Travels of Rick and Ruth

Monday, October 24, 2011

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Today we watched Tebow start his first Bronco game....and they won! We watched the game at Nacho Daddy's. Afterwards we bought a rotisserie chicken dinner on the corner near Rizo's. Hit the rooftop pool. A good day!

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Taking it easy today. Reading, playing cards, a swim on the rooftop pool. Tapas for dinner at Esquina de los Caprichos. It is owned by a woman from Barcelona and her husband. It was fun for us to see pictures of Park Guell and Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, since we had just seen them in person in May. We walked the Malecon extension to get to Esquina and watched this man balancing rocks. Pretty amazing.

On the way home we caught a choir concert in the grandstand and saw a wedding at the church.

Sunday, October 21, 2011

We moved yesterday to the condo we rent each year in Vista del Sol. The Sea Monkey has replaced Epoca as the beach restaurant. It is doing a great business. The food is very good...we had a quesadilla...and the beers and drinks are $1.00. Can't beat that price! The Marigalante is always to be seen from our balcony

We met Geoff, Linda, Kathe & Gurgen at the Sea Monkey for a drink before dinner. We ate at No Way Jose. Geoff and I love the Chili en Nogada. So good! Had another rain storm and had to move inside their new patio cover.

After dinner we walked through the Zona Romantica to Nacho Daddy's for some live music and dancing.

We had a very fun last night with our newest Canadian friends, Kathe and Gurgen, who are headed home Monday.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

On Ticketmaster, Ruth had purchased tickets for the Beach Volleyball Semi Finals of the Pan American Games. The games began at 1:00 on a VERY hot day. We sat in that intense sun in the metal stands...wow...so hot. Every 20 minutes or so you would hear a siren. The firemen would then start squirting the crowd with a big fire hose. It was really funny...I would hide my purse, we would remove our glasses and then turn to the hose to get nice and wet. We left soaking wet!

We watched three matches. Mens: Brazil vs Domincan Republic and Mexico vs. Canada. Womens: Brazil vs Canada. We predicted that both Brazilian teams would win. I am sure the finals were CRAZY with Mexico playing!!

After the games, we walked to the Malecon and had an early dinner at Melissa's. Great tortilla soup!

Back at Ocho Cascadas that night we had an intense thunder storm. We watched the lightening and sheets of rain by candle light. I had been hoping for a big rain while we were there!

Monday, October 17, 2011

Geoff and Linda Dear and two of their friends, Kathe and Gurgen came up where we had dinner cooked for us in the Villa by the Ocho Cascadas floating chef, Lupe. We had a wonderful meal. Rick and I really enjoyed meeting the Larsens, who are Danes living in Vancouver.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

We made our way to the town plaza near the Malecon for the Sunday evening concert by the Puerto Vallarta Municipal Band. It is a fun event. People from the city come out and dance. We watched one caballero who was dressed to the nines with yellow cowboy boots ask several ladies to dance, with no success. Pretty soon an old guy came up and danced with him. It was pretty hilarious to watch this odd couple finish the song.

We watched the sunset from the Malecon.

For dinner we tried two restaurants to find they were closed. Found this beautiful tiled staircase leading to a beautiful, garden setting restaurant.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Here we are in Puerta Vallarta again. We look forward to our annual Fall trip. This year we got a long anticipated timeshare trade into a resort called Ocho Cascadas. The architect, Ed Giddings, designed his building that resembles a nautilus shell with 8 infinity pools that cascade down the hillside.