We slept until 8:00, when I drove down the hill to the small grocery store on Ninos Heroes and bought a lb. of sugar, a liter of milk, a stick of butter, 10 eggs, and a large packet of chocolate filled wafer cookies for 106 pesos (about $6.00).
Suzette made us coffee with steamed milk when returned and we began preparing breakfast. I chopped 2 oz. of onion and two cloves of garlic and Suzette began sautéing that. I then peeled 8 shrimp and sectioned each into four or five bite sized pieces that Suzette added to the skillet with three eggs whipped and finally two slices of Swiss cheese.
While Suzette was preparing the omelet I made a salsa by mincing ½ Roma tomato, 2 oz. of onion, 1 small jack fruit, and added the salsa packed for us to take home at Si Senor yesterday with all its lovely fresh cilantro.
Suzette heated water in a pot on the stove and I brewed a cup of lime blossom tea with lime juice and sugar, which was very lovely. We ate on the table on the veranda.
At 10:30 we drove to the bank to exchange money and then to the beach. We drove on the main east west street on the south side of town and found a public parking lot at the beach entry on the west end where we parked and carried the two chairs and umbrella and our ice chest to the beach. At the beach we turned north and found a place on the beach in front of the place we used to stay. We set up the chairs and umbrella and sat and read and drank Buena Noche beers, walked on the beach, and even got into the water up to my ankles and Suzette a bit deeper until 2:30. This is the first time we have ever been totally self contained with our own seats and umbrella and it was wonderful to not need to pay 250 pesos or, more importantly, hassle with restaurant waiters. Of course, there were the usual vendors and Suzette bought a blanket to use as a tablecloth on Willy’s table for 400 pesos (about $23).
When we returned to the condo we ate some banana nut bread and cleaned the sand off our feet and went swimming for about ½ hour. Today I actually swam, thanks in part I am sure to Linda’s Tensor electric stimulation machine treatments I did yesterday. The pool water was cool and very refreshing.
Then we rested until 5:30 when we showered and dressed. Suzette made banana, mango and rum daiquiris and we sipped them on the veranda.
As 6:00 we drove to the square and found a parking space within a block of the square. Suzette then shopped the two blocks south of the square while I read the New Yorker and then I joined her for the four or five bocks west and east of the square. Then around 7:15 we retraced the two blocks north of the square to Emiliano’s restaurant, a restaurant roofed by a large palm frond palapa. We sat in the back to avoid the crowd, but as soon as we sat down a parade celebrating the festival of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s Saint, passed the restaurant on its way to the square. We ran to the street in front of restaurant and Suzette took pictures.
T.R. and Linda arrived a few minutes later. I had the usual trouble ordering and finally decided to order a rib eye steak. Linda ordered fish tacos, and T.R. ordered a whole red fish, the dish we ordered at Si Senor yesterday. Suzette was the most creative in ordering fried calamari with two dipping sauces as an appetizer and then tuna tostados, which were topped with seaweed salad and pickled ginger.
The side dishes served with the red snapper
My rib steak
T.R. talked about his travels and near death experiences surfing around the world and in Hawaii where he grew up. Linda told us about he brother’s difficulty finding reasonably priced accommodations and food in NYC.
Dinner was about 1/3 less than lunch yesterday for more pedestrian fare and decidedly less stellar service, but a bit more food and beverages.
My steak was a little tough and surely not aged but a legitimate rib eye with chili mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables including perhaps the world record carrot. I asked for and was given a side of refried beans that I liked better than the potatoes.
After dinner we walked to the plaza and watched the dances by Local folks in colorful costumes on the stage. It was a bit like amateur night after the regional dancers we had seen two nights ago, but the crowd seemed transfixed. Linda told us the special Mariachi band was scheduled for 11:00, but at 9:30 we said goodnight and left. I had seen enough gaily colored women swinging their skirts in the air and men dressed in jeans and boots tapping across the stage.
When we arrived home I poured us two glasses of rum and we watched two more episodes of Mrs. Maisel as we munch several chocolate wafer cookies.
At midnight we went to bed.
This was a more standard day for us in Sayulita.
Bon Appetit
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