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Travel in the times of the Covid - Week 9

Monday Dec 28

Holiday Monday. Went to the beach. It was really crowded but we found a little spaced area. The water was a bit cool but nice to wade in.

Had supper at La Taverna - such a great restaurant with excellent safety protocols and superb prices!

Cocktails, Chicken stir fry, Chicken cordon bleu, Steak with mushroom sauce,apple basket dessert - 750 pesos/$50! 


The repaving of 5th is complete in some areas.

Beautiful colours in the early evening.




Tuesday Dec 29

Back to work for Jordan, cleaning and packing for me. It was a beautiful evening for a walk on 38th Street and to see the full moon at the pier.



Thursday Dec 31

New Year's Eve and moving day! We dragged our cases the three blocks to our new home. It is an older condo but very spacious and quiet. There were a couple of problems that needed to be addressed but we got super fast responses from the host. In the first world problem way, we asked the host if there was any way the dinosaur of a TV with no external inputs could be updated and 2 days later a new smart tv was delivered! The air conditioner in the bedroom also needed to be fixed and a repairman came quickly too.

Our bedrooms - last two windows on 2nd floor








NYE lunch at Los Hijos tostadaria

Delicious tuna burger, so big that Jordan and I split one, but Homer ate the whole thing!

Shimp tostada

Busy beach in the distance.

Beautiful last day of the 2020

Around 8 pm, we went for a walk to see what kind of celebrations were taking place and were surprised to see that it was kind of quiet and some places weren't even open (turns out they were saving up for the BIG partying closer to midnight).
 

We made it to midnight!



Streaming the Times Square ball drop.


Friday January 1

We were craving birria tacos but, when we arrived, it was closed. El Fogon was also closed so we settled on a small place nearby called Fuentes de Soda Paquita.

Just part of the extensive menu.

I tried sinchronizadas and cafe de olla ...

... and a nice fresh fruit plate.

We watched Contagion in the evening. 

Saturday Dec 2nd

Today we received a new updated TV and the AC got repaired. 



Still craving birria, we went to it again around 1 pm - it was open BUT they had run out of the birria meat! Once again we had to settle for an alternative, El Fogon had a long wait line so we tried Don Sirloin which ended up being pretty delicious! (Note, the boys are getting annoyed at me still taking photos of the food all the time!!).

Sirloin alambres

Sunday Jan 3

Went to sit on the beach for an hour before meeting up with David and Yazda, friends from Puerto Morelos. Had a great time chatting over lunch at La Tarraya. It was really nice to talk to people other than ourselves but of course, a lot of the conversation was about living in the times of the covid!

 

The sargassum made an unwelcome return but it was a beautiful day.




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