We are off at 8:00 on a bus trip to Uruapan and Lake Patzcuaro this morning. My little net book is misbehaving so badly it is taking me hours to do anything on it. Picture down loading very slow and I continually get “google is not responding” “Explorer is not responding,” and being a slow typist on top of that left me so frustrated yesterday I gave up. So on the long bus ride I will have time to organize my thoughts and catch up on a couple of days and until Urauapan. Signing off KO
Business Class
I guess I’m not signing off, I can hardly believe this but I am on line on the Parhikuni bus as we travel. No chickens or pigs, but one very upset cat howling in the baggage bay. We are on business class, not first class, but very, very nice. Sure beats the heck out of Greyhound. Our seats recline there is a leg rest like a recliner chair and internet, movies an much more that I can’t figure out!
Our last couple of days have been very busy. We’ve started using our Sailfest Auction dinner certificates. We like to bid on the dinners as it gets us to new places we might not have otherwise discovered. And since auctions for the Senor are all about winning we always pick up several.
Sunday night we walked to the Hotel Irma for our dinner, the very long way as I thought I knew where I was going. Upon arriving we met friends from my sail boat excursion who refer the hotel as Mount Irma, and I couldn’t agree more. The restaurant was a lovely terrace with a view to die for. The senor’s steak was to his liking but fillet in garlic and butter turned out to be breaded and not to my liking. Our friend had the same fish with the same results.
We had a pleasant walk back downtown thru Calle Adelita where I saw a night blooming tree. Absolutely fantastic! 
The next night we ate dinner at El Arrayan with friends Will and Sylvia right next to the tree and we were able to watch several of the blossoms opening up while we had a really great mahi mahi. This time it really was in garlic and butter. We topped this off with ice cream with Kahula . Then for a night cap at the
Flophouse bar. Always so nice to never need a sweater no matter how late you stay.
The day before leaving on this trip I had time to get a pedicure, kind of a orange/bronze color and she then put tiger stripes over. Quite cute! I was then on my way to the little church to light a candle for our friend Jack who reluctantly had to leave Zihuatanejo early with serious health issues when I ran into Iris and Preston at Tres Amigos. We had met them the night of Christine’s birthday party but I was so indisposed that I didn’t get a chance to visit with them. So I visited with them while they lunched and we had a very nice visit that had been missed before.
This was my second trip to the church with the candle as the first time I didn’t see anyway to light, had to return the next day with a clicker. I think one of the reasons we enjoy it here so much is that everything we do here is slower, we take much more time getting from one place to another as we mostly walk, and then we talk and point out different thing that interest us to each other. Our meals are more like events than just a necessity. We meet people on the street and start up conversations with complete strangers and become friends. Here life slows down to a reasonable pace where we really do stop to watch the flowers blooming. From somewhere between Zihuatanejo and Uruapan gazing at very green countryside with the cat still howling in the baggage bay, Signing off KO
Zihuathyme 