Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Ruth's friend Vicki's daughter will be getting married in Puerto Vallarta next year at Villa Verano, which overlooks the southern end of Los Muertos Beach. We took a cab to check it out for Vicki. Three cab drivers did not know where Villa Verano was located, but our cabbie kept asking along the way and we found it. Wow! What a compound. The property can sleep 46 people. There are three chefs, bartenders and maids that take in your laundry daily to wash and iron for you. This is a really special place. We loved our tour given by Jose. At the end, we exited through a funky little door right onto Los Muertos Beach!

View from Los Muertos Beach

Pool

Private entry from Los Muertos Beach

Private entry

Kayaks for use.

Red bananas

Heliconia

Private "beach"

View to Los Muertos Beach

Bar with a view

Exit to beach

Some rooms are reached by spiral staircases.

A bedroom.

View from a bedrooms

A bedroom.

Beautiful tree from a bedroom patio.

Jose and Rick in the library.

A bedroom.

View from a bedroom patio.

A bedroom patio.

A bedroom.

View from a patio.

Dining room.

Filipe, one of the three chefs.

Tropical flowers.

The library.

Patio dining.

A view.

Lush vegetation.

Monday, October 20, 2014

We walked Los Muertos Beach to its southern end. Lots of activity with shovels and picks trying to divert the water that streams down from the city streets. There are huge chasms dug into the sand as the water makes its way to the sea. The workers are trying to restore their restaurant beach areas. Hard to compete with Mother Nature!

Our friends from Lindo Mar, Steve and Janna, came by for a drink before going to dinner at a new restaurant to us, called Gaby's. Steve and I actually met on TUG2.net, a website for timeshare owners. We met in person a few years ago at Lindo Mar Resort. Steve and Janna are staying there now. We will be there in two weeks.

Gaby's had some wonderful food. Ruth had the Molcajete, which is a steaming lava bowl of shrimp, chicken, beef and vegies in a delicious broth. Excellent! Rick had his usual coconut shrimp. He is so glad that his allergy to shrimp has disappeared. One interesting thing at Gaby's was the slideshow about Puerto Vallarta that as projected on the building next door. Quite original!

We finished the evening with flaming coffee at La Palapa. Great night with our friends!

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Today we took it easy at the Vista del Sol pool. From the rooftop, you can see past the city of Puerto Vallarta deep in to the mountainous jungle. After our relaxing day, we took up the arduous task of watching Peyton Manning break Brett Favre's career touchdown record ~ 509. Peyton even cracked a smile. Go Broncos!

Saturday, October 18, 2014

We made it to Puerto Vallarta by 11:30 am and headed right to Sea Monkey (the restaurant in our condo Vista del Sol) where we put our toes in the sand, had a cerveza and split an order of fish tacos. Yum! Today is super hot and super humid. We are dripping. Coloradans (is that a word?) are not accustomed to anything humid!

The next order of business is to get some grocery shopping done, so we headed back north to Walmart and stocked up for our two weeks at Vista del Sol.

With that business done, we unpacked and played some cards on the balcony while taking in the beautiful Banderas Bay. From our patio we can see north to Punta Mita and south to mountains that mark the end of the bay. Quite a view. There is always something to look at. Right now they are building two new palapas at Sea Monkey.

Hurricane Odile brought large waves into the bay and many structures were damaged. The restaurant just to the south of Sea Monkey is being totally rebuilt, with large wooden beams. Lots of activity (and noise), but we wont complain, as we love it here so!