We headed to the airport early on Saturday morning, witnessing a beautiful sunrise over the airport and the city of Chicago.
Several hours later we were in a small taxi weaving in and out of the Mexican traffic on the hot streets of a town called Puerto Vallarta which is nestled on the coast of the pacific ocean. Boy was it nice to be in a warm place for a change!!!!!
The taxi dropped us off at the villa with all its brilliant views over the town and ocean. We headed down to the town and the beach enjoying all the sights as well as some Mexican sweetcorn mixed with poblano peppers - a true delicacy to try at home.
Even nicer are the mangos from this region of Mexico (Lindsey loves them dearly!) and on one trip to a surfing beach on the bumpiest bus ever, we came across possibly the best thing - a truck load of them!
We even saw this chap again (the so-called Mango Man) the next day at a different beach further down the coast and he greeted us like long lost friends before we bought another dozen of freshly picked mangos to keep up our vitamin C intake, at least for a year. Coincidently, I did go surfing and although it was a little rocky near the beach, the waves were pretty good and Lindsey even got a rare picture of me in action. Hard to believe I know.
After that I was feeling lucky and so I treated myself to a whole red snapper on the way back! It was very nice indeed.
On the trip, we played pool a few times, well, this wasn't just enjoyment as I needed to avenge an earlier defeat, and we found some pool halls to play even when we were the only tourists in sight!
There was one last thing we needed to do and that was tequila tasting which was way more sophisticated than I thought and it was actually quite nice!
We had one last brunch in town on a balcony overlooking the ocean before flying back to the Windy City.
It was a great trip and such good fun!
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