Yelapa was heaven!

Green Parrots on the huge Green Bamboo at the Oasis in Yelapa

I waited two days before I could post this. So I'm at Pascal's at Marina Bay for mid-day brunch and some wifi catch-up. Our trip from Vallarta was smooth and uneventful. Just the way we like it. We're joining Chuck, Steve, Susan and Mira for dinner at Italian Colors and hoping Mike and Jenny can join us. Still don't know if Mike is playing tonight. It's Susan and Steve's anniversary today, so hope we can all be together. Had a good check-in talk with Kathy this morning. Sounds like Larkin is a joy for Mary to have living with her while he's back at San Jose State. I can only imagine what a joy that must be.

Here's the entry I started when the wifi wasn't working at #5 in Yelapa when I wanted to say goodbye and announce that we were about to leave:

Here it is already. Monday, the 10th. Art says it's the first day of the rest of your life. Actually, it's the day before we leave beautiful, magical Yelapa. For some reason, we seemed to think Wednesday was  our day of departure, so we're in a momentary state of shock and surprise. But that won't last long. We've had a gorgeous stay here as well as wonderful time in Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta and El Tuito before this, so we truly can't complain. And since we feel we're returning from one paradise to another………. So be it.

Yesterday we met my Santa Fe friend, Lynn at the top of the trail to the cascade in the village. We waited long, but had a delicious brunch with her while listening to the sounds of the waterfall landing on all the facets of rock behind the falls. Saw a few birds on the way home in the village. Particularly some hawks and vultures of interest. This morning the bird book lying on the breakfast table seemed to attract all sorts of people. One man from Victoria BC sent his mother to our table because she has a growing interest in birds. We had a delightful visit with her and Art did his best to convince her to join  a serious bird group when she returns to Canada.

The wifi here has chosen today to be missing for the first time in our stay. Of course I came back to our porch and set up the computer just outside the door on a little night stand so that I could do a blog entry and watch for two friends as they para-sailed down. Sighting the flyers worked out, but blog entry will have to wait 'til who knows when. And just as I wrote that, one of the flyers arrived at our door front.  You know me, always feeling like esp is everywhere or just around the corner.

The bottom line is that birding here in Yelapa has been lovely. I took a very long swim in the pool late this afternoon, met people who were lovely. We had dinner and conversations with Luke, other regulars and some new friends. That also was lovely. Need i say more. I hate to leave but leave we must and it will be great to see  our own coast and all that it means to us in a very short while. 

The wifi icon says it's on but the dialogue box says it's not. Let's hope I can publish this after we get through the system at the Vallarta airport. In the meantime it will be preserved on my desktop in Text  Edit. Time will tell. —  JW