{"id":2451,"date":"2015-04-04T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T22:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:53:46","slug":"semana-santa-saturday-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/semana-santa-saturday-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Semana Santa: Saturday On the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was eerily quiet on Isla this morning, to the point that it, ironically, made it difficult to concentrate! By 2:00, I’d done 60% of my work for today, so it was time to go out and see if the world had ended overnight. I’m not being facetious. It was that<\/em> quiet!<\/p>\n

I guess that Friday is the big day on the beach for Semana Santa because today, to my surprise, was no busier than Wednesday. It is overcast with a cool breeze, but the sun is hot<\/em>, so I can’t imagine the Mexicans find this too cool for their taste, or maybe they do…<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This part of the beach was teeming with people yesterday!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This is practically empty!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sabritas,<\/a>

Sabritas, another word to look up!<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, that was anti-climatic. Sabritas<\/a> are a brand of snack food similar to Frito-Lays.<\/p>\n

\"Clusters<\/a>

Clusters of colourful parasols near the climb to the panga.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Still<\/a>

Still quite a few people in the water.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ride<\/a>

Ride on top kayaks are fun. I’ve never tried one in the ocean, though.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These<\/a>

These banana ride on top boats are very popular here.<\/p><\/div>\n

Instead of a raspado, I decided to approach one of the nieve de garrafa vendors and ask what flavours he had. I remember strawberry, nut, lemon, and chocolate chip, but I know he had more than that. I picked strawberry and even opted for a cone since it was going to be lunch. \ud83d\ude42 It was a huge portion, and only 15 pesos, but not nearly as good as the stuff I get in Maz. But again, 15 pesos! And I have to say the cone was probably the best part! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"So<\/a>

So pretty and yummy!<\/p><\/div>\n

He asked if I wanted syrup on it. I wasn’t sure what it was and asked for a little bit. It turned out to be strawberry, too, and super tasty!<\/p>\n

\"Heading<\/a>

Heading to Google to figure out what agua de cebada is.<\/p><\/div>\n

Agua de cebada, or barley water<\/a>, is a refreshing non-alcoholic drink of Spanish origin.<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/a>

Another empty and CLEAN section of beach.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Unexpected<\/a>

Unexpected art.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was eerily quiet on Isla this morning, to the point that it, ironically, made it difficult to concentrate! By 2:00, I’d done 60% of my work for today, so it was time to go out and see if the world had ended overnight. I’m not being facetious. It was that quiet! I guess that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[731,794],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-beaches","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}