{"id":2614,"date":"2023-01-15T21:35:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syfrenchkissinglife.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2023-09-23T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T03:36:17","slug":"feliz-ano-nuevo-we-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syfrenchkissinglife.com\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Feliz An\u00f5 Nuevo! We are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So to catch up real quick, we went to Glendora, California for Christmas with the Latasa\u2018s and then New Year\u2019s\/Oma\u2018s birthday in Michigan. Had a great time with all and even had a lot of snow when we first got to Mi. American Airlines managed to have all three connecting flights into Michigan arrive late (kids flew in from different places) and James had to spend the night in Chicago and rent a car to get there the next day. When we returned to Mazatlan they had lost our luggage although that might have been a blessing because they delivered it by taxi two days later and we didn\u2019t have to worry about paying any import taxes on all of our boat parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I promptly came down with Covid for the first time and had a particularly bad bout for several days. But the timing was OK for being stuck in the marina for a week because the Mexican government captured El Chapo\u2018s son and the cartel went nuts blockading roads with burning cars and trucks and even shooting at airplanes resulting in everything being closed, including airports. They didn\u2019t reopen for US based airlines until a week later. Even schools and hospitals closed for a couple days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marina El Cid is just one of a series of El Cid resorts here in Mazatlan and we get full use of all the facilities, including great pools with hidden caves connecting to other pools and hot tubs. We explored the large mangrove estuary that surrounds the several marinas and housing areas here. The number of large, jumping fish is astonishing. Just everywhere you look there are fish leaping out of the water all day long. Found a couple of really big iguanas sunning out over the water as well. Also saw our first Roseate Spoonbill birds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t

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