hi all, well, we made it thru the tsunami threat yesterday safe and sound. we went up to the hotel to wait it out, but we had nothing to speak of. thank god for small favors. it did give us all a good scare tho. every one was either securing their boats or heading out to deeper water. quite a few left the marina, but most stayed and prayed nothing would happen. we met up on the second floor of the hotel and watched the ocean for about and hour or so, then came back to the boat. life is good. excitement keeps us young.

we bought the car and went up to san diego to transfer the title. we had to have u.s. insurance to transfer the title, so we now have u.s. and mexican insurance. we can go anywhere we want to. we have some new people in the marina from canada. bob and jane on "beautiful butterfly".
they needed to go to town for groceries and a tv, so we took them in to costco, wal mart and home depot. then we came back to town later for happy hour at la vendemia (cruisers happy hour is every thursday from 4pm to whenever). la vendemia use to be the ensenada yacht club, but is now an italian restaurant. we have a lot of fun and get to meet cruisers from the 3 other marinas in town. we have a media consultant that comes in and sells dvd's for 2 pesos each so we bought Avatar and ordered a few more that we will pick up next Thursday night. pretty good prices, eh?

Dan and I are taking spanish lessons every wednesday morning after the cruisers breakfast. our professora is alejandra. she lives just up the beach from the hotel, so we walk up. there are 7 of us taking lessons at the same time. we have Mark (from Groovy), Mike (from Defiant), Suzanne (kickin it), Beth and Gary (fun in the sun) and dan & I. it is hard, but lots of fun and we all practice on each other when we can, especially on the walk to class. we have had two lessons so far and she has us practicing sentences already. She is a slave driver. and we are expected to do home work!! and know what we learned last week. wow. the phrasing is the hardest part. very different from english. but we are enjoying it and some day, maybe, i will be able to carry on a conversation in spanish.

guess i had better end this weeks blog, running out of things to say. ha ha. so take care, stay healthy and be happy. love to all hugs

well, here i am again, in beautiful ensenada. looks as though we are going to stay until hurricane season is over....after september anyway. we are in the process of buying a car from some fellow cruisers that are planning on leaving in a few weeks to a month. they are heading south and hope to land in chile eventually. that's a long cruise, but like us, they have time and can see some really different and beautiful places along the way. we wish them fair winds and following seas. they are Bob and Jean from "Flewzy Coup". the car is a Ford Contour, 1996.
We will now be able to go places and do things more often and not have to rely on friends with vehicles or take the bus or a cab, altho, there will be times we will still need the local mode of transportation. Like happy hour nights in town!!

it is Carnivale time here and the town is packed with people celebrating. Singing and dancing in the streets, very much the same as Mardi Gras. i think we will be going in tomorrow for the parade and saturday night festivities. should be lots of fun.

We have some new neighbors on D Dock. They are Mark and Emily on the s/v Groovy. She just had a birthday and we helped her celebrate it with Beth and Gary from the s/v Fun in the Sun on Wednesday. had a few beers, a shot of Don Peron tequila and some good snacks. was quite enjoyable and didn't have to walk far to get back home. Speaking of birthday's, i have to wish my very good friend LORI a great happy birthday and wish i had been there to help her celebrate another year. i haven't missed one for a long time, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LORI.

We did go into TJ's for Super Bowl and had a really fun time. and of course, the best team won!!! We aren't big football fans but we had to root for someone, so we picked the underdog. Who knew.? After the game ended we walked over to La Vendemia, which has happy hour for cruisers on thursday night, to see if we won anything in the superbowl pools, but of course, we didn't. had a couple of margaritas there, then went home. super day, superbowl!

can't think of much more that's interesting from this point of view, cept that the weather is getting warmer and the sun is lasting longer in the day. that's the way i like it, uh huh, uh huh.
so with that i'll close with the normal "i love and miss you all. hasta luego mi amigos