Lazy Sunday

Lazy Sunday

We spent a lazy day today. Roy was busy on his computer doing a fantasy football draft and organising his teams, while I was busy emailing and phoning people.

Today is my middle brothers 50 th birthday, hard to believe that the little disturber/instigator is that old. Anyway I figured I'd better give him a call, we hadn't talked for a long time and it was nice to connect again. I then decided to give one of Roys sisters a call and we also had a nice chat. Then one of my nephews beeped via MSN and we chatted for a few minutes with their voice chat, so much easier than typing.

I took a look in the frig and deep freeze and nothing jumped out at me, yelling cook me, cook me. Roy offered to step in and cook something and I counter offered with going out for dinner. We both agreed on that and decided to go uptown to Loncheria Doney, our favorite place to have papas locas. We haven't been there for quite awhile and it sounded good to me. If you are ever in town and want to eat there, just remember that they don't open until around 4 PM. They are also closed one day during the week; but at the moment I forget which day. We sat on the stools outside so that we could catch the breeze and also watch what was going on en la calle (on the street). The food was good as always and we enjoyed our meals.

Loncheria Doney the best place to eat papas locas.

It was just starting to get dark and the view of the church spires in the setting sun was pretty.

After eating we decided to stroll around the Fishermans Plaza (Plaza del Pescador). All the stands were open and the rides were running for the childrens amusement. The vendors selling balloons, toys, cotton candy, etc. were all out in force.
Churros, one of my favorite treats.

We stood and looked out over the harbor for a few minutes and watched a couple of young boys swimming. It is the first time that we have ever seen anyone swimming there and personally you couldn't pay me enough to get into the water there; but they were enjoying themselves.

Part of the new work on a marina for pleasure boats, it mustn't be open yet as there are no boats there. The small boat on the left hand side has been tied up there for a long time and apparently the fellow that lives aboard her is an interesting person. We have never met him.

We started to walk toward our bus stop, past the Plaza de Tres Presidentes, when a couple of clowns (actual clowns, not just goofy people) called us over. They were going to put on a show and were recruiting an audience. We walked over and sat down and after awhile they apparently decided that they had enough people to begin. They did some comedy routines, some acrobatics, some juggling, etc.. The crowd kept growing and eventually they had a pretty good audience. They were quite funny and the crowd loved them. We watched their act for quite awhile before hopping on our bus and heading home.

A nice relaxing evening.

Papas Locas And Other Things

Papas Locas And Other Things

We were quite lazy yesterday and didn't do too much, other than clean the house and get some groceries. We had a nice chat yesterday with the owner at the mini market a couple of blocks from home. Someone had told him that Roy had worked on a fishing boat in Alaska and he wanted to know if that was true as he somehow couldn't believe it. No, we told him it wasn't true. We then had a good discussion about the differences in fresh water fishing and the fishing here and the types of seafood. Apparently people are discussing us, it got us wondering just how people here perceive us, we don't act like the normal "tourists". We take the buses usually, rather than driving and shop locally rather than running to the Wal Mart in Hermosillo, just a couple of the differences. A couple of days ago when I was on my way to the store a lady stopped me to chat. She wanted to know where my husband was, I told her he was at home. She grinned and said, "ah....sleeping", I got a chuckle out of this. Now, I don't know whether this lady has seen us together and just wondered where Roy was, or if she has only seen me by myself and was curious about my marital status, or.. or.. or..?? The conversation of course was in spanish. Anyway it got me wondering.

I couldn't decide what to cook for supper last night, so thought I would try to make the "papas locas" that we like so much at a local restaurant. Typically here they use "carne asada" (grilled meat), cut up into tiny pieces; but I decided to make it with bacon instead. I cooked the bacon (cut up into small pieces), then added onion and peppers and sauted them. Then added some canned elote (corn), crema(cream), leche (milk), queso (cheese) and of course some sal con chili y limon spice (salt with chili and lemon). This was heated until the cheese melted, then put over the baked potatoes. It was very good, as in, we ate tooooo much. It was very rich and I am sure not good for the cholesterol levels. I will definately make it again.

I had a pleasant surprise this morning when I opened my emails. I frequently get emails from people asking questions about this area and I try to help them out as much as I can. Usually what happens is that there are emails that go back and forth for awhile until they find out what they want and then I don't hear from them again. Sometimes I wonder about whether they ever came here or not, if they did--did they enjoy it, etc.. This morning I got an email from a lady in Canada, we have emailed back and forth sporadically over the last 8 or 9 months. She emailed to say that they were in Hermosillo, the city just north of us about 125 kms. and were on their way eventually to San Carlos. It was nice to hear from her and to find out that they actually did come to Mexico as planned.

She also asked about the state of the shrimp here. Awhile ago people were saying that there might be some e-coli floating around with the shrimp. I haven't bought any; but am getting a craving for some, so will have to ask the landlord if they are OK now. Fidel, if you are reading this perhaps you could comment also or if you would ever like to get together for a coffee just let me know.

We may go snorkelling today, we will see. We were going to go last Wednesday; but Ciro said that his brother was coming to install the railings and we wanted to talk to him about the lid for our storage box. He didn't come and still hasn't come, so I guess he is busy at work. This is just a side project for a family member and not a rush job so I guess we are last on the list. Oh well, he will show up one of these days.