Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad

Two out of three ain’t bad – my mantra for yesterday. The concert at Casa Karma was canceled late in the day, so my concentration was on Scrabble and Bingo. Both went well.

The first 2024/25 season bingo for Colina Spay and Neuter took place upstairs at Nacho Daddy. The atmosphere was giddy, with Rose Kennedys flowing like margaritas for our sassy ball caller, Lydia Damato. Janathan Rios was in the sound booth, adding to the carnival atmosphere of a bunch of old friends getting together for a couple of hours of banter and day drinking! It was the best afternoon I have had in months! We, the residents of Vallarta, are anxious for the weather to change; for our darling snowbirds to come back, to shake off the damn lethargy that tropical humidity imparts that makes us slow down, and to get this party started. That exuberance will last until Christmas, and we’ll all be fine. The lull after New Year’s will have us anxiously biting our nails, where the hell are all the tourists? Then they arrive mid-January, and we do not come up for air until Easter.

So goes living in a touristy place. My only suggestion would be to spread the love a little more evenly over the year. And I think that’s coming but not from tourists. Vallarta is shining like a beacon for people wanting to change their lifestyles, to live somewhere where you can have almost all the amenities of an enormous city and still walk everywhere you need to be and get there within ten minutes. And we can live outside nearly every day of the year in the snowless mountains or close to the sea. How perfect is that? Our entertainment standards have reached NYC levels. As a matter of fact, much of NYC will be visiting Vallarta in the spring!

Stay tuned here and check VallartaCalendar.com daily to see what’s going on or what you are missing if you are away.