Exhausted, that’s about the only word I have available to me right now. While the first part of the week was all work for Kirk and relatively relaxing for me, the last two days have been over the top busy
Yesterday we were up early and out with the entire group onto a 60 foot powercat. We headed off to the South and say a couple of manta rays swimming in the bay. We stopped for an hour or so of snorkeling and saw puffers, eels, an octopus, and many colourful fish that I can’t identify without a book to help me. Back on the boat, we carried on until we reached Yelapa where we stopped for a few hours and had lunch and a few drinks after taking a walking tour of the town. After that we were back on the boat and stopped at a beach owned by the adventure tour company. There were tables set up along the beach, in terraces along the cliffs, and we ate dinner with the sea lapping at our feet. It was gorgeous, and the food was fabulous. After the sun set they ushered us up into the forest and into an outdoor theatre. If I thought I’d been hot here before this, I was wrong. it was almost unbearable, but then the entertainment started. It was a Mexican version of Cirque du Soleil called Rhythms of the Night and it was wonderful. After the show we were back on the boat and headed back to Puerto Vallarta. Along the way the staff entertained us with a hysterical dance show they had put together. It was wonderful and we were back at the dock at about midnight. We were out for about 12 hours.
Today we were up early again and eight of us met to go on a day long tour into the south Sierra Madre’s. We were out for about 9 hours with a fabulous tour guide – Mary Lou – who took us to a botanical garden that was full of fabulous orchids, the the town of El Tuito, built in the 16th century, to a cheese maker where we sampled fresh cheeses, to see some 1200 year old petroglyphs, to a racilla distillery where we learned how the agave plant is grown and harvested, and cooked to make racilla, to a tequila distillery where we learned about the blue agave plant which is used for the making of tequila and sampled the different wares of both distilleries. Our guide was so pumped up about everything and had so much information, she was a delight.
We tried to watch the game in it’s entirety tonight. We went down the road to a sports bar, but the two of us were the only ones of today’s group that even made it there, and we only survived to the end of the second period before stumbling back to the hotel where the best we could do was listen to the end of the game on 1040AM online. But who cares, we won! And we saw the winning goal on CNN a few minutes later when they showed the highlights.
So I’ll sort through the hundreds of photos from the past two days later, for now all I have to say is GO CANUCKS! and Goodnight.