We rented a car yesterday and we travelled to Sayulita, San Francisco, and De los Marcos. Very cool places. Sayulita is definitely a surfers paradise and we would definitely consider staying there on a future trip. The roads North of PV are great. As a matter of fact the 200 highway is in better shape than many smaller highways in Alberta.
The weather here is still quite a bit cooler than I'm used to down here. I still have no color as we've been cruising around in a car, etc. Today I plan to spend some time in the sun.
We had our usual visit to Coco Tropical a few nights ago. We were the only people dining there until just before we were finished, then two other couples showed up. I couldn't believe how quiet it was. Dinner was great as usual. We had a pastrie florentine for a starter, yummy and we both had a NY steak for our entree. Doug wanted lamb, but unfortunately they didn't have any that evening.
Tomorrow night we plan to dine at El Palomar de los Gonzales. I'm really looking forward to that (as always).
The Buenaventura had Santa here on Christmas eve and again yesterday morning. He arrived on a ten speed bike (hee hee). Santa in Mexico is very, very skinny.
We had turkey dinner with all the fixings on Christmas Eve and it really was quite good. There really wasn't any feeling that it was Christmas Day yesterday, but it certainly was a great day anyways.Well, I must get down to the beach so that I can look for our friend the whale.
Cheers,
Helen
No wonder he has slimmed down ! 
