The Culture Vulture Returns to San Blas

  Yah I know. I'm a day late with the blog but let me explain. Yesterday we spent over an hour driving around Puerto Vallarta looking for equipales. Now, someone reading this may not know what that is so let me explain. They are the traditional pig skin furniture usually with a round table and four chairs. Since I've done a Mexican kitchen at home, I decided I needed one of these sets on Deer Lake Road. First, we couldn't find any for sale which also meant we couldn't find a place willing to ship them to Canada. Our taxi driver who didn't speak a word of English was probably as disappointed as we were. All is not lost as Ray found a place in Arizona who sells them and says they ship internationally so I'm working on that.  The posts above are part of the SB revitalization project. A few resemble the one on the left and in some places like outside of the popular Wala Wala Restaurant, they are totally missing now.  This massive structure built down by the library ...

Sitting on the square eating ice cream while Ray ate his lunch, hey if I want ice cream for lunch I can do that!!!, I saw this colourful picture and thought to myself, "That is so Mexico!" Gotta love it!!! Saturday was the big move to Hacienda Flamingo. This is the central area of the hotel. All of the rooms around the four sides. I have gobs of great pics but the internet is so slow here that they will have to wait for another time.  This is the outside porch onto a hallway that goes no where. Don't ask. This is Mexico. We have a bedroom, kitchen, living room and two bathrooms. We could even swing a cat if we had one!!! We have breakfast included every morning and I sure hope it changes after the last two morning being pretty similar...... It is a great place to stay right across the road from the Hichol market. Many good restaurants are right up the road which is well paved and brightly lit. OMG!!! We were invited to a wedding last Saturday of Jose, a former English stu...