Every Day Life in Mazatlan

[asirimarco]

Have done a few updates to the blog just about how we spend our days here in Mazatlan. Nothing out of the ordinary but different from home.
More on the vendors and the traffic here and some sunet pictures of course.l
We are staying away from all the Carnaval commotion - the north side of town is still quiet and tranquill.
Got some cute yarn dolls - and a flying glass pig the other day too.
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[Irmi]

Carol, I really enjoy traveling with you here on the board. I've told my hubby so much about you & the driver and your travels, as he spent two years in Mexico after graduating from school, over 40 years ago. What I would give to do what you are doing!

[snowball]

So nice loved the pig and I don't even collect them but I could have taken him home as well
loved the pictures
sheila

[JanetA]

you are a brave couple of folks w/ all i hear about Mazatlan and all the cartel crapola that's spose to be going on down there! Glad you are ok! and having fun too! we are just not that brave! and we live in Tx.

keep posting and by golly where are the pictures? did i miss them somewhere?

[Dawn309]

JanetA, click on Carol's link to her blog and you will see the pictures.

Carol, when I saw the picture of the fabric store, I was really envious. Not that I need to get any fabric. I need to use up what I did end up bringing with me. I love your pictures and really appreciate you taking us along.

[asirimarco]

the fabric stores here are incredible - and the prices are 1/4 of the prices in the states. I've bought a lot of fabric here for quilts -
They have such pretty stuff.
Janet - there is absolutely no problem with "the cartels" here in Mazatlan. It is very safe here - safer than Indianapolis, IN. for sure.

[JanetA]

Hey, ya'll! Carol,, i still marvel @ your being down in mexico,, and envy you too. I just hope things are where we can get down there when (and if) we ever get to get our rig and head out.

I just have to tell ya'll,,, i'm a bit worried about mama. I also have a huge guilt hanging around me,, for obvious reasons,, those selfish ones of me wanting to get out and have a life on the road b4 im too old... me AND my dear NEW husband of 1 yr,, Roy. what a dear he has been helping w/ mama. ANyway,, about mama... she came out of her bathroom last night like she always does, passing thru the den on her way to her bedroom saying good night,, but this time she was chastising me about messing w/ her toothbrush,,, throwing it away and getting out a new one. WELL! i gotta tell you this hit me like a ton of bricks,, cuz,,, as yo might guess,, i hadn't touched her toothbrushes,,, etc.... She swore up and down that i'd thrown her old one away,, (the one she liked!) and put out a new one and i was to NEVER do that again! I sort of lost it and told her she was the one that had to have done that as i'd never do such a thing! i pretty much leave her br to her except every once in a while i go in there and clean it... but anyway,, just an indicator to me that she's getting more forgetful. I guess im just incredulous as to her losing her mind,, cuz ,, we know our mamas are spose to be the same forever,, right???????... oh well,,

I just pray God takes her before she gets so bad that we have to make other arrangements. It nearly killed me to have to put daddy in the nursing home,,,2 1/2 yrs ago,, and he hadn't lost his mind,, only his legs and continence. The dr told me that i could NOT take care of them both... so he went. I know mama missed him,,,cuz I sure do! But he is jollly and the NH isnt far... we go as often as we can....i go more often cuz mama is sorta hard to get to go,, gotta get all duded up etc...b4 she will go out in public and getting dressed is getting more difficult by the month. CHurch which was a regular thing is not a once in a great while thing, due to the trouble it takes her to get bathed, dressed,, etc...

I know I could get home health and all that jazz,, but it's not me that doesn't want it,,, i bow to her desires. Sigh...

thanks, girls,, for letting me vent. I just thank all of you for posting all your wonderful adventures,, be they big or small,,

Oh,, we did sneak out the other day while she was napping,, (she takes long naps,, like 4 hrs etc) and dashed down to south Llano river state park,, and looked at the lovely river and saw the wild turkeys and let the dogs run a bit and grabbed a bite at the mexican restaurant in Menard, tx. on the way. Junction looked livlier than ever, even in this off time of the year. There were several beautiful rvs in the campground,, as we drove thru it,,, I wanted Roy to see how the '"other half" lives.... w/ him protesting all the time that we didnt pay the day fee. I assured him thatthey didnt charge for a 'drive thru'. ha.. and if anyone stopped us.. which no one did,, we would just explain that we were looking the place over for future plans,,,,,, etc...

again.. thanks for you all! love you all!

Janet p.s. I'd post pics if it weren't so much trouble!

[Sandersmr]

Janet - that issue with the toothbrush definitely sounds like a sign of Alzheimer's. They get paranoid and think people are out to get them. My grandmother hid things because "they" stole things from her. Then she couldn't find what she had hidden, so it had been "stolen" as well.