Another Day in Paradise

 Breakfast in our hotel was my favorite time of the day.  Who doesn't like to get up in the morning, get ready and then head to an amazing breakfast buffet with fruit, waffles, pancakes, omelets, pastries, Mexican breakfast cuisine and amazing mixed fruit juices?  I especially loved the fruits, especially the mango.  I never knew what a real mango was supposed to taste like.  Back in Georgia I am used to a dry, hard crunchy type of mango.  I now I know that mangoes are supposed to be a yummy golden color and oh, so juicy!

 Our servers each and every morning were so happy and pleasant.  Stephen spoke to them every morning in Spanish and made instant friends.  They treated us so kindly and were very accommodating and helpful.

Just walking around the resort grounds enjoying the beauty

 This photo is taken from a little walkway that juts out into the ocean along the beachfront.  It had an amazing view of Puerto Vallarta from all angles.

 We headed into town on our last night to take a trip on the famous boardwalk.  We took a ride in a taxi, a Nissan Sentra with over 420,000 miles on it.  These little yellow taxis were everywhere and the drivers were so kind.

 The view as we walked along the boardwalk

This man considered himself a "Stone Artist".  He would balance all of these rocks to create rock statues.  They just sat there balancing and not tipping over....crazy!  He even demonstrated how he did it while we watched.  Of course, he expected you to leave a tip for his hard work which we were happy to do.

There were street performers all over the place doing little acts for payment of tips and a few dollars.  We stopped at this outside theater to watch this clown for a moment.  We were the only Americans in sight and he was speaking in Spanish.  All of a sudden he noticed us standing there and looked at us.  In a very slow, methodical and mocking voice he said, "Hi!  How are you?"  Everyone looked at us and I instantly knew we were going to be part of his act as he mocked the Americans.  Stephen rattled off something in his flawless Spanish and the entire audience just busted up laughing!  Stephen turned the joke back on the clown and he was a little flustered.  They went back and forth in Spanish and the people were just laughing hysterically.  Another great moment of Stephen using his awesome language skills!  Ha!

These performers climbed up this huge pole in the sand and took their time wrapping long rope around the top of the pole.  After four men were at the top and the ropes were ready they hung upside down with one foot attached to the top square piece.  They twirled around and around until the square piece reached the bottom of the pole and they could touch the ground.  Kind of weird, but they will do anything for TIPS!

 Lots of sand art dotted the beaches with a nice little boxes to place your tips of appreciation in.

 A really creep statue in front of one of the restaurants/bars

Back to the hotel at night....we were so hungry and didn't eat dinner because we were too afraid to try something from the restaurants on the boardwalk.  We had come to the end of our trip without getting sick and we didn't want to risk it. 

We purchased some cereal and milk in the hotel lobby and decided it would be safe to just have a cereal party in our room.  It was tasty but even though the boxes of cereal looked just like the ones we have at home....they were definitely not the same.  Oh well....at least we didn't get sick!