Sometimes we find ourselves so into a schedule around here that it is tough to break it. Today when naps ended earlier than usual we were both sort of caught off guard, like, “What should we do now?”

We went to the beach of course. The beach ran a little late and pretty soon Ouest was hungry. She’s always hungry these days. Just finished three pancakes and a banana for breakfast twenty minutes ago, “Ungry. Ungry Papa. Mama, ungry.” We’re thinking she must be having a bit of a growth spurt because generally with her eating it is something she needs to be reminded to do. “You haven’t eaten in four hours Ouest, do you want a snack?” And you can see it dawn on her that she is indeed hungry and probably has been for two hours.

So tonight she finished dinner and then we went to take a shower. Not five minutes had passed when, “Ungry.” So after the shower it was back home and in bed with another plate of food on her lap along with a cup of milk while I read stories about castles and hippopotamuses.

Welder picked up a part today so he can drill and tap it for me. It’s for the hot water heater engine hose. Once that’s back tomorrow I can hook up the lines and we should, hopefully, have hot water whenever we run the engine. In other words, all the time. I also started the process of getting the new compressor hooked up, but naps and laundry got in the way of that one.

Because we’ve had two kids down here and have had to deal with the U.S. Consulates in order to get their paperwork taken care of, we have also ended up on the consulates mass e-mailing list. Thus, our inbox fills up daily with warnings not to go here or there, not to pay ransoms when somebody calls me up and says they’ve got my wife (as if I needed to be told that), and other miscellaneous tidbits of knowledge. No restaurant recommendations or zip line discount coupons though.

Anyway today we got one that said there were narco problems going on in Guadalajara and that, “anyone on the road should continue directly to the nearest safe area and stay put.” Do they really think any Americans are driving around downtown Guadalajara checking their e-mail and reading these non-stop security warnings? Really, what’s more dangerous, reading e-mail in Guadalajara traffic, or narcos? And besides, don’t they know it is against the law to be on the phone while driving? Not surprisingly there is no UNSUBSCRIBE link at the bottom of any of these e-mails. You can’t unsubscribe from the U.S. government.