Several things have happened since Andre arrived (6 days ago already! )and my adventure with benefits has begun. Mostly good, one not so good.
For the first 3 days after Andre arrived, we stayed at an all inclusive hotel I had chosen. Our room was nice, clean, and bright with a nice breeze. We had access to free pina coladas, several other beverages, a buffet (I love buffets!!), a nice pool, and a nice part of the beach. All very good. Except that someone else had a key to our room, and used it to take my cell phone, and snoop around several times, likely for other loot. It was my old cell phone, which made it less bad than it could have been, but after that we didn't feel safe leaving anything of value there and had to bring our stuff with us any time we left the room. We told the hotel and filed a report but don't expect to see the phone again.
Now, we're staying in a guest house in the yard of a lady I met while volunteering. This is good cause the guest house is cute, clean and has a nice patio. Also, it only costs about $27 per night. We feel that our stuff is safe there and so far so good.
On Saturday, while volunteering for the SPCA, I fed a 2 week old kitten that had been found seperate from its mom. So coool!!! I even made it pee! (It appears that kittens this young don't know they have to pee, so you have to tickle their parts (penis in this case) to make them pee. The kitten is now with an adoptive family and is doing well. That's very good cause its chances of survival were/are 50/50 until it reached 4 weeks of age. Every day that goes by increases its chances a fair bit!
Yesterday, we took a bus to a town called Mezcales to visit a very small tequila distillery. It was very interesting and tasty! It's too long to explain how its done, I'll tell you in person if you want. We bought tequila and tequila based chocolate liqueur and almond liqueur (YUM!) Then we went to another town called Bucerias and drank and ate on the beach. It was very lovely! The sand was softer than in PV and the waves more friendly. Andre likes my bikinis so I wore one that day.
Today, we went on a zip line tour that was a lot of fun, partly cause we got to use several modes of transportation to get to the zip lines themselves. And because this is one of the freebees the timeshare people gave to me (ha!). We started off crossing the bay in a boat, then we took a jeep type vehicle up a mountain, then we switched to mules! The trip also included 2 rappels, which I like very much too!
Pictures: Mad making the kitten pee; the patio at our guest house; my bikini at Bucerias; and the blue agaves they grow to make tequila (the pineaple like things in the foreground are the ball that forms at the base of the plant after about 7 years of growth. They cook these balls, then mash and ferment the balls to get the sugar and make it turn to alcohol)
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