Still Hanging out in La Paz!

Well Jerry and I are still enjoying ourselves in La Paz. Jerry has finished hooking up the two solar panels...yeah we got more power. Thanksgiving was great fun, Jerry, I, Kate and Dan got a ride from Dario on SV Ballena to Marina Palmera where the feast was, on the way there I noticed that we forgot to pack the utensils, plates, and wine glasses, but at least we remembered the wine.  Luckily there was a little store in the marina that sold plastic plates and forks, and there were some plastic cups supplied.  The amount of food was amazing, there was tons of different salads, some different potatoes, stuffing, green been and other veggie casseroles, some cranberry sauce and twenty turkeys were prepared along with a gallon of dressing.  The only thing we did not see was any kind of yams or sweet potatoes, and with Mexico having an abundance of sweet potatoes it was surprising.  And the dessert, there was every kind of dessert you could think of, some that we tried were a black berry jello that had almonds inside, and a rum black forest cake that was to die for, and of coarse there were pumpkin pie, pumpkin spiced bread and all sorts of pumpkin.  The afternoon was full of thanksgiving cheer.

200 people at the Thanksgiving feast

We had dinner at SV Akupara one night, Kate made her mom's sausage, tortellini and veggie soup, along with some awesome bread that was fresh that day at a local panareia and I made my balsamic salad.  We had a great night, they have a nice center cockpit catch. 

On Sunday, Jerry was not feeling well, but I want with Kate and Dan  to an Art festival up at Marina Palmera and then to a Paella festival.  We rode our bikes up to the art festival which was about 2.8 miles away, it was free to enter and there was a beer and soda booth and a couple of different food booths, but since we were going to the Paella festival after, we just walked around and looked at all the booths of art, jewelry and clothing.  They also had a band that was playing (I forgot the name) with an harmonica player that was very very good.

The band at the art show

After we rode our bikes back toward town and stopped at the Paella festival.  It was 200 pesos to enter, and once in there were 14 or so different restaurants with their best paella.  The festival stated at 2pm and we didn't get there till about 4, so some of the booths were running out, and of coarse it was not as hot as it was at the beginning.  But there were still many good paella dishes, our favorite was a local cooking school, their rice was so flavorful with different spices.  There was a drawing during the event, Dan and Kate won a bottle of win a bottle of wine, but not me...boohoo.  The event was fun, they had an award ceremony for the best paella dishes along with a large mariachi band. 

My favorite Paella dish



The Mariachi Band