Thursday Theme Song...to have a little fun...

We went one day about a month ago (a-ha-ha)
To have a little fu-un (a-ha) in Mexico
We ended up in a gambling spot a-ha-ha
Where the liquor flow-owed and the dice were hot

So here we a-are in the Tijuana Jail
Ain't got no frie-ends to go our bail
So here we'll sta-ay ‘cause we can't pa-a-a-a-ay
Just send our mai-ail to the Tijuana Jail

I was shootin' dice, rakin' in the dough
And then I hea-ard the whistle blow
We started to run when a man in blue
Said, Señor, come with me 'cause I want you

So here we a-are in the Tijuana Jail
Ain't got no frie-ends to go our bail
So here we'll sta-ay 'cause we can't pay
Just send our mail to the Tijuana Jail (shout)

Just five hundred dollars and they'll set us free
I couldn't raise a penny if ya threatened me

I know five hunderd don't sound like much
But just try to find somebody to touch

So here we are in the Tijuana Jail
Ain't got no frie-ends to go our bail
So here we'll sta-ay 'cause we can't pay
Just send our mai-ail to the Tijuana Jail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZLAMMPkcU

Historical Note: I have no intention of saying anything against Mexico, a country where my family enjoyed a lot of time over the past 40 years. However, Mexico, like France, works on the Napoleonic system of justice, or "guilty until proven innocent" — therefore, anyone who chooses to go to Mexico to get drunk, might find this song to be true. I've also been told you won't get fed much (if anything) in Mexican prisons unless your family is nearby to bring you food. I don't know if this latter point is true but I suspect it is easier to behave than it is to find out if it is true. (Our prisons aren't much fun, either, apparently.) So, don't get drunk, and you won't get into trouble.

These photos were taken just outside San Felipe, in Baja California Norte. Some of you will recognize where we were. Now we're just back from a cruise to the southern part of the Baja Peninsula, with lots of new photos for my blog.

These ones are posted for Hootin' Anni's musical meme

Thursday Theme Song

which I missed when we were away.

So, we got outta jail free, and here I am, back again.

Today marks the 300th post on my blog

Near Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Summerside, Prince Edward Island,
Canada

The moon and a frigate bird fly over
the yacht's mast, Galapagos Islands

Castillo Papa Luna, Illueca, Spain

Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

San Diego Zoo air tram, California

Moon over the Sea of Cortez,
San Felipe, Baja, Mexico

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Tidal bore, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Coast of British Columbia, Canada

Me in my Tilley hat,
Pacific coast of Costa Rica

Skyscrapers, Shanghai, China

Storm brewing over the Atlantic,
Puerto Morelos, Mexico

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Overlooking Honolulu, Hawaii

 

Posted for Skywatch Friday, hosted by Klaus, Wren, Sylvia, Sandy, and Fishing Guy

Shadows on Mexico's Baja Peninsula

I've been posting a lot of pictures taken on our trip to Hawaii in December, 2010, but I thought I'd post some today to show why it took me so long to visit the lovely islands of Hawaii. I never felt the need to go there because I went to Mexico almost every winter for 25 years.
My parents and my youngest brother first visited Mexico's beautiful Baja in 1970, when Rob was two years old. They went back the next winter and took Mom's parents, to show them why they had fallen in love with the east coast of the peninsula. The following year, Mom and Dad decided they needed a place of their own in San Felipe, then a small shrimp-fishing village on the shore of the Sea of Cortez.
They drove the 1600 miles (or 1700 or 1800, depending which route they took, because they weren't fond of freeways) each way, every six months, until they just couldn't do it any more.
Therefore, San Felipe was the holiday destination of choice for me for many, many years. We watched it grow from a sleepy fishing village into a tourist town, but it never quite lost its appeal.
These photos were taken after Mom and Dad decided to stay in Canada year-round. I persuaded my husband to take me down so I could show him why I loved it so much.

I took this picture of Dick photographing some caballeros on the beach.
This is the Pacific side of the Baja Peninsula, south of Tijuana, not far from Ensenada.

These two pictures were taken at Playa del Sol, 5 miles north of San Felipe on the Sea of Cortez. When San Felipe became too busy for my parents, they moved here, out of town. The pointed shadow that almost reaches the fence is the roof of the place Dad had built - teaching the locals the secrets of wood-frame construction, and doing much of the work himself, in the process.

                                                                                                                                          Kay Davies, photos

There aren't many shadows in this last photo. There's not much shade in the middle of the day on the road they call "La Rumorosa" - just rock, rock, and more rock. It's a good road now, though I heard wild tales from my parents and their friends about the way it was 40 years ago.

Posted for Shadow Shot Sunday, hosted every weekend by Tracy at Hey Harriet.

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Skywatch Friday - nighttime in California, Mexico and Spain

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC 2006

SAN FELIPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE, MEXICO
Moon reflecting on the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California)

CHRISTMAS EVE IN MADRID, SPAIN

CHRISTMAS SEASON, BARCELONA, SPAIN

Photos by Richard Schear and Kay Davies

Posted for Skywatch Friday meme,

for more pictures of skies around the world, please click

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Yellow is for more than flowers, but...

A lonely columbine finds a shaft of sunlight under a canopy of weeds and Nanking cherries in our back-to-nature back yard.

A huge "flower arrangement" on a cruise ship buffet table. I recognized cherry tomatoes, radishes, strawberries, etc., but not the big yellow flowers.

I ordered "fish soup" at Rosita's in San Felipe and got this healthy stew containing so many large pieces of fish I had to share some with a hungry kitty (unseen here) outside the window. Don't try this in a restaurant at home.

Miami Heat basketball team 2007. Don't ask me who they played. Don't ask me who won. I was there for rest and relaxation.

I couldn't resist two flower pictures for Mellow Yellow Monday: one of a flower that grew despite my neglect and my lack of a green thumb; and another of flowers I couldn't make if I spent the rest of my life trying. The huge yellow "floral arrangement" was created by the talented kitchen staff on the Carnival Imagination. I have been attempting ever since our cruise in 2005 to figure out what kind of vegetable (couldn't be fruit?) they used to concoct these flowers. Surely it can't be rutabaga? Of course not.

I may never know.

The third picture is of the unfittie, shown here at Rosita's, one of my family's favorite restaurants in the Baja shrimp-fishing village of San Felipe. It was a shrimp-fishing village when my parents and youngest brother started spending winters there in the early 1970s, anyway. Quiet little San Felipe is now a tourist town, with big chain hotels, condos, real estate developments, and golf courses of all things, there in the dry Mexican desert.

Makes me shake my head.

The final picture was taken at a Miami Heat game in 2007. We were on our way to Costa Rica for a tour with Wild Planet Adventures. However, I refused to fly to Miami, change planes, and fly to San Jose, Costa Rica all in one long day.

So we stopped in Miami for two nights. The first night I just rested, but on the second evening I felt up to going to a basketball game with Dick. Therefore, when we left on the second leg of our trip the next day, I wasn't exhausted, sore, grumpy and making my husband's life a misery.

This is one of my most useful (I think) tips for unfitties who travel: don't try to do it all in one day.

Photos by Richard Schear and Kay Davies.

See yellow pictures by people more mellow than the unfittie at http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.com/

Playa del Sol, San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico