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| El Palapa Mirador, owned by Dona Maria for the last 16 years |
My Mexican sister has decided to take most of the year off
and isn't operating her restaurant this year. Since I had more time on my hands
I was hanging out at Los Chivos a lot, swimming and or paddling. I still don't
like swimming in the waves which makes Los Chivos the perfect spot. In hanging
out there I ended up getting a new job. I am the new waitress/dishwasher/ and
the "go get me this" girl at the Palapa EL Mirador ( The look out palapa) named so because we
have a beautiful view of the Island across the water with the mountains in the
background.
We have a bottom deck where you can sit at sea level or a top deck
where you have the view, this is a perfect work out for me, up and down the
stairs all day long, I do feel it at night when I go to bed. Every evening
after cleanup I jump in the water for a quick dip, so refreshing.
My Mexican brother is there as well every day, he has been
hired to rebuild her palapa, due to all the storms this has to be done every
few years. He and his crew of banditos (my name for them) are there every day
as well, entertaining us....or me anyway.
If you ever get a chance to watch a
Mexican construction crew at work do so, It is entertaining and so very
interesting. I wish I could set up a web cam up because pictures just don't do
it any justice.
There is a whole lot of
shanigans that go on but it never even slows down the work, these guys work
like no other. They have been working
there for 2 weeks and I will miss them when they are gone. They chatter away
all day, they whoo whoo and sing, play jokes on each other and laugh at each
other every chance they get, they have little accidents and mishaps and they
get side tracked with helping others. They will stop and go to the cantina to
get more beer for us, they will give people rides to the ferry, they will help
chop coconuts when we get busy, they will help unload the coke truck, one
customer lost her cell phone yesterday, the whole crew stopped and searched in
the sand for it and then one guy raced to the ferry with his quad only to find
that they had already crossed so he crossed over as well and met up with her on
the other side. ...... work did get interrupted a bit that time.
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| The bottom deck at hightide |
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| You can't beat this view from your table |
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| If you want to be even closer the new waitress will put a table down below for you and she will run back and forth....she needs the exercise. |
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| Very classy bathrooms, complete with real doors |
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| Sometimes the sunset starts out like this |
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| When the water turns a rose color the waitress will usually take a swim |
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| Sometimes when it's slow the waitress will hang up her dress and go for a swim |
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| Then of course she has to lay in a hammock to dry off for awhile |
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| Sometimes the sunset is astounding |
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| And sometimes the sky is astounding |
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| I use the word astounding so much here in Mexico. |
