Friday, January 8, 2010

Visiting Old Town Puerto Vallarta

January 4, 2010 That’s the first time I had to write the new date and it sure seems funny.

We decided to take a trip to PV today and explore the City Center. We also had some errands to run. We had to visit the shopping center as the phone we bought two weeks ago has already died. We also had to go to Walmart and get Kelly a DS. As we will be leaving the marina this week Kelly decided she wanted her birthday gift early because we will be out of touch with computers for a few weeks and she needs something to keep her occupied - school work is not enough and she is plowing through books so fast I can't keep up. We also had to go and pick up a package that Alyce Matsui left for us at the hotel where they stayed when they were down here for the holidays which just happened to be around the corner from Walmart. THANK YOU TARYN BINDER AND ALYCE FOR GETTING US THE CARDS AND LETTERS FROM HOME. WE LOVED THEM. ALSO A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT WROTE TO KELLY AND RYAN.

Then after all the “chores” were done – (WE STILL HAVE NO PHONE AS THE WARRANTY TO REPLACE OUR PHONE WAS FOR 14 DAYS AND WE BROUGHT IT BACK ON DAY 16 – IT HAS NOW BEEN SENT TO GUADALAJARA TO BE FIXED) – we went to explore El Centro Puerto Vallarata and the Malecon.

We had a great lunch, walked around and used art on the Malecon to make more art and then we dropped in on the church here which is also named – Our Lady of Guadalupe. We explored the local flea market and finally broke down and bought a hammock. Then we headed back to the marina where he had plans to meet a lot of our neighbors to go and watch the release of sea turtles at sun down.



Browsing through the flea market where Kelly bought a new hammock.



Our Lady of Guadalupe of Puerto Vallarta.  You can tell that when it was built there was nothing else around but boy have they encased it since it was first built.  You can barely see it from the beach which is only two blocks away.  The dome is a silver crown.

This is the alter inside the church it is beautiful and the pictures I took do not give it justice.
 


A rare family photo of us all with the "mother" in the scupture entitled "In Search of Reason."  The next few pictures will tell you why it is called that.
 

This is the entire sculpture!.  Both kids had to climb up on it and try it out.

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