Playing in El Savador!!

Since we had a great trip down, and across the bar we have really been enjoying just lounging around going to the beach and of coarse happy hour by the pool.  The second day we were here was the actual opening party for the rally, there are probably 20 or so boats here now and throughout the next 6 weeks more will come and go.  We are going to stay here the whole 6 weeks, because at the end of the rally there are some really good prizes that they are giving away and we want to win one. 

After the last month of traveling pretty fast trying to get down to El Salvador, SOMF is happy to be tied up with our sun screens up for a couple of weeks to enjoy the relaxing part of cruising.

Jerry and Erin from SV Rio Nimpkish at the pool

In the front courtyard at the hotel there are two parrots that hang out all day

You should hear them squack when Skeeter and I go by

Our table at the opening party for the rally, we met the owner of the hotel, and the managers.  They gave all the cruisers a gift bag with shirts, a hat and an El Salvador flag

Jerry's back molor has been aching and pretty loose for about a month or so now, so we decided it needed to be pulled out.  Jean on SV Mita Kuuluu new of a dentist in San Salvador which is about 2 hours, by bus, away so on Monday morning we decieded to go.  Unfortuently we did not listen to directions of the bus ruete to well and got on the wrong bus and went 2 hours in the wrong direction.  By the time we got back to the starting point we had been on buses for about 5 hours and were pretty tiered of sitting so we decieded to try again another day.  But we did enjoy all the entertainment on the bus, we had a surmen, lot and lots of people get on selling food, drinks, candy and chips throughout every stop the bus made.  The national dish here is Palpusa,which is like a flat bread then they fill them, the most common is queso (cheese).

Very colorful buses

they were all decorated inside

Monday evening we had a tour of the estuary on the hotels cateraman

Clause and Lue from SV Whiteshell

The scenerary during the tuor was great

What a group!!

Even Ben from SV Lisa Kay got to drive for awhile

We got to see a beautiful sunset

We have been haveing a great time and can't wait for the rest of the activities and to do some of our own inland traveling ourselves.  Jerry's sister and friend Dar are comming down on Saturday so we are going to try to take a trip up into the mountains for acouple of days.