¡Viva Zih!

I give thanks every single day I wake up in this paradise! Your kilometrage may vary.

For those of you who were downtown for the parade this morning, here's a little backstory so you can appreciate what went into the event. About 2:00 AM in the morning city workers with pipas and brooms came through town along the parade route in order to wash the streets. Yes they were loud and quite jovial, but I had to smile because they were busting their butts while there was no traffic and during the cool of the night to spruce the place up a bit. Their work was much appreciated by lots of us.

The barranderos also did an extra good job this morning cleaning up after the thousands of weekend tourists who mostly rolled out of here with their coolers and suitcases yesterday afternoon and evening in a seemingly endless trek during much of the afternoon as they enjoyed their last few minutes at the beach. Family after family. Group after group. Busload after busload.

Lupita and I would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to the kind and generous folks who bring school supplies and "cheater" glasses for Lupita to distribute. She's been extremely busy doing so.

This morning's sunrise seen from the pier.

It was quite encouraging to see all these medical and nursing students. One of the things the new presidente-electo is doing is decentralizing our federal government, and Guerrero will be the new headquarters of the Secretaría de Salud.

The charros are always a favorite part of the parade.