Park staff put this guy up at the entrance to slow down traffic.
We had Christmas dinner up by the park pool. It was prepared by volunteers and the Mexican ladies from the park restaurant. We had a good time and the weather was perfect as usual.
Our table pool side
The big news is that La Peñita El Centro (Main street) is open to traffic. Yes, through some Christmas miracle the recent prediction of Easter turned out to be wrong. As we walked into town yesterday morning at 7:00 a.m. a mostly empty and open main street was before us. Was it the elves, what the.... It was a mess 2 days ago. Not all of the sidewalks are done and some side streets are still pretty rough but it's looking good.
La Peñita El Centro
Of course, the peaceful scene of early morning did not last long as everybody woke up. Guadalajara tourists were gathering outside of hotels with their suitcases, children, dogs, boxes, etc to wait for buses. These huge behemoths were indeed wallowing in the side streets attempting to pick up passengers and turn around in places I wouldn't want to take our CRV.
Get those avocados into town, lots of guacamole being eaten here
Must be in season here
Today was market day. People everywhere. Still, the little old man with his wheelbarrow of pineapples recognized me and waved with a big smile, telling his wife that he knew me. I said it was good to see him again and bought a pineapple. We bought strawberries, oranges and bananas and I made fruit drinks when we got home. We knew family had just flown in yesterday and of course we ran into them at the market.
It was so busy, Teri and I couldn't get a cab when it was time to leave. After a 15 minute wait and still no sign of an empty cab we walked home.
We had an interesting thing happen while we were on our patio visiting with a friend today. Cam said he smelled something that he wanted to blame on BC (Black Cat). Then Kirk was pulling at his lead towards the back of the RV by the electric post and water taps. We saw BC sneaking about there so we said "oh its just the cat". Then when our visitor left I went to see what caused the brief smell. Well, there was a snake laying there. BC had defended the home turf whilst the rest of us sat oblivious and Kirk tried to tell us BC needed him for backup. It was a Mexican Vine Snake. A fairly harmless snake which can grow to 5 ft long and has a mild venom which would make a human itchy.
BC was unscathed. This snake gives off a stink when attacked so that was the smell. When I went to throw the snake into the jungle below our patio it started to move. I knew what kind of snake it was and was using the broom so no big deal. It had one bite mark from the cat about 5 inches from its head so perhaps it will survive. Ware! all you things that crawl about, for BC is on guard.
Mexican Vine Snake
Too many touristas, cats, and dogs living together, this lizard is out of here
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