november 28, saturday.....hope this finds everyone healthy and happy. did anyone overeat thanksgiving??? i sure did. had way too much food and pie. but sure was good. got to say happy birthday to rose last night. hope they aren't too hung over today. our weather has turned on us a little bit, overcast, windy and raining. sound familiar? the difference is we excpect sun and warm weather again on monday. guess we have to swim inside today. picked up my prescription yesterday, but they only ordered 6 days worth. guess i have to go back to wal mart again next week. oh darn. more shopping...lol. also got our costco cards, so that's another shopping trip. i need to get an iron and a fry daddy. so far i haven't found either down here, but i haven't given up yet. i'll keep looking. i was going to wear a dress for thanksgiving, but when i got them out, they were so wrinkled i threw them in the laundry bag and wore pants. so i NEED an iron (never thought i'd say that). a fry daddy because the shrimp would be so good deep fried or tampura'd. nothing much going on today cept watching the tube. we did see "Pirates of the Caribbean, World's End". was a lot weirder than the last one, but still good. gonna be another one, of that i'm sure. probably The fountain of youth, or something like that. now we are watching Sleepless in Seattle. one of my favorite all time movies. gotta make dan some lunch, so will close for now. adios mi amigo y amigas hugs

today is monday, november 23. just a few lines today to let everyone know we are healthy and doing well. enjoying the weather, ha ha. it really does get chilly around 3 in the afternoon and the wind comes up pretty brisk. by evening, tho, it is warm again. hasn t been uncomfortably hot at all. dan got to be the controller of the ensenada net this morning. itś a station on the sailors radio that broadcasts every week day morning at 8 am and is just newsy for all the boaters in the ensenada area. he was great and added just enough humor. everyone was giving him kudoś up and down the docks today. his head size grew alittle bigger i think. i ordered some freshly made tamales from a local and they were delivered a short time ago. i ate all three before they could cool down. yum cant get that in the states. we went to walmart this morning to load up on supplies. it is kinda interesting to get groceries when you dont speak, read, or understand very much spanish. i think i bought some stuff that should be a real surprise when i open it. but we did stop by the shrimp truck and bought a kilo (about 25) of jumbo shrimp. they are about as big as my foot and are fresh from the water that morning. they are amazing. so now you know we are eating good, exercising regularly and enjoying the mexican way of life. anything that doesnt get done today, is good enough for manana. sending our love to all. hugs

friday, nov. 20th hi all, thought i would write a short note today. just finished my swim, hot tub, steam bath and shower and am ready to get something else done. we have been working on the mast boot for the last couple of days. we took all the old glue and junk off the old one, repainted the bottom of the mast and have re-sealed the wood and put on a new boot and sealed it. today i am sewing on the blue boot cover with my sail mending kit. not an easy job and my hands and fingers get really sore after about 10 minutes. i took a break for my shower and when i get back to the boat, i will try to finish it up. the baja 1000 is running this weekend and it is noisy and confused in town so everyone is staying close to their boats and the marina. early next week, we will go into town for some supplies. i really like shopping in town at the open veg & fruit stands. they offer a great variety of fresh ¨ picked this morning"goodies. we also want to stop and get some more jumbo shrimp. they were as big as my foot and really delicious. we got a kilo (25 shrimp) for about $10. also need to check the pharmacy at wal-mart for my prescription. everything else is pretty much the same. blue skies, warm sun, (not too hot) , and happy thoughts. we are doing well, fat and sassy as usual and hope everyone out there in the rain is taking good care of themselves. lol do not know what the problem is with me, but i just don´t miss the rain!!! love u all hugs

well, itś sunday in paradise, we had a swim this morning and have been just hanging around the boat today drinking cervesa and enjoying the day. not much to do around here except enjoy the day. the dogs love it here and we take them up for a run off leash almost every day. there is a beautiful beach where they can go for a dip and plenty of grass to run in. we are going to have dinner tonight at the bar in the hotel. good regular tacos and good fish tacos tool and of course a margarita or two. everyone is good, healthy and actually losing weight. not that we needed to, lol. the swimming every day is helping my muscles cope with all the health problems and i actually do feel much stronger, so i am going to keep at it every day. until the next time, be safe, keep healthy and laugh alot. hugs

we got into ensenada tuesday night, around 6:15pm, it was dark and really hard to see the enterance into this marina, but we finally made it without hitting any other boats. it is so warm and beautiful here and the people are so friendly that when we paid for our moorage wednesday morning, we paid for a whole month. this marina has a hotel, two outdoor swimming pools and a hot tub, indoor pool with hot tub, a spa with sauna and steam room, a beauty salon, which by the way Sue, i need desperately. the marina van took us to town and helped us with customs, immigration and the boat. we are good for a year and it took less than one hour. we heard horror stories of it taking a whole day to do the paperwork, so we feel very lucky. we passed the "Black Pearl" on the way into town and when i have a chance, i will take pictures of it for you, Lori. they also have the set here that the movie was shot so i'll look into that also. we went into town today to do some needed grocery shopping. caught a ride with Terry who has the sailboat across the dock from us. he's also from washington. what a small world we live in. anyway, we went to WAL-MART!!! i checked out my $3000.00 a month prescription with their pharmacist and it will only cost around $60.00 here. what a rip the US pharmaceutical companies are pulling on us. We stopped and bought fresh produce and fruit from some local vendors along a block long street. wow. spent around $5 for lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pomegranite, limes, kiwi, oranges, avacado,and some other stuff. i'm thinking of staying the rest of my life. lol. then we stopped for fish tacos and coca cola. i had a fish taco and a shrimp taco...oooh la la. never tasted better. dan had his first fish taco and is a real believer now. we stopped and picked up terry's laundry. they took it in at 10 this morning and got it at 3pm all washed, pressed and folded. how neat is that??? less than they would have paid at the laundromat. i might have to give that a try. we went up to the hotel bar for dinner tonight and had a hamburger. i also had 3 margarita's on the rocks. much better than blended ones. absolutely perfect. dan had 3 pacifico beers. so that's got you all up to date for now. call on our cell phone 253-670-2702 if you want to., we signed up with a mexican plan that gives us 900 daytime minutes and 1000 weekend and nights, plus they roll over at the end of the month if we dont use them. quite a deal. hope you are all well and i send all our love.....hugs

we took the rental car back this morning and are getting things stowed and battened down. got our mexican fishing licenses and some fishing gear so we can catch dinner on our way to baja. we are leaving in the morning and going to ensenada to check into mexican waters. we will stay tues and wed. then leave thurs for turtle bay. i think we will be traveling the same route as the baja ha-ha so we can pretend we actually did the ha ha. lol. we are still officially part of it and will receive our 3rd place trophy in cabo. lucky huh? after today our cells won't work so e-mail and snail mail will have to do. once we get to LaPaz we will be getting our mail more regularly, so that may be the best way to reach us. we will be staying at the Palmiera Marina in LaPaz so you all know where we are. ha ha. the weather is beautiful here and i really hate to leave, but we must be mov ing on. so until the next stop. hasta manana and hugs, of course.

i'm in the clear. whoo hoo! got the results todayand i'm good to go. i have to continue with the injections for 3 months. i'm in the donut hole for medicare and i had to pay for 30 days worth of the shots, it only cost $3000.00. yes, that is the correct amount of zeroes. hopefully when we get to mexico, it will be a little cheaper. we will be leaving san diego on tuesday, nov. 10th. we are celebrating tonight with steaks and salad. i am really looking forward to dinner, after having hospital jello for so long....yuk. hope all is well with all of you. l love you all. take care. hugs

hi all. sorry this has taken so long, but here goes...got into san diego without any mishaps. has some fog for awhile, but it cleared up and we had blue skies n blue water. we left santa barbara on oct. 15 and in to san diego the next evening around 6 pm. had to wait in the chanel enterance for a submarine going out, that was kinda cool. got fuel and into our slip, #122, put things in order and went for showers. what a beautiful city. the harbor here is so full of boats, you could spend hours watching them. we met a couple from seattle on this dock. they are on the Bristol Blue and they are ned and kristen. they are flying to seattle tomorrow for a grandchild fix, but will be back in a week or so. we have a mechanic coming to fix a small oil leak that we can't trace. after he got here, i started feeling really bad and had an ache in my left back and down to my pelvic area that just wouldn't go away and kept getting more severe. then i started vomiting. after he got the mechanic settled in and working he asked me what was wrong and when i told him he asked if i wanted the paramedics and i said yes. they came and took me away. i was in university california san diego hospital for 10 days undergoing tests. they think i had a kidney stone and passed it, but a few of the tests they gave me showed a blood clot on the artery to my intestine and some swollen lymph nodes. i am taking a blood thinner to keep the clot from getting any bigger, by injection twice a day. we won't know the results from the lymph node biopsy til tuesday or wed., so we are kinda stuck here for a few more days. we missed the baja ha ha fleet, but are still entered so we will get third place when we finally get to cabo. i have to be checked in a week, so we are planning on leaving here on saturday. we didn't have any trick or treaters, but kimberley and garth are here on the irish diplomacy and they came down for a wine cooler. they i went over to dr. dave's boat and trick or treated for a beer. dr. dave is an ob/gyn and has a boat right across the dock from us. he has beer on tap and his wife bought him a cooler for it so the beer is always at the right temp. whatta life. this is a wonderful marina and has a great deli that has daily specials. sometimes they pull out the bbq and have hamburgers and hotdogs. they make great breakfasts, too. we met another couple that left with the ha ha. they are steve n rita on the lady j.. guess it was a good thing we didn't leave when they did. they had 30 foot waves and a horrible storm. one boat was sunk when they ran into a pod of whales. they were all safely rescued, but their boat sunk in about 5 min. not a good thing. so that's about it for now. no worries everyone is safe and sane still. take care and love to all of you. hugs