forward to hearing from you when you get a chance...
See you in 2013......
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