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Day 6 • Monday, February 21

Up around 9:00am. I have been given a mission. Our niece is going to be in a school play on Thursday for her English class. She is going to be the sun and I have been asked to help make her costume. I do some sketches and they are delighted with what I have come up with. Chuy and I pop into town and buy some material to make the “flames”. Back home, pick up the video camera and head out to the Hotel Zone. We are going to tape the length on the zone during the day (we have some it taped but it was night time and not as pretty).

We stop at El Shrimp Bucket at 11:30...is it open??? Yep! and who pulls in at the exact same time but our friend Mauricio. I love to go here during the day...looking out over the lagoon at the hotels, a nice breeze blowing in and great salsa playing while having the place almost to ourselves. We order a 1/2 kilo of cold shrimp and a plate of nachos. We talk with Mauricio as we are finishing up and then say our goodbyes until next trip. Hey! Where is the huge flag??? I had notice a few days ago that the red area had a lot of holes in it...hummmmm.

Off we go taping. All the way down to El Mirador. What a view!!!!! We drive back up and even go back to the street all those huge homes are on at the golf course on the top part of the HZ. They are building a new one. We were hoping someone would be there working so we could maybe get a tour but it looks like they are all at lunch or something. Well, the flag is back up, and it looks funny, uneven. Seems that they removed part of the red area where the holes were. Wonder if they will replace the red part so it is even. I know that the flag costed the state a lot of money. We’ll have to wait and see.

We arrive at Los Bisquette’s de Obregon at 1:30 and order some pastries/pan and read the local paper to see what properties are for sale. We plan to eventually buy some land and apartment buildings. At 2:20 Maria, husband Franciso, and the new baby arrive. How sweet she is. Mom has put socks on her little hands cause she is scratching her face in her sleep. The baby has confused night and day...seems she sleeps most of the day and is up all night. She was born January 22 and named Katherine. I get to hold the baby while Maria eats. We catch up then drop them off where they need to pay their electric bill and then head home.

Chuy heads out to meet his friend Jose. They are going to the Hard Rock to buy pins for Chuy’s coworkers here at home. I go upstairs to the hammock and put a big dent in my book. Mari comes in around 6:00 and I come downstairs and we start working on the sun. I make about 20 “flames”, we color them yellow with the tips orange. Then we brush glue over them and sprinkle gold glitter on them. I then cut a circle out of heavy cardboard and cut a circle out for Alexia’s face. We put a string through it to tie in the back, then glue on the flames. She is happy with the end product.

Chuy comes home around 7:30 with a rose for me and his mom and announces we are going out with Jose and a 20-year old girl from Nebraska he met at work. Upstairs for quick showers and we meet them at Planet Hollywood around 9:30. Jose has taken the night off but has to do the “Mask” show at 10:30. I order Chicken Crunch (not on the menu but they will make it if you ask, chicken breaded with Captain Crunch cereal). The Nebraska gal (can’t remember her name, sorry) is throwing back the beers and yelling for me to join her in the conga line while Chuy tapes. We say our goodbyes and all head to Senior Frogs.

We arrive there around 11:45 and the place is packed. Of course, Jose knows everyone so we don’t have to stand in the long line. I see an old friend from Carlos N Charlies who now works at Frogs and say hello. I can’t figure out why he is acting so strange. I later realize he is way drunk. Poor Johnny! Watching him trying to count money was too funny.

We all pile out onto the dance floor and attempt to shake our booties. No sooner do we get into a groove when they stop the music for a contest...we roll our eyes as we watch what these girls will do for a free t-shirt (of course they end up telling them they have to expose their breasts to win, oh well). Two of them end up going down the slide into the lagoon. We take a time out...the dance floor is an oven and we find two bar stools and plant ourselves down. At 2:00am we decide it’s time to move on to DadyOs. First, Jose has to take the gal from Nebraska back to her hotel to ask mom and dad if she can stay out past her curfew. We are to wait 20 minutes. If they don’t come back, mom and day said no and we will go home.

Chuy is feeling pretty good, seems Jose has fed him about 5 beers and since Chuy really doesn’t drink much, he is feeling the affects. We park the car and go into the small restaurant attached to DadyOs and he orders an omelette. After about 15 minutes we see Jose’s car. But they have already gone in. Chuy doesn’t want to pay the $140 pesos to get in. He announces he is a little tipsy and has had enough, time to go home. Fine with me, I can’t seem to stop yawning. We tell the car attendant we are leaving--and ask him to tell Jose that Chuy wasn’t feeling well, and we went home. I drive. We hit the hammock about 3:00.


Day 7 • Tuesday, February 22

We sleep until noon. Chuy needs to buy some gifts for friends so we head off to Mercado 28. First things first...we are hungry and I suggest El Cejas since I wanted to go the last time I was in Cancun but it was closed (it was around 2:30 so I don’t know why...). I asked if they still closed around 4:00pm and he said they stayed open later--6ish or later if there are a lot of people. Chuy pointed out the owner and told me how this place started out as only one “stall” and has now taken over all 5-6 stalls in that row. I had a fried whole fish and Chuy had 3 orders of cherviche--he can’t get enough of that stuff. We shared flan for dessert.

We walk around some of the stores and he picks out a sun/moon ceramic and I a cat for friends. I thought the prices marked on them were reasonable, but because of his communicating in spanish, we got about $90 pesos off the price for both of them!

After that we hopped back into the car and stopped at the bank he has his “retirement fund” in. Seems that they only have in the computer 2 of his 8 1/2 years at Carlos N Charlies, but luckily both years at Planet Hollywood. The employer opens these accounts and makes the deposits but they do not use social security numbers (Chuy’s is about 20 numbers long!). So from time to time they get lazy to look up the account number and just open another account. These means that we have to go visiting numerous banks to get printouts of the deposits, then bring them back so all these accounts can be consolidated.

He is too tired to deal with this today. We drive around the expo area looking at homes/properties for sale. We arrive home around 4:00pm and both climb into the hammock for a siesta and book reading.

We come downstairs around 7:00 and have a dinner of breaded beef at the house. All of a sudden we hear cousin Jamie screaming from the front of the store (she works there for mom). Seems a snake is starting his way into the store. It is poisonous so we get a shovel and plant it down hard right behind it’s head. No matter how hard Fernando pushes on the shovel, we can split the snake and the rest of his body is doing some kind of wild dance trying to get free. Meanwhile, customers are coming into the store and Jamie is still scared to death that it is going to get free. Someone has the bright idea to put paper under the body and light it. This works enough to get the thing out in the middle of the road. We pile rubbish on top of it and Jamie tells us to put chilies in there too, as the smell of the burning chilies will keep other snakes away. So we add some newspaper and torch the pile. This goes on for about 20 minutes. Chuy keeps adding to the fire, guess it’s a guy thang. You could see the charred remains of the snake...it was still there 2 days later when we left!

Chuy needs to go over to his brother’s (where he used to live until he came to the states). He has to go through all the papers he left behind to see what needed to be brought home with us, and also look for receipts for the retirement thang. We are there about an hour and drop by his sister’s on the way home for a short visit. We hit the hammock around 10:00pm.

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