So it was raining on Christmas in Petaluma, Calif, where we're from and my kids are, and it was pouring in Playa Ventura on Christmas Eve, where we just moved from. We talked to my bff Chela on Christmas morning and she told us there was lightning and thunder and that the sea was very angry. I would have been sooooo pissed off if we had been there ha ha. She said exactly that- that her amiga woud have been muy muy enojada!!I mean it just rained and rained down there. Everyone kept saying how December was the nicest month- not too hot to sleep, the water so calm, and shallow way out, that you could walk so far out to the waves. Once we decided to move up here, at first we wanted to stay until Jan 1, to experience "the season", all the people, the weather, the ocean. WRONG! We have also been chatting with others down there and they're saying not too many people either, so bad weather, angry sea, not too many tourists, so so so glad to be missing it.
Of course this is not good news for the area. As I know I've written in earlier posts; Playa Ventura basically makes their nut for the year during these 2 weeks and a week at Easter (Semana Santa). The rest of the year they struggle, this is a very poor community in one of the poorest states in Mexico. At Christmas time the tourists pour in, coming in huge buses, filling up all the little hotels and bungalows and camping on the beach. They stay and eat and drink for 2 weeks, and the people of Playa Ventura work hard to earn the dinero they make during this time. The rest of the year people come once in a while, or just for the weekend....So to hear not too many people are coming this year is sad...maybe they're all arriving today- the day after Christmas and staying until after New Years. I hope so,
After lazing around the house all the yesterday, we ventured out today. I went to a morning AA meeting in English...later we went to look at the car we saw over the weekend- for me, but it was not to be. It was just to beat up for the price. In USD we offered $800, and he wouldn't go below $1200. The windshield wipers didn't work, it was kinda shaky when we drove it, the oil was like mud, and it still needed to be imported....so we passed. These guys buy cars at auctions in the US and bring them across the border to sell. He tried to tell us he paid $1000 for it, but you know he probly paid $500. The title was Indiana altho' he said he picked it up in Mexicali...anyway we passed.
Then we drove by the dock but nobody was selling their catch, and we tried to drop by and see Everardo's friend Nico, who has a sliver store on the Malecon (boardwalk)- we want to see that first house one more time on the inside. And Everardo really wants to talk to the owner hmself; he thinks maybe he can get the rent down to $200USD from $250... and talk to the guy about repairs, etc. I can't really remember what the house looked like inside cause as soon as we walked in I screamed no- inside my head of course. It was dirty, and the fridge was open and yucky inside. I remember a big living room and that's almost it. I was so disappointed that it wasn't one of the three houses on the next street that we waited in front of ha ha. The fence was so close to the front of the house and it looked shabby from outside. Now that I've been here awhile, it doesn't seem that bad ha ha. I appreciate those gated wrought iron fences, and this place had a huge side yard and back yard....it keeps getting down to, will she or won't she pay to fix the bathroom pipes, and will the fix include eliminate the smell on a hot day? (not just now)...
Anyway I guess people came down here for the Christmas holiday cause the malecon was had lots of people walking along the shops and the resturants had people in them. If Nico was there he was busy with customers, so we walked past and then walked along the extension where there are benches and a statue of a guy with a giant shrimp...sort of an open area- all cement-and some kids were riding their razor scooters and lots of people were taking pictures of each other with the ocean behind them. The water was pretty and the big pelicans were fishing, no dolphins but pretty to watch anyway. So we didn't get to talk to Nico...so we went over to the shopping center nearby that constrcution stalled on some time ago, but there's a movie theater there, and it's open. We took an escalator up and checked it out. They have movies that are sub titled and movies that are dubbed. None that we want to see particularly, so we bought some popcorn and took off. We went back to the department store, Coppel and looked at the elliptical I was considering, but it's just to cheapy and too short. I just don't stretch my legs out striaght when it turns, so I let it go. Man! No car and no elliptical...batting zero.
Well it was a nice day out and about- oh wait- I skipped the burro longo! We stopped at a hole in the wall on one of the unpaved streets to have a burro longo, we split it in fact. They are a huge burrito, they cost 40 pesos...ut a half is more than enough for one. There are so manny different kinds of tacos and burritos! But it sure is fun trying them all! Lot of people here from alot of different parts of Mexico, and everybody has their type of food...yep sounds good to me!
Of course this is not good news for the area. As I know I've written in earlier posts; Playa Ventura basically makes their nut for the year during these 2 weeks and a week at Easter (Semana Santa). The rest of the year they struggle, this is a very poor community in one of the poorest states in Mexico. At Christmas time the tourists pour in, coming in huge buses, filling up all the little hotels and bungalows and camping on the beach. They stay and eat and drink for 2 weeks, and the people of Playa Ventura work hard to earn the dinero they make during this time. The rest of the year people come once in a while, or just for the weekend....So to hear not too many people are coming this year is sad...maybe they're all arriving today- the day after Christmas and staying until after New Years. I hope so,
After lazing around the house all the yesterday, we ventured out today. I went to a morning AA meeting in English...later we went to look at the car we saw over the weekend- for me, but it was not to be. It was just to beat up for the price. In USD we offered $800, and he wouldn't go below $1200. The windshield wipers didn't work, it was kinda shaky when we drove it, the oil was like mud, and it still needed to be imported....so we passed. These guys buy cars at auctions in the US and bring them across the border to sell. He tried to tell us he paid $1000 for it, but you know he probly paid $500. The title was Indiana altho' he said he picked it up in Mexicali...anyway we passed.
Then we drove by the dock but nobody was selling their catch, and we tried to drop by and see Everardo's friend Nico, who has a sliver store on the Malecon (boardwalk)- we want to see that first house one more time on the inside. And Everardo really wants to talk to the owner hmself; he thinks maybe he can get the rent down to $200USD from $250... and talk to the guy about repairs, etc. I can't really remember what the house looked like inside cause as soon as we walked in I screamed no- inside my head of course. It was dirty, and the fridge was open and yucky inside. I remember a big living room and that's almost it. I was so disappointed that it wasn't one of the three houses on the next street that we waited in front of ha ha. The fence was so close to the front of the house and it looked shabby from outside. Now that I've been here awhile, it doesn't seem that bad ha ha. I appreciate those gated wrought iron fences, and this place had a huge side yard and back yard....it keeps getting down to, will she or won't she pay to fix the bathroom pipes, and will the fix include eliminate the smell on a hot day? (not just now)...
Anyway I guess people came down here for the Christmas holiday cause the malecon was had lots of people walking along the shops and the resturants had people in them. If Nico was there he was busy with customers, so we walked past and then walked along the extension where there are benches and a statue of a guy with a giant shrimp...sort of an open area- all cement-and some kids were riding their razor scooters and lots of people were taking pictures of each other with the ocean behind them. The water was pretty and the big pelicans were fishing, no dolphins but pretty to watch anyway. So we didn't get to talk to Nico...so we went over to the shopping center nearby that constrcution stalled on some time ago, but there's a movie theater there, and it's open. We took an escalator up and checked it out. They have movies that are sub titled and movies that are dubbed. None that we want to see particularly, so we bought some popcorn and took off. We went back to the department store, Coppel and looked at the elliptical I was considering, but it's just to cheapy and too short. I just don't stretch my legs out striaght when it turns, so I let it go. Man! No car and no elliptical...batting zero.
Well it was a nice day out and about- oh wait- I skipped the burro longo! We stopped at a hole in the wall on one of the unpaved streets to have a burro longo, we split it in fact. They are a huge burrito, they cost 40 pesos...ut a half is more than enough for one. There are so manny different kinds of tacos and burritos! But it sure is fun trying them all! Lot of people here from alot of different parts of Mexico, and everybody has their type of food...yep sounds good to me!
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