Visit with Family

After our great passage from Mazatlan back to Paradise Village we got wonderful news. Rog's brother Bob would be visiting us for a few day and after a bit of encouragement decided to bring his wife Dale and daughter Karen Brita along. We weren't sure how they would respond to life aboard Di's Dream and all that goes along with boating but they adjusted very quickly. The plan was to run the air conditioner and leave the water heater turned off which would mean going up to the yacht club for showers. There was no food on the boat as we would be leaving PV right after they departed so all meals had to be eaten out, oh darn. But we could go shopping and we proceeded to do lots of that. We kept it very simple and went up to the Paradise mall for fajitas which Karen Brita insisted were the best thing since sliced bread. There was absolutely no problem getting her to eat her veggies! A bit of ice cream after dinner became the norm with great discussions about the best flavor. I think another trip will be required to make a final decision. On Sunday we took the boat over to Yalapa with plans to get a slice of lemon meringue pie from the Yalapa Pie Landy. I do not know how long she has been selling pies by the slice on the beach but I know we have been enjoying a slice on every visit since 2001. And I wonder why I have a problem keeping my weight down while cruising! Karen Brita also tried fajitas for lunch while Dale and I decided to have an umbrella drink. In fact I think quite a few fluffy drinks were enjoyed over their four day visit. Monday we enjoyed an afternoon at the beach here in Paradise after a trip to La Cruz for breakfast at Ana Bananas. We were trying very hard to get an entire season of cruising fun into their short visit and I think we were quite successful. Of course No visit to PV is complete without a evening spent enjoying Rythems of the Night. It is a dance show held on the south shore of Banderas Bay in a jungle setting. You can only get there by boat so once again we were on the water. A lighting show and downpour came as an added benefit to the evening but luckily not until we were headed back on the boat. It was an evening we will all remember. Rythems of the Night is a modern dance with a Cerc de Soleil feel to it. A bit of gymnastics along with fire dancing and juggling in a Mayan motif. And the dancers, they had muscles on to of muscles! I have never seen anything quite like it. There was one more boat trip planned and it was a ponga trip into old town. Karen Brita wanted to do a bit more shopping so I thought the river area was the place to go so we headed off around 10am and shopped until we couldn't carry anymore. By 5pm we had returned by way of the city bus, our adventure over. Bob and his family left early on Wednesday and now the job of putting the boat away for the summer has started in earnest. Rog is cleaning the bilge, defrosting the refrig, varnishing all the wood and doing all sorts of other maintainence jobs. The boat is looking tip top.