Cruising ~ The Cat’s Meow Style ~
July through December -
2010
More good times, pt. 1
Hello to all, and many
thanks to each of you for coming back to see us at Cruisin’, The Cat’s
Meow style!! We finally and I do mean finally have figured out the glitch that
kept us from uploading our stories for over a year. Wow. More than a year. And,
of course, it was a simple, little, stupid glitch. O well. Here we are now,
ready to tell our stories and share our memories and photos with you.
Instead of going back over
most of the time we have “missed” since our last story, we will try to just
“hit the highlights”, OK?!
The rest of 2010
July 4th is
celebrated by the US ex-pats, and we decided to join other cruiser-types at an
annual party given by Geary, who has a beach-house (at the water’s edge…) in
what is called Bahia de Concepcion (Conception Bay), north of Pto. Escondido.
We drove the four hours up Mex 1 in our Bounder RV and spent the next few days
enjoying the bay, the boaters, the food, and the fun!!
Hotdog Geary, host of the 4th of July
bash Keeping
cool on the 4th, cruisin’ style
September 16th
is Mexican Independence Day, and Mexicans are very proud people who love to have
fun! So, the Singlar marina staff joined the Hidden Port Yacht Club to
celebrate this occasion together. Arrachera, marinated strip steak that is
BBQ’d and eaten in tacos, and all of the other side dishes were prepared and
enjoyed by all. Happy music was played, and some of our friends demonstrated
their very happy dance steps, which everyone enjoyed as well.
Food is prepared for typical
Mexican feasting Constanza
shows us how it is done, Mexicana style
Rachel & Raphael know the moves
After having more fun for
Hallowe’en,
The Red Queen (OFF with their
heads!!) and the Mad Hatter attended the Hallowe’en party
we had a chance to attend
the annual paella contest. The venue for this event is at the grounds of the
nearby Loreto Bay restaurant. What a beautiful setting! Teams from all over the
area compete, and the lucky attendees get to sample as many of the paellas as
we want. Yummmm!!
Loreto Bay grounds Hector’s paella
Robin
& Martin get to sample the goods!!
Robin has some very special
friends in the Bay Area of California, and she joined two of them whom she has
known since junior high…..gads…..for a wine tasting trip in the Napa Valley
during the month of November. The first stop on the trip was in San Jose to
visit Ken & Rhonda Hardy, just in time for fresh Dungeness crab for dinner!
And….Robin’s cousin Sharla (who lives in Ohio) was actually visiting San Jose
at the same time and had her first Dungeness crab dinner – yumm yumm!!!
Crabby Ken Rhonda & Sharla enjoying Dungeness
crab dinner
Kathy, Andrea, and Robin
filled their time with a trip to the spa and some very nice sampling of very
nice wines.
Robin’s buddies, Kathy and Andrea Gorgeous vineyards, beautiful weather in the
wine country
Each year each of us
strives to make our personal circumnavigation around the sun, and Martin made
it around one more time on November 25th. Friends gathered on the Iron
Maiden, hosted by Bill and Laura, to celebrate.
Friends celebrate ANOTHER
birthday for Martin aboard the Iron Maiden
And, of course, Christmas
comes around each year, as well, and it is yet another reason to celebrate.
(My, we DO celebrate a lot of things, don’t we….??!) So, we did.
Pre-Christmas Holiday festivities The Grinch showed-up
Santa showed-up ….but….who is THAT??
Yes, we had a very good
year in 2010. We hope that you did too.
Please take a peek at our
next page, to continue with the highlights, this time for the year 2011….more
of Cruisin’ ~ The Cat’s Meow
Style…….
But…..just to remind you
that not every day is fun and frolicking for us on TCM, here is another side of
our story:
A
“norther” in the port