Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Pelican Brief









We're heading off on a tour this morning, so here's a short summary of yesterday's events:

Walk ... pool ... conversation with Donna, Susan, and Jerri ... Jerri and Angel request photos of pelicans ... Matt complies ... photos taken ... back to the pool ... lunch in room ... back to the pool ... siesta ... Angel wants to ride "public transportation" downtown in late afternoon ... Donna and the girls off on an afternoon city tour with Marco ... Angel and I grab the shuttle and city bus ... try Te Amo Lucy's ... damn! Closed for the Holidays! ... Walk from Plaza to Moreno Pizza ... order up a medium Mexicana ...chorizo and jalapeno with lots of cheese and the best tomato sauce in the world ... dos cervesas ... 160 pesos with tip ... walk it off ... run into Donna, Susan, Jerri, and Marco at a Mexican wedding ... Festiva! ... they are headed to Pedro and Lola's ... we bid them Adios! until menana ... we walk to the Mercado ... catch the Sabalo Centro to PB Maz, then shuttle home ... go to Kelly's Bar for Happy Hour ... this last three hours ... meet Sandy from Chicago ... he's pissed off his twenty something daughters and esposa ... they've left him to his Scotch on the rocks ... Angel requests the piano player ... he appears as if out of hibernation ... I give him 100 pesos ... we drink, he plays ... Sandy tells us his life story ... we drink more ... the musica plays on ... about 10:30 we leave Sandy ... the pianist has called it a night ... we follow suit ... tomorrow will be a busy day.

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