My birthday day.....

the haircut is Jean's fault  - but it is great for boat life.  Robert found the restuarant had Mexican style pulpo cocktails.  We later went to our beach and sat under my birthday beach umbrella for a bit and went to a local restaurant for more shrimp.  I think we should celebrate for a month or so. 

Bucericas in the morning to buy laydown dresses to replace the ones that went back east.  Lots of bargaining and fun, as well as a Mayan replica mask and shrimp for  birthday lunch.  Straight across the bay are lovely houses that we rented years ago with Linda one year and Jean, another.  La Cruz is on the left where about 40 boats are anchored outside a pretty nice marina.  There is some probllem with the marina - blamed on the economy, but a lot of La Cruz boats have come into Nuevo,  with owners shaking their heads at the conditions.  We love Nuevo.. 

 

The lagoon/marina area is the reason whiy.  This is one of the small cottages across the way from the marina.  Nuevo is based in what used to be a lagoon;  dredged mostly and filled with channels and crocodiles.  The cottages all have docks with huge boats out front, but it is a lagoon, and it is notable for the crocs and bugs in the spring.  We take dink rides around the channels to see how the real people live. We see this every time we look across the channel.  Not too shabby a way to spend a birthday.  That and bitch at AT&T as we were not getting the birthday calls....they are supposed to be local calls to and from the US...well, email worked and I felt loved.