our first days in Puerto Vallarta

We have spent our first days in Puerto Vallarta settling in to our house and neighborhood. There was unusual weather and it rained and/or was overcast the first five days we were here. We have stopped by to see Pamela at San Javier, Luis at Los Tules and James (earlyretire) at his house. We have run into Brenda on Olas Altas, Louis and Barbara at Los Muertos, and Juliana on the street near her house.
Wednesday morning, we jumped right into community service work like we are used to doing in Texas. We attended a meeting of the organizing committee of the fund-raiser for the RISE orphanage. The event is going to be on Saturday, Feb. 19 from 5 – 9 p.m. Tickets are 450 pesos each and include food and drinks. It will be held at the Molina de Agua Hotel that has a very beautiful area for it.
On Friday, we picked up James at his house. We went to La Cruz to see Bubba and the Bottom Feeders and attend their annual auction. Because of the rain, it was postponed until Friday, February 11 at 4. It will be at Britannia bar in La Cruz. We stopped by Casa Tranquila in Bucerias to visit with Patricia and Joann. After that, we headed to CyC, but weren’t able to find any other All Vallarta members. We had the filet dinner at Que Pasa and watched a little bit of “Fake It With Fox.”

2/6
I have been to Curves a couple times already. If any of you coming to visit are planning on working out, let me know and maybe we can go at the same time. Saturday, after I worked out we walked down to the beach. It wasn’t raining but was extremely windy. While standing on the beach near Ritmos (just south of the Blue Chairs) we heard kind of a ripping sound and then saw a palm tree fall over. It was planted up on the second floor and came crashing down, landing between 2 palapas. Because it was still cool and cloudy there weren’t any people on the beach right there so no one was hurt.
We walked south from Los Muertos over the rocks towards Conchas Chinas. It was a nice hike since it was still cool out. We saw several police trucks and a couple bomberos (firemen) but weren’t able to see what was going on. Looked like possibly a water rescue since one of the bomberos had a shorty wetsuit on and had a floatation device with him.
Today the sun finally came out! Harold washed the car and we swept the house. Deb had sent a car-top carrier for her friend Rafael and we delivered it to his house. Turns out we live very close to his family. We visited with him a little and ended up being invited to a fiesta next weekend.
We bought a chicken from Pollo Feliz on Honduras and walked down to the beach there. Since it is sunny and has warmed up there were people on the beach. The water looked great! We are thinking that might be a good place for us to take the dogs to the beach.
As I am finishing this up, Harold is watching the Super Bowl. Thanks to Denny, we have Star Choice TV at the house. After a little mix-up, we now have a phone, too. The number is (322) 223 3529. We don’t have Internet yet, but will soon. So I am writing this at home and will post it as soon as we go to the Internet place. I have all the photos ready for Webshots, too. If there are pictures in this blog, I have figured it out. If not, check my Webshots!