The Arch
Having stayed up dining and partying on Saturday night made for a difficult time getting out of bed on Sunday morning for your humble narrator. And I was getting sick. I picked my head up from my pillow and immediately felt the Baja rat that crawled into my throat sometime during the night. I couldn’t swallow. It felt like my throat was swollen shut. My head hurt and my body ached. I didn’t feel like doing anything other than crawling back into bed. I forced myself to shave and take a shower. I got dressed and went out onto the patio.
Elise woke up shortly after. I somehow managed to eat my leftover steak and shrimp from La Golondrina. Elise got ready and we walked through town to the marina in search of a fishing vessel. We quickly decided that instead of finding a boat and captain on our own, we would go see a time share presentation and get a discounted fishing trip instead. We then changed our course in search of a pharmacia. After visiting two pharmacies we found one that carried a throat lozenge called Graneodin B. I opted for the grape flavor. My throat immediately felt relief. I bought a bottle of Gatorade and started feeling human again.
We stopped in at a coffee shop where Elise bought a muffin for breakfast. We then walked a few blocks into town and found an actual grocery store. Our mission was to find fingernail polish for Elise. Once in the grocery store we bought bananas and ingredients for breakfast tacos. We picked up four bananas. Once at the check out line I noticed that one of the bananas was cracked open. I showed the banana to the check out girl and tried to tell her that we didn’t want it. She gave the banana to her 9-year-old daughter. The daughter ran to the back of the store. We made our purchase and left the store. The daughter came charging out of the store and said, “Senor, senor, aqui”. She brought us our banana. I don’t think we were charged for it. Elise said, “Gracias”.
We came back to the room to put our groceries away. Elise wanted to go hang out on the beach. She made a 32 oz. rum and Coke and asked me if I wanted one. I bought in. One way to kick a Cabo cold is Echinacea, Zinc, bottled water and a lot of liquor. We found our chaise lounges on the beach and worshipped the sun for a few hours and pretty much got drunk – you know, that thing you do on vacation. Elise caught some “sweet waves”, as she likes to call them (I’ll let her get away with it because she’s a Midwesterner) as I watched comfortably from my beach chair.
After the sun went down we went back up to the room to shower and change for dinner. We walked downtown and had a fantastic dinner at Nick San. Sushi with a Mexican flare is awesome. The sushi chefs get to drink while there working so that makes for some serious entertainment (and probably some sliced fingers on a wild night!). Dinner was great and I’m sure the seafood couldn’t be any fresher.
After dinner we stumbled into the Giggling Marlin. We didn’t have money for drinks (nor the inclination to drink anymore) so we didn’t stay for very long. The Giggling Marlin is a “sex sells” skit & drink too much joint that would be perfect for a bachelor or bachelorette party.
We made the long trek back though town to our condo and hit the hay. When we came home to put the groceries away this afternoon Elise called Carrie (the hostess we met the day we arrived) and told her that we were “ready” for our timeshare presentation and wanted to load up on freebies. We were to meet her at Cilantros at 8 a.m. the next morning…