A local river trip

Part of Pedro's family:  Adolpho -we nicknamed El Toro, Rosacrystal,  Natalie, Sebastian, & Daniel.  Hosea was trying to round up things for the trip to the river.  The kids just crawled in the car with Koa and decided, "let's go."

We had complained to Pedro about the heat and he said to come out to his house and he would take us to the river.  It was out in the country, fairly good unpaved road, and we drove through part of the river in the van to get to where there were swimming holes.  Koa instantly became an idiot, trying to round all the people up in the river, whimpering that they wouldn't cooperate.  While he loved the swimming, he was very frustrated that all his pack were in different directions.  The other Mexicans in the river just ignored his trying to herd them.



Looking upstream:  there was a huge current where  we entered the river, enough so it knocked me down and Pedro had to help me get to safer rocks and the deep spot.  The kids managed just fine, as did Koa - while I crawled the rest of the time.



La Familia - Hosea was divng off the rocks...seems that Vallarta adventures goes out there as there is a zip line overhead.

 The family has very little - yet they are quite happy.  It was wonderful seeing such open, happy kids - though dad works 12 hour days for about $18/day.  He is a great help on the dock and we will miss him when we leave, as well as the joy the kids express.