Friday and Saturday all Rolled into One

Front of Manix

Friday and Saturday wrap up.  We spent most of the day on Friday just hanging out at the house and doing some more exploring.  The highlight of the day was our trip downtown to a restaurant called “Manix”.  We were the only people there and it was really cool inside.  It had that old world Spanish look and feel to it.  We were seated and I picked up the menu to look at the food and was a bit thrown off by the high prices.  Now you have to remember that being here for almost two weeks has tainted us around the priced of good food.  The typical really good meal here in town is around $60-80 Pesos per person, so when I saw the prices at $100-160Pesos, I flinched big time.  I even looked at Tracy and said, “Should we leave”?  Well after a few minutes we decided to give it a try as someone we met at the LCS had recommended it.  Once again to our surprise, the food was superb.  Tracy had Chicken Marsala, I had the Pork Chops, Andrew had the battered shrimp and Zach samples everyone’s meal.  They all came with fresh rolls, butter, salad, vegetables, a sweat corn mash (everyone’s favorite, it was like dessert) and potato wedges.  The food was absolutely amazing.  So, it’s not really in our budget to go there very often, but it was a nice treat.  Another really cool thing was the sign we saw in the back of the parking lot.  There was an old sign there from what was a Chiropractic Office many years ago, called Lakeside Chiropractic.  We took it as a pretty cool omen.   

Once dinner was over, we just walked and explored the village a bit more.  It is so cool, because every turn is something new and even the areas already explored; there is always something unseen from before.  Then, home and off to bed.  The boys were still recovering from Tobolandia the day before.

Saturday, we were invited to our new friends, Scott and David’s house.  It was spectacular.   

They also had a pool, which the four kids played in for 3 hours while we all chatted. 

It was a really nice time and they even were so kind enough to serve us lunch.  We had fried chicken from “Tony’s “ and it was the best.  Wow, right this moment it has just dawned on me that I sure do talk about food a lot in this Blog.  Interesting that we move from Boulder, CO to Lake Chapala, Mexico and we are finding as many if not more incredible restaurants here as we did in Boulder.  Maybe this is the “foodiest” place in Mexico, like Boulder is for the USA?  We did a little bit in town before lunch and I just have to reiterate how amazingly kind the Mexican people are, they are always helpful, friendly, don’t’ make fun of my Spanish and VERY hard working.  After out late lunch, we headed home and took London for his walk.  We stopped by to say hello to Ben, Lindey, Sara and we ended up hanging out until really late of course.  So, now it is around 11:30pm and I am pooped, more to come later.  Happy Fathers Day Dad (I love you and can’t wait for you to come and visit) and to all the other Dads out there.