By George Wilson
We did have a great time during our eight day visit to Mexico and one adventure was particularly funny to the Wilson newly weds. We decided one late afternoon to visit a seafood restaurant called Sandy's that was favored by the locals as THE place to enjoy jumbo shrimp and assorted other seafood delights. We did our best presentation of "snappy dress" and headed towards our destination via the city bus with the locals. After about twenty bus stops and a hundred stares from the locals trying to figure out why the happy looking gringos were on the bus, we arrived at the front door of Sandy's ready to chow down! Although the place resembled a fugitive grass hut from a hurricane, we happily found a comfortable table with two well worn plastic chairs and a table in the back. For about ten minutes we watched as a parade of people went to and from the kitchen while others stood around watching a local Mexican soap opera on a beat-up t.v. in the corner. Finally, a man came over and asked what we wanted. Both of us started naming off the various seafood items on the menu thinking he was taking our order when actually all he wanted to know was what we were doing in the place since it was CLOSED for the evening! It seems the locals were enjoying some type of holiday and that all the local businesses were closed at 6 p.m. Like the many dogs in the neighborhood, we walked back to the bus stop along a dusty road with our tails between our legs and our heads drooped to wait for a ride back to our condo on the local bus line. After a short wait, the newly wed gringos got back on the bus and headed back to the Baja Cabo resort for a quiet dinner, a beautiful sunset, and a smile about our seafood outing adventure. :-)
