Thursday, November 10, 2005

This morning we had breakfast at the restaurant and I bought the hammock I had been looking at last night. It's beautiful, blue and green in opposite directions and the weave is so tight it looks like a solid piece of fabric. I also showed Demetria's daughter the small hammock we have for fruit and other stuff in the kitchen. It has to have a tight weave or things will fall through it and we had ours made a few years ago in Akumal. I made a deal for her to make 10 of them in various colors and we will pick them up in a month. I watched her weaving a hammock last night while we were eating dinner, she does great work and the weave is very tight with a lot of threads.

We started off again about noon, our usual 'crack of noon' departure. We got to Chetumal and found the small town of Calderitas where our friend's land is located. We checked in to a beautiful place on the bay, huge lawns and small palapas right on the water. It's expensive, 220 pesos a night which is approximately $22 US dollars. It's very nice though and we are enjoying the breeze off the bay and the gorgeous view. We found Kathe and Colleen's land on our second try. The first time we just drove up the road and looked for their RV. No luck. Then we asked the girl here and she gave us the name of a restaurant up the road and said they would know. We went there and they did know. She told us to look for 3 pieces of wood in the gate just south of them and ... we found them!

By this time it was dark so we couldn't see much but we are moving up there tomorrow. The four of us went to dinner in Chetumal, at an Arabic restaurant. The food was really good, we both had Shawama chicken. I have no idea what that is except that there was also Shawama beef and the waiter said it was a way of cooking the meat. Afterwards we came back here and Mimi and I sat out under our palapa in the cool breeze that came in with some rain. Beautiful!

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