Well It is Christmas Eve, and we don’t have a lot planned. Bethany is coming over to paddle board with Reneé. So, we had breakfast, read the Bible for the day and I started the watermaker while Reneé went to the store. Later, the guys working on the dinghy got here, and Karen needed help moving her boat, and Bethany got here. Oh and Patrick brought back the scraps of wood from the project he borrowed from us the other day. I spoke with Mike about our Boom Vang, he is off looking for parts. We will see when we see. So, by 3:30, Bethany has gone, the guys are still working on the dinghy and our water tank is full. Reneé headed over to the pool and I am waiting to see what is next.
We got a call from Nate to let us know that his new job at Walmart starts January 4th!!!! This is awesome news! Next up he will be looking for another place to live that has a lower cost than $1,100 a month. It probably won’t be as nice as where he is but there are other things to consider as well.
So, we had a couple of guys working on our dinghy wheels. It has been one of those projects that takes forever, and just doesn’t go right. I think we are going on a year of screwing around with these things. One of the downsides to cruising in Mexico. The company that makes the wheels has a great reputation, and they make two sizes and they have a great warranty, but….. well we are in Mexico and the company is in California. So, first I had to find the company then after finding out they are trying to retire, I had to find someone who carried the wheels. They told me that they could sell me a set for cost, I asked about the warranty, and finally they came through. I told them the ones we had were too small for our dinghy, so they came through with a complete set of the larger wheels. Actually the wheels are the same size, it is the bars and tracks that are bigger. So, we did not see that they were larger (we were in the states and the dinghy and parts were in Mexico). So we only brought the bars back with us. Which of course did not fit, so I had Brendan mail the rest of the hardware from Kansas via UPS. Apparently UPS doesn’t want to do business in Puerto Vallarta and it took about a month to get the parts here, including having the marina driver drive clear across Puerto Vallarta (25 miles, over an hour each way) after the UPS people said that they were unsuccessful in finding anyone at the office (open 7 days a week, from 9 am) at 10 am on Saturday. Oh and the gate is always manned and they take deliveries there. The next day they said, it is out for delivery and finally the next day we called and just told them to hold it. Anyway the two guys working on the project because not only are the wheels two different sizes, they use a different arrangement for attaching the racks. So, today 4 attempts to get the holes correct and … well maybe Monday or Tuesday. That makes it nap time.
At 6 pm we headed over to the next dock for the Christmas party and white elephant gift exchange. A couple hours of mingling and eating and drinking and then back to our boat for showers and bed.
