Puerto Vallarta Monday, November 11, 2014

Rainy, rainy day! We woke up to thunder and rain. It drizzled and then rained hard and the drizzled again. We have not seen all day rain here very many times.

Sandy and Victor went on a scuba trip to Los Mariettas Islands early this morning. Hope the weather was better out there for them.

Rick and I read, played cards and watched TV on our special big screen television!

We had a homemade gourmet dinner tonight. Earlier we had picked up a kilo of shrimp at the fish market in town. Eduardo, our chef from Thursday night, left several spices and sauces in our fridge. We had a ginger fish sauce, a chili oil, sesame oil, fresh ginger, fresh cilantro, garlic, an onion and shrimp soup and various spices that we did not know what to do with.

Victor did all of the chopping.

Rick dried each cilantro leaf for Victor to chop.

We began by sauteing the onion, garlic and ginger in the sesame oil. Then we added the shrimp and the sauces. We served our creation on linguine.

Our salad was a combo of leftovers. Earlier we had cooked fresh market carrots with onion in sesame oil. Ruth had cut up a jicama earlier. And we had purchased a star fruit at the market out of curiosity.

We were very happy with ourselves!

Oh, and Sandy and Ruth loved wearing their new beach dresses for the evening!