I spent most of yesterday on the phone and the computer tracking down my credit card. You know, the one that was compromised with a trip to Paris. That has not yet been resolved. DHL does not deliver to the Isla which I suspected and is why I spent a full day holding on the phone for them. My credit card was rerouted to a fairly close DHL office just across the shipping channel from us. And the card finally came into my possession today.
During the afternoon DHL is open until 2 -5 pm.. We left at 4:30 and hopped onto the launcha from the main Embarcadero just as it was pulling away for the dock. Then a pulmonia showed up just as we needed one. No sense taking Didi as we were only a seven minute ride away. If there is a next time we will walk. Very long story short, the pulmonia driver had no idea where Gabriel Layva was. Colin had a photo of Google maps on his phone. I was pulling up the address up on Google Maps. We were a three minute walk away and we had five minutes before DHL closed. Our driver was truly lost and did not listen to our directions ( in Spanish ) but stopped 3 times to ask other drivers where to go 🙄 First time in 14 years that this has happened to us. We did get there and were the last customer of the day. Going to use Didi next time ( if we don’t walk ) as they navigate by GPS 🙂
DHL Express picked up the envelope in Markham, Ontario, Canada late afternoon Friday, December 15th. Today, just 7 days later I picked up the envelope with my credit card at 4:58PM in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico : Express WordWide service and I didn’t not have to pay anything. Rather amazing. So back to the embarcadero with the same pulmonia.
A few days ago we went to a huge party ‘in the ‘hood’. Remember that large yellow and white home just two doors away from us. I have photos and view shots to post but it is getting rather close to Christmas so check back next week. It really was fun. Life is good. We went to the Plazuela Macaho last night to see all the lights and decorations. It’d was wonderful. Dinner at Gaia with G & J could not have been more perfect. We even got to listen to Los Cryps for about 15 minutes who were playing at El Cielo. Christmas gifts have been purchased, none for us as we stopped exchanging gifts a few years ago. We have all we need in life. So a few gifts to wrap and a few dozen cards to write tomorrow.
I borrowed this off of G’s FB page. We are all too busy at Gaia eating our gourmet meals that we neglected to take photos, so glad we were captured in this photo. Proof that we were there.
As you know we always create a Christmas photo that I send out on Christmas Day. Somehow this years family photo came together just an hour or so ago. We weren’t certain that it would actually happen, but it did.
Our December 2023 calendar photo. Not sure that we will ever top this.The girls were so very sweet and patient last year. They were about 22 months old when this was taken. So happy to have these two in our lives.
Yesterday was a very special day fo us all in the hood! First we had the spectacular sunrise, then midday a large pod of dolphins were frolicking directly in front of us feeding on a school of fish. There were so many all at once in various directions that it was almost impossible to capture them in photo.
I only was able to capture a small fin but Colin got three in single photo, including the end of a breach. So many were breaching and were moving in all directions that it was best to just watch them and enjoy the moment. Just another significant moment in yesterdays very special day.
Once again this photo has NOT been enhanced in any way. Mother Nature painted the sky this way. I have never seen such a red colour in all my years here. Yesterday my post included two spectacular sunrise photos taken by Colin. Just as we were about to leave for the Plazuela Machado the sky became full of so many colours. He went across the road and climbed up those large rocks to get this.
Thank you Sue for including our home in your great sunset shots last night. Also the large white & yellow home just behind us is where we had the most wonderful ‘in the hood’ party that I mentioned earlier. Sue, Colin thinks this is a fabulous shot.
Everything is definitely coming together.
Spectacular sunrise and sunset photos; both are magnificent! Thank you for sharing these with all of us. So very happy for you that the credit card issue has been resolved? Isn’t it amazing how dependent we have become on credit cards even for the smallest of things?
Merry Christmas to you and Colin.
What a fabulous sun rise photo! Your new place looks so nice with all those Christmas lights strung up. Good thing your credit card got to you and wasn’t lost in transit. Enjoy the holidays and best wishes to you and Colin.
Have a wonderful Christmas, Colin and Contessa. We wish you love and cheers, good health and beautiful memories.
Great pictures of the girls last year and stunning sunset pictures!