Chuuk Kay Restaurante has grown before my eyes in its 8 or 9 months. It is far beyond its wooden decks with palapa roofs and onto the Playa Norte type of sand that was hauled in. More chairs, more umbrellas, a couple more palapa "private" rooms. It is definately a venue with enough staff to wait on the crews of the yachts that pull up. On weekends, the Band Without a Name plays from 3-5 or 6. So those of us who can't wait up for them to play at Fayne's at 1o:30pm, get to hear them while we are still awake. And the food! Well, you'll just have to try it. And the bathrooms? Your wish is their command. Toilets and faucets do all the thinking for you. Hey, that is a big deal here!
Punta and I visited our friends at Mar y Sol for a chili dog party with bubble gum music. We had joy, we had fun, we had moments in the sun. And little stud muffin Buddy liked Punta a lot. But he had to take a nap while his mommie Eva snorkeled.
So we focused on the Peg's french frying and Les's hot dog grilling. Sandee make the chili for the hot dogs.
Afterward, lots of naps happened. Punta frolicked in the sand bars and swimming holes and went far out alongside my raft as if we were heading for Cancun.
It was magic.
A sometime reward for a good, hard day in Cancun is a Big Mac to go from the Ultramar dock in Puerto Juarez. Blasphemy, you say. Ha!
On the way to the market this morning, we saw the Aquacan Residuales/Agua Negra trucks. They are pumping what you flushed, provided it gets to the street. If you flush toilet paper on the island, their job becomes highly unpleasant and clogs their equipment. Know, too, they make stops pretty close to each other. What I'm saying, if you flush, they could flush you out! Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
It wasn't quite legal, but it wasn't really wrong. A kid came to the side door while Sergio was fixing the pipe to the water storage tank with conch in a plastic bag. He had gotten it when the north wind washed it up on shore. 'The right thing to do is throw it back and pay tax on it through a fisherman's co-op," Carmen said. I didn't know this at the time. It was cleaned pretty well. And only 60 pesos.
He put the conch with onion, lime and salt first. Some black pepper.
So he added the other ingredients. Toss before serving.
Restaurant price: 140 pesos per person. Home price, 70 pesos for three. (Final version is the first picture.)
And this week was my turn. My lawyer did all the work and I only set foot inside twice to sign papers. Carlos Telliz, my sainted cab driver, stayed busy outside.
And then after each visit, Carlos took me to see my surgeon. Yesterday, he waited outside the office as Dr. Jose Manuel Mendoza cut my belly button, pushed serous fluid, uninfected, out of my abdomen, and removed tissue that had died due to poor circulation in the middle and installed a drainage tube. Oh, I hope you weren't having breakfast!
February 2nd marks the mid-way point between the winter solstice and spring equinox! Yay! And it's also thought of as the day we predict how much longer winter will last, which is why so much attention is paid to how groundhogs act today, especially in " you know where" Pennsylvania.
