Sunday, 12 Feb, Loreto

It was so noisy when we went to bed last night that we both wore ear plugs.  A band was playing very loud Mexican music and it sounded like it was right across the street.  I was amazed that the ear plugs actually took all the noise away.
Rob got up first and actually took Bella out.  I slept in.  I finally did get up and we sat outside for a little bit having our coffee.
There is a farmers market in town and everyone wanted to go.  I did not want to drive the truck.  It was determined that it was only about 3 miles or so away so Rob and I decided to ride our bikes.  
Lori and John took off first.  Then Rob and I rode off on our bikes with Bella in the basket.
We rode into town and through the Centro which is a pretty walking only square.

The Farmer's market was kind of a bust.  It was more like a flea market.  They did; however, have some good produce which we took advantage of and bought some salad and grilling veggies. They had meat, but it was all laid out, un wrapped, with flies all over it.  GAG!

So we all left and decided we would go down by the water and have brunch.

We rode down to the Malecon which is like a sidewalk or walkway along the water.  It was pretty down there.

After lunch we walked around for a bit.  It is an interesting town.

 This was originally a cell tower in the shape of a palm tree, but it was damaged in the hurricane and rather than try to camouflage it again they just added the cells back

These are bones, probably whale, that a couple archeologists are working on outside a research center.

On the way back to camp Rob wanted to go find this running trail we had been told about so we kept going on past and went down to the shoreline.

We rode out and through what looked like an abandoned development.  They had all the curbing in for the malecon, a divided road with planters in the middle and then island they had the roads, turnabouts and sidewalks all in. We continued past that on a dirt road and along the end of the runway of the Loreto Airport.  We came upon a family, Man, woman and little boy standing up in the back of their pickup truck.  They were waiting for an approaching airplane.  It turned out to be an Alaska Airline and it flew right over the top of us as it landed on the runway behind us

It was pretty cool.  The pictures really do not do justice as to how close overhead it was.

We sat around visiting together (and with all the dogs). Before going back into town for dinner.

This nice man was making Cesar salad for us at our table.  It was yummy!

I told you that our kitchen slide is stuck and we cannot get it to go out.  I cannot get to half the pantry, mixing bowls, silverware, pots, or pans.  So, we cannot do much in the way of cooking until we get it fixed.  Too bad, so sad, we have to go out.