Another great vacation in puerto Vallarta

Jaime and I just came back from a nice relaxing week in Puerto Vallarta. This is to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary. Wow time flies. Its also the first time we are returning to the same location and hotel as last year. We were not disappointed. It has become one of our favorite vacation spots.

Here are all the highlights
- first time scuba diving :-) we took a class at the hotel in the pool for an hour and then went snorkeling and diving the next day to Marietas island. So glad we did it. It was always on my bucket list of things to try. The hardest part was actually equalizing our ears to the depth both on the way down and up. Gotta go slow. We were diving for about 30 min at 30 feet with an instructor and two other beginners.
- salsa dancing on the malecon. It was pouring on Thursday night but it didn't stop us from taking a cab to downtown to the most popular salsa club enjoying live Cuban music. I danced with some locals while jaime watched and relaxed. It was a small floor but very lively with some great Cuban dancers. By the one we came out at 1am the rain cleared. I was drenched from the humidity and dancing and felt refreshed at the same time
- learned a new bar trick - tilting a glass with a napkin and toothpick. Will have to show you.
- saw rope based circus performance up close. In sat night the first night we went to Zoo a night club downtown and stood 10 feet from their club performers who dressed in skin tight animal outfits and did some amazing antigravity feet on a rope hanging from the tall ceiling
- eat local tacos after clubbing at republica tacos on malecon
- having coco frios on the beach in late afternoon. They cut up the fresh coconut after we drank the juice and dress it from salt lime juice, and prapika. It was delicious
- being active at the hotel. We played water polo and do morning yoga. I also took a dance class, 3 water aerobic classes, and did rifle shooting and one crazy game. Fun!
- climbing the iceberg, an inflatable structure floating on the ocean. Needs two people one on each side to counter balance. I almost made it to the top but then my top started slipping. I let go since I was about to flash people. ;-)
- eating lunch at 8T a local restaurant walking distance from hotel. Had 3 different kind of cerviche. Very fresh although the food at the hotel was equally good
- enjoying all kinds of food at the hotel. Will tell you more about it in the next post about our hotel.
- meeting people at the bar or pool. 3 couples - A mixed Filipino and white couple from St. Louis. Charmaine and Kevin. one Indian couple from bay area. Anupam and archna . And then another couple from St. Louis. James and Elizabeth.
- we had all kinds of shots with the last two couple at the pool. The bartender just created different ones to surprise us.
- going to mandala with James and Elizabeth on Monday night. Elizabeth is gorgeous and tall. All the local boys loved her. Mandala is a fancy nightclub on malecon. We danced the night away and even got the DJ and change to hiphop music from techno. Yay!
- we got pretty dark. Didn't get burned.

Can't wait to see the kids. I am writing this one the plane home. A great trip.