Gay Mixer, First Saturday at the Museo, and Chat With Angeloo
Happy 5 de mayo, the second of three holidays this month; Mother’s Day is coming this Saturday.
At noon today, I am walking up the hill to Restaurante Barcelona Tapas for a press conference on Restaurant Week by Vallarta Lifestyles, which will last nearly a month. It will soon be coming to about 50 restaurants near you! Full report ongoing!
Another successful Gay Mixer took place at Di Vino Dante last week. These crazy busy events are excellent exposures for businesses all over town. There have been 25 so far this season; I believe I have only missed two, maybe three, due to a conflict in schedules., The highlight for me is always spending some time with publisher and editor Jerry Jones. His publication Out & About Puerto Vallarta, is the go-to magazine for our growing gay population. The next one is at Coco Cabaret on Tuesday, May 13th, as always, from 6 to 8 pm. Look for me; I’ll be the only straight person there!
A long-overdue lunch date finally meshed with Georgia Darehshori on Saturday afternoon. We sat outside at Seasons PV by Intercam Banco and Molina de Agua, ate well, and had extraordinary conversations; we talked about the weirdest, strangest things. Childhood memories of occurrences are so vivid that we both relived some chilly events, as in winter. A shrink would have had a ball – LOL!
Later that day, Sandra Bradley, Kay Nash, and I were reunited at the First Saturday bash at Arte Vallarta Museo. We met Cuban Joaquin, who is teaching a printmaking class at the Museo that continues today. Nathalie Herling, the Director of the museum, was there with her husband, Javier Niño. They just celebrated their first wedding anniversary and are still madly in love and very happy.
To celebrate Children’s Day, the local elementary school made masks of animal faces, with the storyline being read in Spanish and translated into English by the best Vet ever – doctora Claudia Cristina Cinta Magallon. She sent me home with kisses and hugs for Bogie. He reluctantly accepted, ever mindful of hidden things like nail clippers and needles. At the end of next week – on the 16th, Bogie and I celebrate our first anniversary. How can a year go by so fast? And, we are still learning – and UNlearning certain behaviors to thrive together. We are both winning. When I wake up in the night and find him sound asleep in my arms, prayers of gratitude go to the universe for this messy-eating (he eats his food mostly off his paws, not out of his bowl), sharp-toothed and nailed Maine Coon that is my darling.
I sat down with Angeloo, the 12-year-old wunderkind yesterday, along with his father, Oscar Corral. Look for that article coming this week in Vallarta Mirror.
Our temperatures have hiked a bunch of degrees during the day, but the evenings and nights are still perfect. May and November are Vallarta’s best-weather months, in case you are planning a trip, and Pride is just around the corner.