Mazatlan 2007

Friday, February 9 (Pat)

Our last full day in Mazatlan! Since we were out of milk, we had breakfast at the Playa Maria restaurant after getting the first round of packing done. Then we decided to spend some more pesos and pick up a few more items. At the Mexican craft area opposite Pueblo Bonito I found a silver chain that I liked - $12US. We got some carved leather coasters at another store and I bought a t-shirt and dress/sleepshirt/bathing suit cover-up at Johnny’s Place. Ron got his post card for Rod and sent them all off. Then off to the beach at Chili’s Pepper for some chips and salsa with a couple of Pacificos. Ron wandered off to take some beach activity videos and I held down the table in the shade, saying ‘no’ to the vendors. A few would chat and I practiced my Spanish. When the silver jewelry vendors came by I would say I’m looking for mother-of-pearl earrings. Several didn’t have any I liked. Finally one came by with some nice, shiny, iridescent pendant and after he changed the hook parts to match I paid him $170MN. Ron came back and we had another beer. An old Mexican gentleman came by with a ceramic frog and mobile. They were colorful but not what we like. I mentioned tortugas (turtles). Sure enough a few minutes later he comes back with a bag. He starts unwrapping these smaller ceramic turtles painted in all colors - yellow, pink, red, lavender, green, blue. Soon I had a small herd of turtles in front of me. $20MN each. So I bought two turtles and another little bowl with a sun lid. The guy works hard for sixty pesos!

Back to Playa Maria, sat by the pool for a while, did some email then caught the bus again to check out the sunset on the malecon. Pretty plain tonight but we enjoyed a Pacifico and watched the crowd. Ron gave away some more kid gifts as well. We walked up to Cowboy and had another beer at the bar – sitting in Mexican Saddles for bar stools. I guess I had one beer too many as after paying for the beer I neglected to close the zipper on my pouch purse. We walked a ways then caught a bus to go to Chili’s Pepper. I realized the 500 and 100 peso notes I had were gone – my donation to some gringo or maybe a sharp-eyed Mexican! We had our last dinner at Chili’s. It was crowded and the music was loud but good. Ron had chicken fajitas and I had shrimp fajitas. $170MN for dinner and tip! Excellent meal. Some of the crowd was doing some swing dancing to the country music, having a good time.

Back to the ATM to get money for lunch and taxi tomorrow, get some milk, and back to Playa Maria. A very pleasant day – another beautiful, warm, sunny day.