Catching up since our Motherboard died! Part 1

Our troubles with the computer started around the middle of November.  Our computer just wouldn’t wake up! We tried everything and then it turned on, silly us we should have run to get the external harddrive out immediately but no we didn’t even think about that.  We used the computer for the day, if fact, I worked on a post with lots of pictures but couldn’t post because my internet time allotment had been used up. We closed the laptop and the next morning it would not start no matter how nicely we talked to it (or how much we swore at it).  We took it into La Penita to a young fellow who used to work for Toshiba in the states, three days later we got the news that its motherboard had died, and that to replace it in Mexico would be more expensive than buying a new laptop.  Our daughter, Alyssa was due to arrive in Nueva Vallerta at the RIU Palace for a week, so we asked her to bring us a “spare” laptop that was kicking around.  It was an IBM Thinkpad, a 386 dinosaur that weighed about 18 lbs and wouldn’t even connect to the internet here, so thanks but no thanks…We were investigating having one shipped to us from Canada, when Carole, the manager of this beautiful park said that she had a new computer that she had bought in May on her way home through the states and had not liked the Windows 8, so if we didn’t mind that she would sell it to us.  So now we have a Toshiba laptop that won’t turn on, a IBM think pad that we should probably use as an anchor, and a HP Pavilion G7 with Windows 8 that we are slowly getting familiar with.

So when I last posted it was the day before my birthday, I can’t remember every detail but I do know that we went into Nueva Vallerta to meet up with Al’s brother, Byron, sister-in-law, Patti, nephew, James his wife Shawna, their son Thomas and Terry and Jeannette their friends from Bissett, Manitoba. They were staying at the RIU Palace for 10 days, it was totally booked, so we stayed at the RIU Vallerta which was just down the beach.  We spent some good time with them and thoroughly enjoyed our visit!  (They are now back in Manitoba in the snow and cold)  Sorry I couldn’t resist that…

The view from our room at the RIU Vallerta

The beach in front of the RIU Palace

The malecon in Puerta Vallerta

Dining at the Riverside Cafe in Puerta Vallerta

Thomas was the photographer for this night, good work buddy!

The first week of December, Alyssa and her friend Mary arrived to also stay at the RIU Palace for a week.  We met them in Bucerias for the day and wandered around the market there and had lunch on the beach…

Please read part 2 to see our Christmas and New Years photos!