Up slow, breakfast, the net and bible reading. Reneé is making bread and I will work on the dinghy this morning. We got the stuff for the new dinghy wheels, and the dinghy needs air. So, that will take up the morning. But first we will go visit Patrick and Lisa that we met in Barra.
We visited Patrick and Lisa, he wants to leave on 12/23, she wants to spend Christmas here with her relatives, it is an interesting dynamic, he is the captain and she is crew. As in the connected on find crew/find captain.
Then as we were walking back to our boat, there was a refrigeration guy coming down to work on our neighbors boat. We asked him to take a look at our freezer. So, when he got done next door, he worked on ours. We will see.
We started into the project of dinghy wheels, and found out the new ones use different holes. This quickly escalated beyond my ability, so about that time Eddie Vargas (the guy working on our mast boot, waiting on parts) came by and checked in about the parts issue. I told him we would be here until mid January and that we had not given up yet. While he was there I asked about the dinghy wheels, and he said he had “a guy” who could handle this and would have them come by this week. And, with that it is time to go to Puerto Vallarta for the plastic work, and dinner down town.
We took two busses and a cab and got to the place for the plastic work. The guy said he could have it done Thursday, and will meet Reneé at Sam’s club on Thursday at 9 am. This will save a huge trip. After dropping off the piece, we walked down to the Malecon (walkway at the beach) and had dinner and walked some more, then had dessert and walked some more. Finally sitting for a bit to watch 4 guys dressed in indigenous people clothing climb a tall tower, then wind 4 ropes around the top of the tower, then tie the ropes around themselves and lowered themselves down spinning around the pole, while one played the flute and beat a drum. Pretty impressive. Not something I would ever do.
At the end of the evening, we looked at getting an Uber back to the marina, 750 pesos (at 20 pesos to the dollar, $37.50) we elected to take the busses again. It took three bus rides at about 90 pesos ($4.50) for the two of us. Then showers and bed.
