There were sappy sentiments like the following on the walls of our beach house. This one says that we don't remember the days, we remember the moments:
So here are several memorable moments from Chacala.
The family knows that Pete is very talented at blending in socially. However, when he announced on the second day of our vacation that he was going to go down to the pier and see if the fishermen would let him go with them on a boat, I said no way. First of all, he doesn't speak Spanish. Second, these were working fishermen. Why would they want to take a tourist with them. So I bet him 100 pesos that he couldn't do it. He accepted the bet. Donna bet another 100 pesos on his side. I lost 200 pesos. Moreover, the rest of the week guys were knocking at our door, asking if Pete could come out to play help them mend their nets. Here's the pier at 7:00 in the morning, with trucks lined up to load the catch of the day:
Whale watching. Pretty close.
Pete and Yarrow went fishing. We all had a bite or two of their catch:
One of the highlights of the vacation was a meal of sarandeado (spelled in a variety of ways). We had it a couple of years ago with our son and his wife and we ordered it again for this group. It's a very big, large-boned, meaty fish, cooked on a mesquite grill. Very tasty:
Kristi, Michael and el sr J dig in:
Donna and Pete contemplated eating the eyeballs, a la Anthony Bourdain, but after feeling them for a bit, they decided against it:
Francisco Cárdenas (who has spent time in Madison, WI) gave my sister a massage and made her feel like a new woman. In fact, we worried that she wasn't going to open her eyes after he manipulated her aura:
Every night we had to pack up the food outside and put it into our bedrooms because of the night raiding coatimundi. Apparently his favorite food is avocados, one of which he nabbed on our first night there, but on our last night he had to be satisfied with some tortillas we forgot to bring in. They were a poolside snack for him:
Where will we go and what animal behavior will we encounter next year?
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