Our New Glasses

We went to the optometrist in town and came away with new glasses. This is what we look like now.

Third Annual Las Jaibas Chili Cookoff

Saturday was the big Chili Cookoff here that benefits one of the orphans' homes in town. It was a huge success. The chili ran out in less than an hour, instead of the two hours alloted for voting. Northie's was the best but, once again, she did not win. Que lastima.

We had fun, Hal ate a lot of good chili, and the orphans won.

Tamales

Our First Tamale

 

Another fun Mazatlan experience – this one started on Twelfth Night (or Epiphany) which we celebrated here at the bus with our Mazatlan family.  Our friend Ismael baked an awesome bread with little figures baked into it.  If you got a piece that had one of these little guys in it, you had to make Tamales for the gang on Feb. 2 (Candelaria).  Of course, Hal got one of them.  Sooooooooo………

Yesterday, we both worked our little heinies off and made 17 beautiful, tasty tamales.  And we were the ONLY ones at the gathering that actually made them from scratch.  The other tamales we ate were ordered ahead of time.  We had a fun meal with our friends.  Making the tamales was one of my favorite parts of the week.  Yummmmm…