Feb 17- Feb 24th Another Week in Paradise Minus the Ocean

I forgot to tell you about our adventure Sunday afternoon.  I won’t got into a ton of details  (if you want more info read Nancy’s blog at RunningawaywithDougandNancy.blogspot.com).

Anyways, we went to a Mescal distillery.  Now Mescal is similar to tequila but grown from a slightly larger leaved plant.  This was a property up in the hills and they produce about 2000-3000 litres per year, and only sell to their friends.  Yes, basically Mexican moonshine.  We are hoping to bring a bottle home with us (as long as Al doesn’t drink it or the border crossing people don’t take it) so we will be giving sample  tastes.  Maybe at Laura and John’s wedding!

the old fashioned way the tequila is distilled

it takes 12 hours to fill one of these carafes

Caballero in training

filling our bottle

doesn't taste quite the same but?

Monday, was a slow day for Al.  There has been a touch of a bug going around the park and he was a bit under the weather.  So I, of course, took it easy too!

Tuesday morning we walked across the street to Sal’s cousin’s orchard and picked fresh oranges, limes, lemons, pomegranates,  avocadoes and apples.  There was also a fruit that was new to us a lima (in Spanish) it is a mix of lime, lemon and orange.  It smells and taste like all three.

Wednesday, we went into town with another couple at the park, Ed and Eunice, from Saskatchewan.  We had lunch at a small lunch counter that specialized in “hamburgesa’s”.  This was a thin burger patty, Mexican wieners which are turkey, lettuce, tomato, peppers and cheese slice.  Different is the only way I can describe it.

 Al went to a carpenter shop and had some molding made for the rv.  40 feet for $120 pesos or approx $11.

Thursday, we had a quote on having the rv totally sanded and re-painted back to what it originally looked like.  The quote was for 1/10^th of the cost in B.C. and the work is guaranteed for 10 years and they will come do the work at the campsite.  So on Monday that adventure begins.

Friday was a park bbq for dinner.  Everyone brought their own supper and we cooked and ate in the “recreation room”.  It was fun.

Oh, yeah, our entertainment this week has been watching dump trucks, graders and shovels working on the property next door.  They are making a new gas station or Pemex.  There has been so much dust blowing around!

Saturday was work on the motorhome mouldings for the the floor day.

 It looks great too!

Saturday evening 15 of us went into Mazamitla to El Troje to have a celebratory dinner.  It was our 35^th Anniversary on the 24^th of February and another couple here in the RV park, Kathy and Mike celebrated their 35^th on February 1^st.  Nancy added up the years that all of us sitting at the table  had been married and the total was 285 years!  Quite an accomplishment!

On Sunday, first thing was the donkey race...Everyday they move the 2 resident donkey's down the property to the gardens and today Ed decided we should see how fast the male would run on his own.  He made it in 18.55 seconds.  We were all amazed!  Next time the girl gets to try!

Fiona and Ed waiting at the finish line!

Don Quixote waiting for the starting gun!

who knew donkey's can run that fast!

so who's the ass .. the donkey or the people watching!

We packed up from our nice spot and moved way down the property in preparation for a painting job on our motorhome.  Jesus and his son, the autobody people in town, are starting work on our “Sunny” tomorrow morning.   Stay tuned as I chronicle the whole process.  It should take between 2-3 weeks to totally do.

Hasta Luego amigos!

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