Monday, March 19, 2012

puerto vallarta day 2

alarms went off at 9am in time for us to get ready for our 930 am breakfast salespitch thing. we got down there and signed up for the ninety minute presentation trying to get us to invest 40k into 30 years of travel. outside my budget. but we got free breakfast. steph had a ranchero—overeasy egg with enchilada sauce. mmm looked tastey!! i had an omelette complete with cheese, mushrooms, ham, green pepper, and onion. mmmm. Esteban was our sales pitch person and once he looked at us he knew we were not actually interested in the sales pitch. he just had to put us through the motions. he owns a dance studio with his girlfriend and apparently they are quite good. he was from colombia originally. he was quite entertaining. we toured the golf resort, the workout facility, and even got to hang out upstairs in one of the penthouses overlooking the beach. then he had to do his sales pitch. oh its was already two hours later mind you. esteban failed then he brought his friend mel over. mel is the longest running dude and he had some good deals. offered us a deal for 10k. too bad it is still outside of my pricerange. both of them were impressed i vacation once a month. and am a student. oh well. they didnt understandthe whole couchsurfing thing. no use telling people working for a five star resort thats how i roll.

Meanwhile-- esteban brought his friend jesse over-- a cowboy from austin who is a dj down here somewhere and tried talking jesse into giving us free wristbands for the st patricks day party happening at the shamrock in bucerias. a town not too far away. esteban said hed slip us direcions and the wristbands into our room so we could see him there.

after esteban failed at his sale pitch we had to talk to two more people on taking surveys on how our time is so far and the other to give us our 100$ cash. now it is currently 1245 and it is time for the beach. we dont grab our own tequilla instead we find a beach chair and a waitor and start with pina coladas. then onto 4 more margaritas. we shared a nacho too. at about 630pm we headed back to the condo to get ready for our st pattys night. no note from esteban. jerk. we did not have green either. we started walking towards the market insearch of a cab. found one. 30 minutes later and 10$ we were dropped off right infront of the shamrock. total dance party block party with live irish bands. we go inside to the bar to grab a drink lines are way too long. we head back out and notice there is a balcony/upper part. so we head there, but they have the staircase blocked off. somehow steph and i make it up becase one of the bartenders said okay let them go and he told me to watch out for my friend. we had our own private bartender who kept feedign us 3$ coronas. oh. and then there was this random dude with a huge smile that kept smiling at us and talking to us. we hung up in the eagles nest for awhile and then dude wanted to go downstairs and dance. not a dancer. head down anyway and we try and lose him. both of us empty our beer and need more. decide to hhead back upstairs and watch from the railing outside of the rooftop. check and check. made some nice friends. we were watching the live irish bar when all of a sudden we noticed our friend with the big smile is their drummer?!?! what! hilarious. the dude sitting next to us –his wife is related to the bar owner and they have another friend with them. we refer to him as 'dad' he was watching out for us. we soon find out the eagles nest rooftop is VIP for everyone that knows the owner. she comes up decked out in her irish attire. green everything. and the band people come up too. the lead singer sits and talks with us. oh and all i had to do to get more beer is hold up my empty bottle and do a sad face. then we had two more beers coming our way. :-) there were other people that came and we talked to max—was engaged to the owners daughter but hes a player. we called him flow because he looked like your authentic california surfer dude. he was quite funny.-- or funny to make fun of. huge smile dude came and ate the leftovers of stephs potpie. he scarfed that thing down. we each had about 8 beers and we spent 75$ total for the night. which included both ½ hour cab rides. stephs potpie and potatoes, all of our beer, and our 5$ wristband that esteban did not hook us up with. we werent planning on staying out too late. turns out we didnt get home until 2am. overall it was an excellent night

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