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Day 2
After a delicious breakfast of toast with peanut butter, strawberry yogurt, bananas and apple juice we got ready and headed for the beach. We don’t know where Sergio’s is – we ended up in the same place as we remember Sergios but it was called Cheeky Charlies or something similar. We got 2 beach chairs and an umbrella as well as 2 mojitos. Just as we finished setting up a huge storm blew in. Umbrellas were turning inside out, pulling out of the sand and flailing across the beach. We paid our 120 peso bill (yes – 120 pesos for 2 mojitos) and left the North Beach. David and Melissa came to the conclusion that while sitting on a beach chair is nice – the cost of drinks is too much. If we drink there during the day we have no money for food. We took a cab from our place to the 7 11. Melissa thought the walk to North Beach was shorter than it was. We ate at the old flea market for lunch (at 4pm). It was great food. We shared chicken empanadas and nachos. Yes – Melissa ate lime, cilantro and tomatoes today – a first for sure! We decided that due to the weather we should pick up some groceries and then head back to the apartment before we headed back in for dinner and to celebrate Javier’s birthday. We got lost walking back from the grocery store and when we got a cab we were only a few streets from ‘home.’ Today at the grocery store we bought some more apple juice, bananas, eggs (that are not refrigerated), a tomato, some shredded cheese, napkins and some granola. We had tacos for dinner and then headed across the street to Bamboo to see Javier and his band play. We enjoyed beverages and Mexican music. They sure make strong margaritas there! When Javier was done playing at Bamboo we moved across the street to Faines where he plays for another couple of hours with a different group. Javier was defiantly having a good birthday celebration. Anyone who bought him tequila shots – he generously handed those over to David. After Javi was done playing for the night he wanted tacos – so Javier, Marla, David and Melissa went back to the taco place we ate for dinner and had more tacos ☺ We shared a cab with Javier and Marla back to our apartment and they carried on to their condo. Javier was hilarious. Imitating Ray speaking gibberish. WAY TOO MANY LAUGHS! Imagine a Spanish-speaking drunk Mexican speaking gibberish – yes – laugh out loud! As soon as we got back to the apartment we went to bed. Not sure what time this was but it was defiantly late. Our landlords were getting up for the day. We really need to stop the sleeping in thing as we got up this morning at 8:45am but crawled back into bed and slept until noon. The weather today is sunny with clouds but pretty windy. Not sure what our plans are – do we head to the beach for some rays, do we chill by the pool up on our roof, or do we go to the vet and drop off our supplies? Decisions decisions …

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