There is a weekly quiet little event nearby the marina. It's called happy hour at the Palapa which is a small restaurant a short walk from Charm across a bridge onto a small isle called the Isla. Anyway, they offer 10 peso beers, a little karaoke inside and some horseshoes outside.

Since I was on the defending champ team at horseshoes, we walked over on Friday to partake. Well, not many there to start with so Marcy stepped up to be part of the competition. However, she finagled the teams so that my partner was Don from the boat Force Nothing. Now Don is a very nice fellow and had just had his 76th birthday on Thanksgiving Day. He sat at our table so I got to know him a little. Don happens to be virtually blind. He can see a little out of the periphery of his vision, but cannot see anything right in front of him, including the horseshoe peg!! So Marcy and her partner Chuck of the boat Saber Vivir managed to squeek out an 11-9 victory.

Before the evening was over I found a new partner, Tom from Blaine WA and we won a few games, so it will be back to defend the week after next. Next week is Copper Canyon. We leave (Marcy, Linda and I) Monday morning by taking a bus from here to Los Mochis, then transferring to another bus to El Fuerte where we will stay at a hotel. Then it's onto a train for the trip up to the canyons. I'll take lots of pictures so I can create an album here.

We will be home for Christmas and then back here for New Years, so just signed up for the NY celebration at Chili's Pepper over on the beachfront in Gold Zone.