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