Lots of walking today

After breakfast this morning our plan was to do the loop again around the valley here, and take a few pictures of this area where we're living.  We started out on our walk, but then saw there were golfers playing near the trails we would take, so we decided to walk in the opposite direction and come around the other way.  On our way back towards our house, we ran into this man who we see walking everyday with his dog.  And everytime we had seen him, we always chuckle because his dog walks around with his leash in his mouth!!  It is the funniest sight!  Well, we stopped and talked with the guy and he invited us to walk around with him, so we went back in the direction we had started from, waited for the golfers to finish and then walked around the valley.  The man's name is Bill, and his dog's name is Thunder - Thunder reminds us so much of Clia!

Guillermo and Bill walking and talking

When we got across the valley, I took a picture of our house in the distance.  There are some houses in front of it, but you can see the two round windows of the one we live in right there in the center.

Same shot but from a little farther away

 One of the many waterfalls around here.

 One of the many streams that run through this valley.

Here is Thunder holding his leash and that's how he walks the whole time.  Dogs must be on leash, and he is. It looks so funny!! Thunder's face looks just like Clia's

When we were halfway back around, we crossed a little stream and Thunder always gets in right there.

  It started raining about then so Guillermo and I took refuge in a little cabin across the street.  We waited until the rain let up a little and continued on our walk, when we ran into Bill again.  He invited us to walk over to his house and to see the inside.  VERY nice and VERY big!!
After walking, we had lunch in a little restaurant here called el Higueron.  It is right along a stream, and we ate outside.  The food was absolutely delicious!!

Today there wasn't really any sun - and right now, it's 6pm, it's very cool and the clouds are really low on the surrounding hills.  We just love the way the clouds look as they float across those hills.  We just got back from a walk into town to pick up Guillermo's shoe and to get a few groceries.  It sprinkled the whole way into town.  But we felt we should go today, because we hear that tomorrow there's supposed to be very heavy rains.  When we were done shopping, we packed all our groceries into our two backpacks and walked back to the house.  It wasn't raining on the way back, but it's very damp.  The walk back today was a lot better than the other day, since the sun wasn't beating down on us, but with the steep incline right as you get to our house, we end up feeling quite warm!!!