Last Days in PV

Jon: Well we're wrapping up our time in Puerto Vallarta.  We've enjoyed the R&R we've had here, and certainly tried to catch up on all the sleep we lost during the last weeks leading up to now :).  Siestas galore!  We've also been to the beach a few times, I wish we could have gone to a more secluded beach though.  At Los Muertos beach, you end up sharing it with 10,000 leatherbacks who broil themselves for weeks on end.  And of course, if you dare sit down, the venders take that as a sign you want to buy something, so they all approach like circling vultures, preying on us nice Canadians who can't say no.  Except that these two can :), and have said "no gracias" at least a hundred times a day.  But the water is nice, the waves are half decent, and well, its a sunny warm BEACH!  Snow? never heard of it here.  30 degrees in January, oh yeah!  Better believe it :).

Yesterday we went and bought another half roast chicken for lunch, and this time the girl tried to rip us off of 40 pesos, they do it so smoothly with a smile on there face.  But when you point it out to them, they don't even try to protest, they just look at each other and smile, "darn we got caught, oh well".  No apologies.  I guess there must be plenty of gullible tourists here who don't say anything becuase they are afraid to be rude or something.  I think we'll get used to it.  It'll be even better when my spanish improves and I can actually tell them off politely in spanish :).  Anyway, I wouldn't want to leave the impression we aren't loving it here, we expected all of this and more when we got here, and we look at each other and smile each time they try to rip us off.  I'm sure they'll get us sometime, but not yet.  You just can't be afraid to call them on it :). Tomorrow, we leave the beach town and head to Guadalajara!  A city of 6 million people, more than the province of BC.  I'm looking forward to the trip through the mountains, should make for some great photos!

Michelle:  I think it's all starting to catch up on us, the preparation to pack up your life and go on a journey with many unknowns is apparently tiring. I think I can get used to these Siestas! We've really needed this time to charge our batteries for what's up and coming. School starts Tuesday and it will be pretty intense so we gotta catch the sleep we can while we can. However on the note of sleep, last night it was extremely difficult to tune out the jet engine we had a few floors away. I'm not kidding, you have NEVER heard anything like it! This was no ordinary snoring, this was incredibly loud, it was like having an F18 above our bed with a constant whirring, and I guess the amusing part is that he (we assume it was a he, no woman could ever rev an engine like that and shake a 5 floor hotel) was a couple of floors away from us and it was still unbearable!!  We saw a gorgeous sunset last night, and an acrobat street show, so a fantastic way to finish up our time in PV. Our latest pictures can be seen at:  Last days in PV  We'll try to get som photos of the sunset up.  This blogging business is tough to keep up with :).