April 1,2 and 3, 2016 Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico

Friday,  April 1, 2016

We started our morning coffee.  At 10:30 I went out to the drive and waited for my ride to a geocacher meet and greet in San Jose Del Cabo.  The GeoNavPros, Derek and Karin, picked me up.  They were the organizers of the event.  I had met them last year on Pi day at another meet and greet.  There were just the three of us at the event, two other cachers had posted that they couldn't make it.  We had coffee and breakfast, we were at the restaurant for about an hour.  Derek took me to another cache in San Jose that I hadn't found.  It was an easy find and I signed one of the last spots on the log.  Karin replaced the log.  They come to Los Cabos every year and make it a point to maintain other people's caches in the area.

No Clouds!

We got back to the Hacienda Del Mar at about 1:20.  I had them drop me off nearest the pool.  I joined Gerri at the pool in time for the daily Loteria games.  We both won one, the final game only with one different cards.

As usual we stayed at the pool area and read until about 4:30.

When I checked the computer before dinner, I found that two other cachers from Holland had signed the log of the meet and greet as having attended.  I don't know how or if we missed them.  I was wearing a geocaching shirt and Derek had a GPS unit and several travel bugs on the table.  In the spirit of April 1st, I posted a note that it had been good meeting and talking to them.

Gerri made a bean and beef dish for dinner and served it on tortillas, tostado style with avocado and carrots on the side, delicious.







More reading, Sudoku and a little TV brought us to the end of the day.










Saturday April 2, 2016

Our usual morning, coffee and reading.

We went to the pool area and played Loteria.  I won one game.  We left the resort after Loteria and headed downtown to attend a geocache meet and greet,  Derek hadn't included the name of the restaurant so I had to look up the names of the streets at the coordinates so we could tell the taxi driver where to take us.

Derek and Karin were already at the meeting place when we got there.  They had a sign in on a blackboard.  The third cacher was there briefly.  He dropped Derek and Karin before he had to take care of some business at one of the rental homes he manages in the area.  We had snacks at the La Taquiza.  It is a hole in the wall, while on a main street into town from our resort, it is away from the more popular restaurants in downtown.  Beside the chips and dips we tried a Costras, cheese crusts.  This is kind of like a quesadilla without the tortilla. The cheese is fried crispy and then stuffed and rolled.  Ours was stuffed with shrimp.  Very tasty.  This restaurant isn't as sophisticated as Pancho's and others, but we will be back.  It is the item in the upper right of the La Taquiza menu.

After the meeting broke up we said goodbye to the GeoNavPros, they return home to the Vancouver, BC area on Sunday.  We will probably see them again next year.  We walked to the Cabo Coffee Company and then to Salvatore's Italian restaurant a few blocks away.  On the way we saw a shrimp restaurant named Maro's.  We took a picture because Gerri has a friend by that name from high school.

Salvatore's had been recommended to us by people we have met in Cabo over the years, but this was the first time we ate there.  The restaurant is in the courtyard of the Siesta Suites Hotel on Calle Emilio Zapata.  It is not far from Pancho's, just around the corner and down about a half block.  The food was excellent, the portions were large.  Gerri had Lasagna and I had a dish called Mamma's Sunday Gravy.  We split a salad.  Probably because it had only been a couple of hours since we had snacks at La Taquiza, we had a lot of left overs.

Gerri's lasagna

We hailed a taxi in front of the restaurant and returned to the Hacienda Del Mar.

We called it a night after some reading.  This trip I have finished 7 books plus one I started last November.




Sunday April 3, 2016

There was a time change during the night, spring ahead.  We are now on Mountain Time.  We had our coffee and then tuned into the worship service at Oakey Boulevard via the internet.  Mark West delivered the message.  Randy Mabe, our regular preacher, was in southern California.  He officiated the wedding of one of the young men, Brandon Green, that we had help send to the Memphis School of Preaching.  He now preaches at the Church of Christ in Lemoore, CA.

We went to the pool area and played the Loteria games.  I won another one today.  Years ago when we started coming here there was a large Iguana that used to hang around the shrubs around the pool and sun it's self on the rock.  We saw it briefly a couple of days ago and didn't get a good picture.  This afternoon Gerri spotted a smaller one and did get a picture.

Since the time changed we stayed later at the pool.  Back in our unit Gerri warmed up some of the left overs from Salvatore's.  As usual, Italian left overs are even better the second night.  We now have leftovers again for tomorrow.

Some reading and a little TV finished off the evening.