Thursday, January 03, 2008

Back from Puerto Vallarta to Cold Chicago

My goodness its cold here. Yes, the temp is near zero, but tomorrow it will be near 50--its hard to believe that.
It was chilly in Puerto Vallarta too, but just at night. Sweater weather, and long pants. But the days were warm and sunny for the most part and I got some major sunburn, even using lots of sunscreen. My advice--the spray on stuff isn't very reliable. Suns burn appears in strange places, like the back of arms, on the tops of the feet. So a switch to heavy duty--like 50spf stuff in the tube. Still, sunburn. So the last resort was to wear a bathing suit, shorts and a tee shirt. That worked the best. Anyway, I was going back to Chicago, to wearing long pants and turtleneck sweaters, long sleeves, socks and boots. About the only place that any tan shows is my face and hands. I do have a nice dark tan, but it will last only a few days.
What did we do in Mexico? Mostly nothing. We sat on the beach during the day. Then in the afternoon, when the breeze started up and it got cloudy and a little chilly, we walked on the boardwalk. We changed that a bit, and had a late lunch at the taco stand or bought shrimp on a stick from the shrimp on a stick lady on the beach. In the evening, we went out late to eat at nice restaurants.
There are things to do in Puerto Vallarta, like para sailing, swimming with the dolphins, going on a pirate ship booze cruise, going to a Mexican fiesta, taking a canopy ride over the jungle, going fishing or snorkeling. We mostly walked around the town, looking in junky touristy shops and the junky touristy mercado. I did buy two magnets--from the shop in the hotel.
We did one cultural thing--we went to most of the art galleries. That was interesting.
I decided to take pictures on the beach--mostly of the beach vendors. Then I expanded to taking pictures of interesting people on the beach, then of interesting people in the town. Some of these will appear on this blog soon. Most of these will go into a scrapbook. Someday.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds idyllic. What about the photo of the turquoise string bikini?
-Barb

7:14 PM  

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