Another week, another bunch of sun, fun and food. We are now comfortable with buying food off the local trucks that drive around Sayulita selling seafood, vegetables, or cooking gas. There is room to negotiate but it feels wrong given how inexpensive and good the food is. Case in point - I purchased 1kg of fresh jumbo shrimp for 150pesos - just over 12$ CAN. And they were HUGE!
I also have a bit of a crush on the local taco lady - 10p for a taco - although it has just risen to 12p for the tourist season. 20% price increases! I am going to Occupy Sayulita! Or just pay up the extra 20c.
I took up the property manager of Casa Namaste on his offer of surf lessons. I got schooled by
massive 1ft waves for about 90mins at which point I had to go home, eat, put kids to bed and then collapse in a useless heap from exhaustion. Combined with getting absolutely schooled on some massive waves (5-6ft) on Carachita's beach a day earlier made me fully aware of my newbie status in the ocean.
Both the dudes have zero fear, awareness or sense near the ocean. N barrels straight toward the water while D prefers to lie down in the surf wash and play with the sand completely oblivious to the fact it could drown him. We are going to build on this experience with swimming lessons when we get home. It's 100% awesome that they love the water; now we just have to build in clear thinking and water skills.
We took a slow bus into PV to go walk on the Malecon. It was quite cool for a change and the bus ride was the roller coaster fun that I expeceted it to be. I don't know how the drivers coax those busses to go that fast around corners that tight but somehow they do. We enjoyed the trip but decided to take a taxi on the way back, more on this later. Walking around PV was very eye-opening. I much prefer the laid back attitude and pace of Sayulita. The hard sell is everywhere but they do know how to take"no gracias" if said firmly. We took pictures of many of the statues on the Malecon (the point of our trip to PV) and then bargained a taxi home with the hope of getting some A/C and a speedy return to Sayulita. Well, we must have bargained too hard because we definitely got a speedy return! Our ex-race car taxi driver was usually about 5cm from the car ahead of him and pulled more illegal driving maneuvers than you usually experience in a lifetime, never mind 45mins. We almost were at the point of offering more money to make him slow down so we could get home alive.
Finally, life is all good here. We have a rhythm that is going well and the weather just can't be beat now that it is finally a few degrees cooler. Until next time.
Hasta luego!
