I got up around 4:00 and blogged for a bit and said good
morning to Elaine who had gotten up to drive Rebecca to the airport to return to NYC
and her job at Goldman Sachs.
I went back to bed and we got up at 6:30 to shower, eat and leave for the airport. We ate most of the rest of the gravad lax on Einstein
bagels Elaine brought home from her trip to the airport with Rebecca. Then at 8:15 Billy drove us to DFW for our 10:15 flight
to Puerto Vallarta.
When we arrived in Sayulita, we made it with some difficulty past the time share
salesmen to the rental car area and checked in with Europcar. After we picked up our rental car we drove the
one block to Marina Plaza and decided we wanted to at lunch first.
We parked at the Lloyd’s end of the Plaza where the Pasta
Restaurant is located and went into Lloyd’s and exchanged $300 (the exchange
rate was 13.05 pesos to the dollar so we got 3,915 pesos). There is a small pasta restaurant that we
like just in front of Lloyd’s, so we ordered lunches of ravioli, salad, a drink
and a dessert for 79 pesos each. Suzette
ordered ricotta and spinach ravioli with pesto and I ordered ground beef filled
ravioli with Bolognese sauce. We both
liked our dishes and love the fresh pasta that this small restaurant and pasta
shop serves and sells.
I did not know what I was doing but pointed to a stack of bottles
at the bottom of the cooler and when we opened the bottle of water found that
it was a lovely carbonated mineral water.
We were satisfied with our lunch, so we took the desserts with us.
We then walked to the other end of the Plaza to the Pelican Supermarket and bought 780
pesos of groceries, including chorizo, smoked tuna, avocados, a cucumber, peach
marmalade, limes, onions, grated manchego cheese, milk, natural yogurt, Castillo
Anejo Rum, soda water, a 1 pack of Noche Buena, a loaf of onion bread, black
beans, etc. The most fun we had was
tasting the different fresh mole concentrates that the store offered. We had no trouble deciding on the Oaxaca
black mole and bought about ½ lb. for 17 pesos.
We usually buy honey, but did not like the commercial stuff
they offered in the store. But when we walked outside we saw an artisan foods
stand with goods from Michoacán that had whipped fresh pure honey, so we bought
a small container for 45 pesos.
We then walked around the corner to our favorite chicken rotisserie
shop and bought a whole chicken dinner with four roasted jalapenos, an order of
rice, an order of roasted potatoes and seven tortillas for 120 pesos.
At around 3:30 we drove out of the Plaza Marina and north out of PV and, without much congestion
on the national highway, and made it to Sayulita in about 25 minutes, even
though our small Dodge car did not have much power.
It took us a while to find the Villas Miramar at 11 Palmar Street,
but we finally did and were settled into our apartment by June and David and Terry. After changing clothes and unpacking our
grips and food, we walked on the beach at sunset and felt that we had made a
good choice of places to rent.
The villas are arranged in a two sided walled compound running
from the ocean to Palmar street, just north of the rocky outcropping in the middle
of the small bay about a mile from the main part of town, which is now the new
hot area in Sayulita, perhaps because it more quiet but still has a good view
of the southern half of the bay. Unfortunately,
because the bay at Sayulita is bounded on the South by a high headlands, you do
not get a sunset over the water, just the headland, so our location is better
because it gives you a wider view of the sunset over the ocean, which was
deeply pink this evening.
After our walk we went back to the apartment and Suzette
heated up the two thigh quarters of the chicken, two jalapenos, slices of roasted
potatoes and the seven tortillas, while I sliced threads of fresh onion,
avocado and slices of cucumber. We filled
plates with chicken and the other ingredients and took them with a Noche Buena beer
to the palapa at the beach and filled the warmed tortillas with the ingredients
and enjoyed a great hot chicken taco dinner with a wonderful view of the town
of Sayulita in the waning sunset. I
noticed that my nose was beginning to open up from the change from city smog to
salt ocean breezes.
We went back to the room and I went back to bed, sleeping soundly from 8:30 to 4:00.
Bon Appetit
Bon Appétit
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