Photos of Camille, Daniel (and family and friends)

My obsession with good food is not limited to the US.  Here are images of food and food-related stuff in Mexico.

We spent five days with Molly’s dad Ron and his partner Carolyne in Puerto Vallarta.

We charted a boat for a half day ride in Puerto Vallarta.  We saw some grey whales, caught a few fish and snorkeled.  We took our fish back to Victor’s to have them grilled for our dinner.

We won a five night stay at the Westin in Puerto Vallarta and went in mid-December.  Here are some pictures from our stay there.

We took a few extra days to climb up into the mountains to San Sebastian del Oeste and Mascota.  We will not regret getting off the beaten path to see an unspoiled town in the mountains on the night of the Virgen de Guadalupe.  It was absolutely wonderful.

We won a trip to Mexico.  We landed at the celebrations for the Virgen de Guadalupe were ramping up.

Molly wanted to escape Seattle for Thanksgiving.  She chose to take us to Anchorage Cottages (misnamed as this is a treacherous coast with no anchorages nearby) in Long Beach, WA.

We had a good time.  We explored the beach.  Spirit leaped, bounded, and sprinted all over.  Daniel discovered fire making (in the fireplace), I cooked, Camille sewed with her new machine, and Molly did what pleased her most.

Camille loves to celebrate her birthday.  As part of her birthday, she wanted to be taken to a  conveyor belt sushi (kaiten) type of place for lunch.  This strikes us as odd, as she rarely eats fish and certainly would not deign to eat it raw.  I think she is caught up in a friend’s recommendation and the attraction of the conveyor belt.  We’re game, so off we go.

As one might expect (knowing Camille), she eschews all the fish and tucks into cucumber rolls, a sweet rice wrapped in bean curd, egg rolls, and custard (the latter two seem genuinely un-Japanese, but who am I to know?).  But, she loved it.  I think the conveyor belt was the draw.  Daniel tries shrimp and eats the sweets.  Molly and I have sushi, of course.

Daniel gave Camille a present in a can to throw her off the scent.  She had asked him for a duct tape wallet (his specialty these days).

After sushi, we went to Pike Place Market to shop for dinner and explore.

Calvin and the witch

Camille is a variant on a witch this year with a homemade orange and black cape.  Daniel is Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes.