This is our first season without a sailboat. We have booked an apartment in Melaque for 2 months starting November 15th. But we flew south on November 13th on Westjet.
The Calgary airport has just opened a new international terminal. It has big, wide open spaces but not enough washrooms nor chairs. 
The worst thing about the terminal is that there is no Tim Horton’s there! But there was a nice sculpture of a “Family of Bears” done by Stewart Steinhauer of Creston BC.
We stayed at the Hotel Barra de Navidad right across from our favourite restaurant: Ramons. 
The hotel’s restaurant, Bananas, was a perfect place for breakfast. We had been there previously for dinner but had not been too impressed. It just does breakfast now and it was great. There is a nice greeter at the entrance to the restaurant.
We had some rain the first 2 days and were concerned that the clouds would make it difficult to see the super moon on Monday night. We went to El Manglitos on the lagoon to see if we could see the moon rise. We were entertained by a local fisherman pulling his panga behind him as he swam to shore.
We didn’t see the moon come up so walked back to the square to see if the clouds had cleared. The moon was barely visible but we were encouraged to join the local women in their excercise class.
We were able to see the Super Moon as it was almost setting from our hotel room the morning. It didn’t look that much bigger than normal to us!
Today we are moving to Melaque and are hoping for some sun.
We enjoyed the lobster rolls at Peake’s Quay before heading back for Karen to have a nice chat with Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first prime minister.
