Wow, we have been here for 9 weeks!
Sunday we went to the Sunday Market again, we find it interesting to just walk leisurely about and look at all the items for sale and people watch.
Lots of jewellery to choose from.
I think this is the same dog I photographed the last time we were there. Just laying about getting sunshine and R&R and not the least bit worried about people walking about.
If the vendors don't have a table they just spread a ground cover and lay everything out on that.
We had a light brunch at the Secret Garden after an earlier snack at one of the food vendors. This outing makes for a relaxing Sunday morning and early afternoon. I have been posting on a couple of the tourist facebook pages for Puerto Morelos in hopes of getting more people from the port side to come and take part in a great shopping experience and to taste inexpensive Mexican food from the market's food vendors.
A grocery shopping trip to Chedraui took us by "Micheladas del Semaforo" on the highway
where we like to drop in for a nice cold draft occasionally. We met fellow Canadians there from Kettle Point, Ontario on this stop.
This is the sound of birds as they are eating from a certain type of tree. These birds do this every day for about 2 weeks at dawn and dusk. We are certainly happy we don't have these trees nor this loud chatter near our house.
Monday night we had a rain fall, the following morning these doves were taking full advantage of the puddle for a bath.
We are having a party!! Yes, a block party is being held on Saturday December 14th. The purpose of the party is hold a Mexican celebration of the Posada, everyone is invited and asked to bring a dish of food to share. It is going to be so much fun!!
La Posada means "the Inn" and the celebration is in recognition of Mary and Joseph coming into Bethleham looking for a place to stay to give birth to their baby.
The party starts with a door, (in our case it will be a curtain hung across the street), on one side of the door there is a group representing Mary and Joseph and on the other side of the door a group representing the Inn Keepers. A song is sung (in Spanish of course) with the Mary and Joseph group asking for a place to stay and then the Inn Keepers come back with no room. At the end of the song they are told there is room in a stable and at that point the door is opened, everyone enters and the party begins!
The Municipality has agreed to close off our street from 5:30 pm until 9:00pm. Guests are providing potluck traditional foods and non traditional foods for the Posada, lighting, music, 2 bouncy castles for the children, pinatas for children and one for the adults. This is certainly going to be a great evening, the neighbours are really looking forward to it.
We have offered to help our neighbour Claudia prepare and set up for the party. After going door to door to invite the guests we contacted Emilio our favourite taxi driver to take us to Cancun to purchase items needed for the party. Exciting or what?
The most interesting of the places we shopped at that day was Market 23 which is close to the ADO bus terminal. If you have gone to Cancun and not gone there you have missed out on a great Mexican experience. What an interesting place, they have anything and everything for sale. Ann M - we should go here when you visit this year.
We were at this market to shop for items we needed for the Alters we did at the beginning of November in celebration of Day of the Dead. The shops have all transformed from Day of the Dead items to those for the Posada, Christmas and Three Kings Day celebrations along with others I have not yet had the opportunity to experience yet.
Pinatas galore! Everywhere you look there are pinatas of every colour and description you can imagine.
The entire market is so colourful and it was very busy, I was fortunate to find a spot with few people to get this photo.
Before returning to Puerto Morelos we treated ourselves to lunch at La Parrilla.
The Hurricane season is officially over and we are soon to step into Caribbean winter, not to worry though because winter here has it beauty.
Road maintenance is a year round job around the world with Puerto Morelos being no exception. We found these workers repairing Zetina Gazca this week. There was evidence of them having had worked on other streets also.
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Puerto Morelos merchants are displaying their Christmas decorations for the season's shoppers. Do you need a plastic table cover?
Lights and artificial trees are adding bling to the sidewalks.
Saturday was FREE Spay and Neuter Day for the cats and dogs of the community.
Claudia volunteers in Puerto Morelos and one of her many charities is this clinic. Being a people person she likes to take the registrations, she registered over 170 pets at this one day clinic. It is such a much needed service that volunteers provide to the community. The program as I mentioned is a community program, so it is open to the pets of residents and visitors along with the many animals wondering the streets seemingly without owners. These animals are trapped and brought into the clinic entered into the program if they have not already been spayed or neutered.
People waiting for their pets appointment while others wait and aid in the final recovery phase of their pet's process.
Surgical tools are washed and sterilized for the next patients.
This concludes another week in Paradise, it has been a memorable one, the sun has been hot and the pool warm, the food delicious and the beer cold, but we lost a good friend, Manuel May.
The community of Puerto Morelos has lost another icon, this week, Manuel May passed away.
Manuel, Miss Ali and their children operated the restaurant called Ole’ on Calle Chaca just before you reach the highway. Manuel was always a smiling face with a big wave as we passed by on our shopping trips to Chedraui, on our return we would stop in and be greeted with a smile, a hug and hand shake. He was a true friend and helped us so much with translation and the learning curves that are a bit challenging to new comers to the community. We, as others who knew him, are deeply sadden by his unexpected passing. We pray that his loved ones are given the strength to pass through this difficult journey with God’s help and that Manuel rests in peace.
Manuel, Miss Ali and their children operated the restaurant called Ole’ on Calle Chaca just before you reach the highway. Manuel was always a smiling face with a big wave as we passed by on our shopping trips to Chedraui, on our return we would stop in and be greeted with a smile, a hug and hand shake. He was a true friend and helped us so much with translation and the learning curves that are a bit challenging to new comers to the community. We, as others who knew him, are deeply sadden by his unexpected passing. We pray that his loved ones are given the strength to pass through this difficult journey with God’s help and that Manuel rests in peace.
In closing we ask that each of you to stay safe, keep warm and let that smile shine!
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