look ma- I can fly

Coast of El Salvador

Chantal has a "new friend" Charlie a young pilot he offered to take her flying.
Yes, we are crazy letting teenagers fly together- Do teenagers fly as crazy as they drive?
Apparently so....according to Chantal.
Charlie is a real sweetheart we all love him. We have stayed with his familily in San Salvador and we have been invited to celebrate Christmas with them at one of thier holiday places. Genevieve and Chantal flew to Honduras with Charlies family to watch an airshow. Charlie's Dad who is a commercial airline pilot of TACA air lines ( the local equivilant to Air Canada) was flying his stunt plane in the show. Apparently he was the star attraction. Charlies family owns a flying school which seems to be doing very well. The girls enjoyed the show from as Genevieve called it " the other side of the fence"

Anchored....

OK, this is going to sound weird - We are far from pulling up the anchor.
Michel has begun to install some of the big stuff we brought down ie: the watermaker et al.
This involved tearing up the boat floorboards, beds, and all. This was no smooth exersize. I have found out the a "Cruisers wife" sole occupation is packing and repacking boat lockers. Perhaps this is why we seem to be the only ones capable of finding things on the boat.
We were getting in the way and getting on each others nerves. Michel was getting totally frustrated trying to install the watermaker. ( I was told it would take a couple of days - it took 2 weeks) We had a little family chat as I began to want to bail. The resolve was to rent a house nearby for a couple months while the boat gets worked on. Then I rented a truck to haul boat parts around. We have a really nice house with a pool and a beautiful garden. We are getting spoiled. If anyone cares to visit plane fares run around 650 bucks from Seattle and we have lots of room for company. We are landlocked our property is across from the beach.
Here's the girls enjoying the pool....are we going to get any work done?

Josee plays with fish

Beaching it

Returning to our boat after a hard day of surfing. Our boat is parked on Costa del Sol along peninsula. The marina spans both the Pacific side and the River "estaro"
where we keep our boat it is about a 10 minute walk.

Window shopping

Michel starts to enjoy shopping through the window buying eggs and Cantaloupes.
I can't believe that he is comfortable driving through the maze of vendors.
Holding the eggs here is Giovani.

voodoo section

Dave and I purchased enough fruit and veggies to last well over a week for just under 5 bucks we literally could not carry anymore. Everything is sold in units of quarters or dollars. A bag of limes 12 for a quarter 3 cantaloupes for 1 dollar.
Here is the voodoo section offering dried animals for all you ailments