Today is the day after the “Big Storm of 2013”.   Most of you see those headlines on ABC, NBC or Fox after nearly every storm that comes through in the winter.   We don’t get ABC…so we thought we would create our own headlines.   We have had rain here in Barra for the last couple of days and yesterday we had 15 minutes of near white-out conditions where we couldn’t see 100 feet from the boat because of the rain.   Our estimate was about 6″ of rain for the day and perhaps half of that came in 15 minutes.   Of course we couldn’t just have rain, so we added 34 knots of wind to the mix just to make it exciting.

Our spirits were not dampened by the weather and we still had friends over for dinner.   When they arrived it was during one of the deluges  that had been happening all day so they were soaked pretty good.   The boat was dry and everyone had brought dry clothes and after changing we had a great time.   Today broke nice and bright, the French Baker appeared at the boat as he usually does each day around 9 AM and the day looks perfect for the beach, a walk and perhaps a cerveza of two.

We have been using the facilities here at the Sands Hotel for Internet.   Beer is $1.50 each, the accommodations are nice, and the electrical is average for Mexico.

We are working on getting our Visa’s extended still.   Each day we march over to the “agents” office get a bit closer to success.   We are looking forward to Monday when customs actually opens and hopefully 200 pesos will solve our issues.

No new updates at this time but all is going well.