High Season is Here!

After a few months of relative quiet around town, things are starting to pick up for the high season. Restaurants have made it past the September slump and have fixed themselves up and are ready to go.
Snowbird have been flocking back to Bucerias, and with them comes a flurry of activity. We have been helping with a couple different fundraising efforts and are back on track for this year.
Our neighbor Rita is the driving force behind building a children’s library for Bucerias. We have helped with the cocktail party and BBQ last year and with several book sales/ Today we had the first book sale of the season. We ask anyone who has them to donate used books and we sell them for a very reasonable price. It raises money for the library and is usually quite a social event.
The library is also planning a cocktail party for early December. We helped pour beer and wine last year and plan to do the same this year.
I recently joined the sorority Beta Sigma Phi and we are having a Christmas bazaar in a couple weeks. Those of us who were here over the summer worked on crafts many weeks. A literal sweat shop it was!
The Puerto Vallarta children’s shelter, RISE, is currently home to about 50 kids. As you can imagine, the monthly expenses for that size group is very high. RISE has a fund raiser each year called RISE for Hope, a fancy drinks and food and entertainment bash. The last two years we have helped organize and run the event. Our first planning meeting was this week.
I am taking Spanish classes at the International Friendship Club. Most of the material is review, but that is fine. My vocabulary is getting better and I find I can have longer conversations with less trouble.
Of course, much of the credit for my improvement goes to our friends Alex, Karina and Mirtha. They tolerate, even encourage, our every effort. We always have a good time when we do things with them.
Harold gets practice talking to some of the firemen we have become acquainted with as well. Just today, he rode along with the chief on a fire call. During the busy Christmas season, he plans on volunteering to help the fire fighters with highway calls for ambulance and fire.