Feliz Navidad próspero año y felicidad
With Christmas and Jacintha’s birthday falling on consecutive days, Jacintha has been very excited. On Christmas Eve, after our night swim, hot tub and shower, we watched The Polar Express and ate popcorn. Jacintha put out milk and cookies for Santa and could hardly keep her eyes open for the whole movie. She went to bed without a fuss as she knew St Nick would be coming down the hatch at midnight!
On Christmas morning, the stocking was full of presents and there were some under the tree as well! Santa must have a real good GPS as he found us here in Mazatlan. After opening the presents, I started cooking Christmas dinner, whilst Jim called his parents in Florida, then took Jacintha to the beach where she saw some girls she met at the pool the day before and was soon building a large sand castle. Roy from SV Mabrouka joined us for Christmas dinner and he brought over the mashed potatoes. We had roast chicken with gravy, greek salad, peach crumble and Roy’s mashed spuds. After that it was over to the pool for some relaxing (grown ups) and playing (Jacintha). What a pleasant Mexican Christmas day.
Birthday–Jacintha wanted a party and piñata for her birthday and we found the piñata in La Paz. It’s been hanging in our port-side salon (not so inconspicuously!) for the past 300 miles. Our original plan was to be in Puerto Vallarta for Christmas to meet up with other kid boats, but we were delayed leaving La Paz and decided to spend a week in Mazatlan. Jacintha decided to wait until we meet up with some of her friends to have her birthday party. She was excited to be in a “resort” with pool and beach, I think it reminds her of our vacations in Hawaii. The day began with a surprise birthday announcement on the morning radio net (thanks Scott from SV Velvet Sky). Then Jacintha spent half the day at the beach with Hannah from SV Ohana and Bucket from SV Velvet Sky where they enjoyed eating Karen’s homemade birthday cake on the beach. For the second half of the day we all went to the pool where the kids played in the water and the adults relaxed.
