when we first moved to sayulita we were amazed at the number of doggies running around town. we assumed they were homeless, but over the course of our stay here we have found out that many of them have owners. i use the term owner in the loosest sense of the word, but at least there is someone keeping an eye out for them.

one of them, who happens to be brenda’s favourite beach doggie, has mange. its been getting progressively worse over the last few weeks so brenda made the executive decision to take him home. he’s been with us for three days now and he’s already doing so much better! the doggie was named “rocky” by the people at the animal clinic. thank god we didn’t have to name him or it would have been the end of his beach days! rocky is really mellow and very easy to take care of. there’s no crying, no peeing or crapping on the porch, and he’s learning not to come into the house (sort of). yet another amazing doggie that we would keep in a heartbeat if we only knew what our plans were!

other than expanding our family, things have been going great. brenda and i are getting better at surfing, and are pretty much completely addicted. when you have one of those great days where the waves are just perfect it feel so good! it makes you feel so lucky to be alive. no wonder why people travel all over the world looking for waves!

we’ve been going to be beach every day for just about three months now and it just doesn’t get old. its great for everyone because we usually run into some friends (or make some new ones!), and nayou amuses himself with all the other kids. even on the days when nayou is driving us crazy, we know we can go to the beach and it will be all ok.

one of nayou’s favourite things to do at the beach is to make a “baño”. for those of you coming at christmas – start getting your biceps in shape because you’re going to be doing a lot of digging!

and while we’re at home, nayou gets up to mischief with our neighbour’s son saul. its good to have an older kid around, especially because saul is a pretty good sharer and nayou needs a good example to follow!

halloween is a big deal in sayulita because it comes the day before the dia de los muertos and also marks the unofficial start of the tourist season. this evening there were festivities in the plaza with all kinds of costumed people running around getting hopped up on beer and refined sugar. brenda whipped up great last minute devil costumes this afternoon and we terrorised the plaza with our fearsome appearance.

it was really fun hanging out in the plaza. we’ve been here long enough that we can just go to public gatherings and find people to hang out with. i guess that’s the plus of living in such a small town.

the best costume of the evening goes to the most gigantic eight month old i have ever seen, which is saying something because mexican babies can be BIG. this dude was dressed as a mummy and sucking furiously on a lollipop. my favourite bit was his belly fat bulging through the bandages. awesome.

have a great halloween everyone!

remember how i blogged about surfing in la lancha and getting shards of rock stuck in my foot? well they’ve been stuck in there until just now, with my body slowly pushing them toward the surface. i started to get a bit of a painful bulge around the largest shard, so about ten minutes ago i used my swiss army knife to pry it out. i got the biggest shock then i yanked it out. it wasn’t a little round bit of rock – it was a huge sliver that was embedded in my heel! i’m so surprised that it didn’t hurt more while i was walking around with it for the last two weeks. eeeek. i’m glad its out now!

about a week ago i met this guy ray from portland, oregon. as is usually the case these days, we met through our children who were playing with us in the ocean. we got to talking and i found out that ray was here to get married to his fiancee shelley. anyway, to cut a long story short, i ended up teaching five people from the wedding party a private yoga lesson at their amazing house this morning. the class went well and i loved teaching against such a stunning view.

i had no intention of charging any money, figuring a yoga class would be a nice wedding gift, but they insisted i take some money so i did. sometimes you can make a good thing bad by refusing things too adamantly, and i didn’t want that to happen. i figured the best way to spend it would be to go out to dinner at one of the nice restaurants in town. so we did. and it was awesome! nayou even sat in his high chair for most of the meal which is nothing short of a miracle.

while i’m busy snapping away with my digital cameras, brenda opts for a more analog approach, shooting pictures with her colorsplash and beloved golden half. she got her latest batch of photos developed the other day and so i figured it was high time to share some of these photos on the blog. i love the way the light leaks and other imperfections in the camera give the photos such a dreamy feel. enjoy!

here are the photos taken with the colorsplash.

and here are the ones taken with the golden half. sometimes we forget to take the lens cap off so we end up with black frames…. oops!