Llueve mucho--It rains a lot!

On Wednesday night, we went to the Nuevo Pasoda restaurant. It is in a nice little hotel and on the lake; we had been there for brunch with Kate & Jack with others in February. It is very nice and again the food was very good. However, it was what happened after that made the night rather memorable. We had walked down (about 12-15 minute walk) and during dinner it began to rain, really pour down. When we came out, the street in front of the hotel going down to the lake was a river, kind of like a rapids going over the cobblestones. We talked about getting a cab, but there was a lineup of other patrons waiting for cabs. Barb insisted that we should walk; although the rest of us were dubious, she set out and we all followed. Actually, getting across that street was the most challenging (about 6 inches of fast rushing water). Although we had to wade through a couple of the other streets going down to the lake, none were more than an inch or two. Needless to say we were all pretty soaked in fairly short order. However, before we got home, the rain had tapered to a light drizzle. The temperature was quite warm so that it was a bit of a lark really. While we have high opinions of ourselves, none of us is made of sugar so we didn’t melt (one of my mother’s favourite sayings).

Today, it was raining quite heavily all morning, but about noon, it had virtually stopped. We decided to drive to Chapala; actually, the sun did come out for a short period while we were walking around in Chapala. Although Barb & I had been there several times to go to the large supermarket, we had never explored the waterfront. Chapala has long been a tourist centre with an extensive developed waterfront area. However, they are doing a good deal of construction work to improve it even more. We went in to a hotel restaurant for lunch. We had Bijou, but dogs are allowed on the front porch part of the restaurant. While there, 2 guitar players/singers asked if we wanted them to play for us. Today is Angie’s birthday so Matt had them play for her birthday. For 25 pesos, they gave a song, and then sang ‘Happy Birthday.” Tonight for Angie’s birthday, we are going to Tango, another restaurant introduced to us by Kate & Jack. However, we have already decided that we will take the car. It is not raining at the moment (5 p.m.). but it is overcast and could easily start again. We needn’t go ‘singing in the rain’ for 2 nights in a row. They really mean it when they call it the ‘rainy season’.