Copa Cabana - new pictures

The Copa Cabana !!  The garden in front is  coming along very nicely :))))

view from livingroom to kitchen

the back bedroom

view towards south

sand and rock piles : they are fixing the roads in Bocana - yahoooooo

beach @ 5 min walk !!!!!!

March 23, 2010 Tuesday

today we have a full house !!!  the coop sent a guy over last night at around 8ish who is their refigeration man.  guess they are having cooling problems. He will stay one or 2 days depending on whether he can fix the problem there or not. Being that he left at 8 this morning and it is now almost 3 ... it must be a pretty difficult task.  Yup, he called to say he will be around for another day

view south from front door Copa Cabana

Luckily I was on the computer til late last night because around 10 ish, we get a call from a group of 4 and they want to stay one or 2 days - each in their own room. They are biologists and will be conducting, I presume, the abalone testing to see how many abalone can be harvested this season - which began yesterday.  Full house - Les needs to finish the last room right away.  And he needs to finish the new house too since Nikki may be renting it in June...busy busy busy ...

so far for the bike race we have: ambulance and paramedic set up, organizers from GN confirmed to come Saturday and help out, food to be served and sold, garage sale stuff  but I still need to line up a salesperson, get all the plants ready to sell, request full tank of diesel for the ambulance from PA to here ....

BIKES - the main point is that the bikes are hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Oh = the award certificates came out amazingly beautiful !!

bikes

Jose and Jose and family

March 22, 2010 Monday

today i posted for donations of surfboards, skateboards, bikes and helmets on bloody decks...i am kinda scared of the reaction . they are a much rowdier crowd.  they are heavy duty fishermen. not sure what the response will be ...but you cannot lose can ya ?  and i have to try every avenue.  i want to be ready for the surf contest next january. last year's contest was wonderful.  the contest was fantastic.

now,. wrote to Lou Razo and they are coming down this weekend.  April 17 is their bazaar sale and he says, dare i believe it, that i can have their leftovers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

big sigh of relief. that will be stupendous and will help a lot. If durangotang (baja nomad) can ship his helmets to arrrive by Friday, then Lou can bring them for Sunday.  Imagine if they arrive for the bike race !!!  ahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  they just might !!

the delegado called the delgada in Punta Abreojos to request the ambulance for the race. what a miracle. this is the very first time he has done anything at all to help me in any way. i am having Nacho call and ask for the diesel to fill it up. all good. all good.  well...the president of the coop and I talked. he could not understand why i want them to fillup the gas tank in the ambulance:  here is the explanation
1. if we dont use the gas, it goes right back to his town
2. i want kids form punta abreojos to be able to get bikes as well
3. it would be nice to end the rivalry between the two towns - it is  unnecessary and beyond ridiculous

Yolie wants to sell food at the race - good idea !!

i want to sell plants and used stuff.

i do need to call dr romero and ask him to be on standby.  dr rafael already said YES

I do have paper to be printed up as reconocimentos and gave it to Linda who will give to Nacho who will give to Irma who will ...see how complicated it gets ?????  hahahahah

March 21, 2010 Sunday

we got the bikes - the boys wanted to go with us, but really, we were worried about room  even in our huge truck !!  but it all fit ... so we got the call from Rebeca at 11 and at 11:30 we left for Campo Fisher. Once there, we went inside the restaurant and soon 2 motorcyclists came in. Since there were only 2 tables and the only other was full, I invited them to join us. They are with a group of 16 bikers driving all the way from Canada to Cabo San Lucas !!  Sometimes there are up to 40 of them. Of course, we gave them our cards and invited them to come and visit.  After about 20 min, Jose and Jose showed up !!  And their wives and their 5 kids !!  Bikes gazooo and mom's bags and  what fun !!!  I am sure they will be by here on Wed to stay instead of Asuncion ... for sure they got excited about Bocana !!  they will have a week at Conception to enjoy those warm waters by themselves ... since Semana Santa doesnt start til next week - they will have a whole beach to themselves...smart smart thinking

this is Victor Alfredo's dad ...the surf tournament in Jan was dedicated to his son who died in a car accident....Now the father had kicked the son out since he had gotten a girl pregnant ... many regrets now ...Dad spends every weekend fixing up the grave. Built a house for it and put surfboards and all sorts of stuff inside. Too late folks - think about how you handle life so as not to fall into the same guilty rut. too late is simply .... too late

thenwe drove back - uneventful trip - and the bokana beach bikers came to help unload. they are so excited about the donations and the bikes and now I think a lot of little ones will be joining !!!  our club will be huge !!!  not only that, Jose and Jose know someone in San Diego who works at Walmart and they can donate up to 30 new bikes ... gotta be happy about that !!!  WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

All 3 of us in our 1st Trnmt tee-shirts !!

we are having a goodbye dinner for Bruce who is going to La Paz ... my  guess is that he will miss us and hightail it back real soon !!! bets for no more than a week or 10 days at most in la paz ....

Les found a ton of surf competition photos he forgot to download from his camera ... such a shame ... they are beautiful !!  So, I have posted some of the here

March 20, 2010 Saturday

Les has the new ceiling up at the new house

this is the truck Jose is bringing with mom's garage sale stuff and 6 bikes - 2 from Jose and 4 from Doug and KariNina :000 ))

Bruce and Gary returned from Tres Virgenes

Wendy and Lyn were here for 3 days and are now in P Abreojos ...  such a nice couple and they will be back in October. Hope they have a safe journey home - I saw the pics of their accident on the way down = horrendous !  2 trailers meeting on the road can only give disastrous results

they gave me an interesting link to a newsletter their community in la ventana has ... it is phenomenal

Lyn also let the boys ride his 10 K bike this morning.  a very wonderful moment for them !!

Lindsay found me on BajaNomad.  So funny to see her on it .... the response to the bikes was nothing less than absolutely amazing.the bokana beach bikers boys wanted to come with us - no way - there is NO room !!  Thanks Jose.  and how about the rules for the kids to get the bikes?????   

1. good grades (duhhhhhh)
2. good family report
3. do something for la bocana or for someone in la bocana
4 generate cash for the club (gas money to travel etc)

March 19, 2010 Friday

most of the world is happy cause it is friday and they have the weekend off

we are weekend forever .... but we are still happy for the rest of you

Jose already has all the bikes and all of mom's wonderful garage sale stuff to bring down !!  the pics of the bikes are amazing !!

we are very, very lucky that Jose has undertaken to make this happen

gracias Dios for looking after all of us so well