Up at 7, breakfast and the net, then did our bible reading.
Off to the aqua-aerobics, then back to the boat. This is lead by one of the cruisers and is fairly well attended with about a dozen of us.
After lunch, we went to the store and did our shopping, in the states this would be a so what sort of thing, hop in the car and go to the store, but here we don’t have a car so it means hike out to the bus stop and take a bus to the area of the store and hike in to the store (Chedraui – similar to a Walmart) then across the street to Sam’s Club. This street is two lanes each direction (a highway) with laterals on either side. The concept of the laterals is that the main road does not allow vehicles to turn either left or right, so, a block or more before you want to turn you exit the main road and pull into the lateral. This is where the left turn lane is and with the lights gets a protected left turn, across all four lanes and into the lateral on the opposite side (for a U-turn) or just a left turn. All of this makes for a wide road at relatively high speed to cross, so the crosswalk is elevated. On this trip, I waited at the bus stop with the stuff we got at the first store while Reneé went into Sam’s club, I would have had to wait outside or in the food court anyway, so no sense walking across the parking lot carrying all the groceries.
Then back to the boat, where I tried to get a nap in, while Reneé made cookies. But…. Way too many text messages and then a call from our financial advisor. We heard what he had to say, we have been planning on this anyway, the economy is down, forecasts are not great (could be, but let’s be real here) and we MIGHT be back where we started at the end of the year. Bottom line, we have decided that we are headed north into the Sea of Cortez to haul the boat at Puerto Peñasco and go back to work for a year. No neither of us wants to do this, but we are not getting any younger, and it will be better to go back this year then to wait a year and then go back when it is (potentially worse). We have been looking at this for a while now, and are pretty much ok with it, of course if our portfolio is back up at the end of the year, we will reevaluate our decision.
Oh well off to happy hour where most of the cruisers and Jodi were already in the water. An hour or so of pool therapy and back to the boat for dinner and doing nothing then bed.
No pictures today.
