Our first team visit!

What a whirlwind, what a blessing! We had our first team visit these last few days and it was a complete and total blessing for us and for the communities in which we serve. The team was lead by Kathy and Mike and included Josh, Julia, Michael, Lindsey, Brittany, Amber, Aaron, John and Nate. They are an awesome group of folks from Minnesota Valley Free Lutheran Church.



They had breakfast at our house each day and then closed the day either with dinner out or food ordered in at the Lumppios, followed by a time of Bible study and sharing. Their days here were completely jam packed!



Friday morning they were off to the neighborhoods in La Cruz to deliver invitations and tracts to the people they met. They were inviting people to the municipal plaza to see them perform a drama, a puppet show and sing hymns and choruses in Spanish.







Later in the day they got all set up in the plaza and started to draw a crowd almost immediately, Nate deftly prepared balloon critters that delighted kids and cops alike!







They did a fine job with their performance, which was followed by a salvation message delivered by Pastor Jose. It was all so well received and the crowd had grown so much by the end that they decided to run through the whole thing again!







At the very end they also offered free face painting to the kids and entertained them all by blowing bubbles while they were waiting in line, giving the rest of us more time to speak with as many people as we could. We also ended up attracting a local dance team that was getting ready to practice in the plaza, so we had a good crowd of teens! Nice cross-generational mix! The kids did such an awesome job and through both performances they attracted about 150 people! One of the kids was giving the bust of Miguel Hidalgo a bath while he waited for his family!



Saturday brought a repeat, as we canvassed the neighborhoods of Ceuta, inviting them to the church later in the day for the performances. The kids did a great job, adding crafts to the mix here as well as the balloon critters, face painting, bubbles and their fine performances. The salvation message was issued by Pastor Ismael. There were more than 60 children and more than a few adults and teens in attendance. It was an awesome time. Lidia was able to have an extended talk with some of the former youth group members and was encouraged by their response to her invitation to return to church. Please keep that in prayer!

Sunday, they attended and participated in church services here in La Cruz and in Ceuta, giving everyone more time to interact with people they’d met in the previous days. It was a completely blessed time.



And, no, we didn’t work them totally to death the whole time they were here! There was time for afternoon rest, shopping in our downtown and at the MZ. They explored the myriad of Mexican snack foods. The discovered the joy of agua frescas.



We even worked in a visit or two to Playa Ceuta!



They sampled some of the local cuisine at our favorite restaurants and had some meals with Pastor Jose and his wife and with the church in Ceuta.



We got them on the bus this morning for Mazatlan, where they will rejoin the rest of their team and minister there for a couple more days before returning home. We will miss them!! They were such a pleasure to host and a joy to be around. They worked together so beautifully even though it was the first mission trip for many of them.

They were a blessed break in our routines of learning language and culture too! They left us with many wonderful goodies from crafts to medicines to bibles, tracts, gospels of John and they also brought us chocolate chips, graham crackers and Jiffy corn muffin mixes! Woohoo! These are great folks that enriched our lives as we interacted with them. Their impact will be felt in our communities for a long time to come. Thank you MVFLC and thank you Jesus for sending these folks to La Cruz and Ceuta!

A pretty great week, praise the Lord!

Ralph is doing much better, still a little lack of energy, but I think we both feel that a bit more now with the weather so hot and muggy. Temps consistently in the low to mid 90s with humidity anywhere from 50% to 75%. I got all hot and sweaty just making breakfast this morning and I didn’t even cook, just bagels with cream cheese and mangoes!!

Pastor Jose is doing much better too, and we are thankful. His spirit and outlook has definitely improved!

We did have a tiny bit of rain on Wednesday last week, just enough to put the wipers on for a couple of minutes. It was funny though because we noticed later that you could see the little impact craters of each rain drop in the dirt. Thundershowers have been forecast for more than three weeks now, not one has materialized. The big thunderheads roll in, hang out for a while and roll right back out.

Our cop friend Juan Manuel finally sat down for 90 minutes of chat and Bible reading. Most of our conversations with him have been on the go, when we see him in town or as he passes by on his work shifts or on the way to the super or taking Cruz to and from her job at the MZ. They just live half a block from us. But the other night he stopped, parked and came in and sat down!! It was a blast. He was in the army for six years, then plain clothes investigator for the state police (FBI equivalent) in Culiacan for eight years, but he said there was just too much violence. And though being a cop here is still dangerous (drugs mostly) it is still “tranquillo” compared to Culiacan.



I struck up a conversation with Rosario as she was waiting for the bus in front of the house, she came over to admire our flowers and we just chatted away while she waited, finally Ralph came out to let us know that the bus wasn’t running that day. I hadn’t even noticed!! She would have had a long walk home, about 10 blocks in the blazing sun. Her son is our back window neighbor, but he was at work with his truck. So we said we’d give her a ride home. She was very surprised that we’d offer but took us up on it. She insisted that we come in and wanted to feed us tamales, but we’d already ordered tamales from Pastor Jose, so we just stayed and visited for a while. She has a beautiful house with gorgeous tiles, huge beautiful laquered wood furniture, etc., and she was so nice. She told us all about her family, total of 10 kids, all close by here. She has two conures (little parrots) and two dogs, one of them completely hairless! Had a great time with her, finally had to take off, but she sent us home with pepper plants from her garden! Then later in the evening Candy and I were out front chatting and this pickup comes around the corner and up the road with an arm sticking out of the window holding a bag…it was Rosario with a bag of mangos for us!!

In potting up the pepper plants for the garden I discovered where our homeless gecko had moved to…the pots stored under the stairs. When I picked them up I startled him and he jumped from the pots to my bare foot. He stopped, kinda trying to figure out what he landed on for a few seconds and then scooted under the water barrel. We had a gecko living in our circuit breaker box, but the workers made him leave when they put the new one in a couple of weeks back and the new box is closed rather than open like the old one, so he couldn’t get back into his house and had to find a new one.

And our house geckos have a baby. We discovered him in the kitchen last night. So tiny I could have mistaken him for a bug, but nope! Baby gecko!

Ralph went over to Judi’s for his haircut this morning and her mom and dad sent him home with a bag of mangoes…going to have to make some sorbet I think to preserve them all. Even I can’t eat that many mangos, as much as I love them. They are small mangos, they fit in the palm of your hand, super sweet too because they are ripened on the tree.

And Ralph got his little surround sound system hooked up this morning, we needed an adapter and cable that we couldn’t get here so we got them while we were in Mazatlan yesterday. Now we can compete with the neighbors, music-wise! We have about 50 channels of music on our satellite, so he’s presently got it on “Ultimate Oldies” and he and Pastor Jose were rockin’ out on the patio!

We hired a Spanish tutor to help us with the finer points of sentence structure, verbs, tenses. We’ve just had two hours with her so far and it’s already made a world of difference! She sweet and funny, and is a teacher at the Prepatory School, basically high school. She really is a gift from God for us.

We had our team meeting in Mazatlan yesterday, and at Mary Ann’s suggestion we BBQed at Bosque de Cuidad park. Huge park with very shady picnic areas with grills and loads of kids toys to keep the girls busy. Our meetings are now once a month and include worship and communion, much better format for us all I think. Here are some pictures from our lunch in the park.

Gracie J on the big slide:



Ralph trying to talk Gracie L into the big slide, she eventually went, but only if he went with her!



Darwin’s masterpiece:



Chowing down!



Gracie J taking it easy after a lot of playing:



Thanks for all your prayers and support…we are so thankful for you all!

Love and Blessings,

Ralph & Chris

A little bit of everything

Ralph has been ill off and on for most of the last two weeks and he's been very frustrated by it. Missionary stomach has returned and he's also lost a lot of energy. Additionally, he has been suffering from a skin rash on his shins, back and stomach. Pretty miserable time for him. He's beginning to feel better today, but still has a ways to go. Please keep him in prayer.

Pastor Jose has been very discouraged this week, even coming to tears a couple of times during church. We ask him how he's doing, if there is anything we can do and he always says he's fine and nothing to do. Please keep him in prayer as well.

The church will be hosting a team from Minnesota in June and the two small bodies in La Cruz and Ceuta are stretching a bit in an effort to plan for them and to host them. It's a big task, so please be praying as they prepare over the next two weeks. The team will be here June 15-18 and they plan to do some puppetry and some street ministry as well as participating in Sunday services here and in Ceuta.

Two sweet little ones turned two years old this week and we were invited to both fiestas! Ivana, the daughter of our neighbor Judith (the woman who cuts Ralph's hair), had her fiesta last Saturday. She was dressed up as Belle from Beauty and the Beast and she had a great time. Her family had a huge party. There were so many kids there they had two piñatas because one wouldn't hold up for all of them to have a few swings at it! They served a nice meal, soft drinks and cake and jello (no ice cream, melts too quickly). Every party guest got a bag of sweets to take home with them. Ralph was disappointed because our workers were still here and he couldn't even make an appearance at this party.





And even though he didn't feel all that well, he didn't miss Gracie's party on Tuesday! It was Tom and Lidia's first official "do" since arriving in Mexico and they were a little nervous about doing it right. Boy, did they ever do it right! All the kids had a blast and Gracie's party was all about Tigger. Orange balloons, Tigger cake and pinata, even orange jello! They served these great hot nachos too, really fabulous, tasty beans, meat in a great sauce and two kinds of cheese on top! And of course, sent everyone home with the requisite bag of sweets! Perfectly done.




We bought a small air conditioner for use later as the summer heats up and hired Jacobo's handymen to do the installation and to add another circuit and some extra outlets in the house. It was a very long day, the guys were here more than 12 hours, sprayed a small amount of water and concrete into the living room in error, initially hooked up the new circuit incorrectly and generally made a huge mess. But we have the new circuit, six new plugs in the living room, three in the bedroom, one for the air conditioner (and a hole in the wall for the a/c unit) and one for the washer on the patio. We were able to get rid of four extension cords and two power strips! Woohoo! Plus it's so nice to just walk up to the washer and run it...not to have to open the kitchen window and run an extension cord through it for power!





In the midst of all of this we managed to tick off a couple of things for the visa list: we got our lovely black and white photos taken on the way to Gracie's party and also had the same place make the copies we needed of stuff. Slowly but surely we are making progress on this. Also, if we can't get it all together before our tourist visa expires, we DO NOT have to leave the country and come back in. We can either pay a fee and apply for an extension of our tourist visa, or we can apply for our FM visa without all the materials, then they will just wait for the rest of the stuff. We are mostly waiting on Pastor Lupe now, and the letter he had to write to Religious Affairs in Mexico City, and the official response from them. This is a continuing item for prayer.

And, after nearly four months in La Cruz we finally got our first telephone bill! Praise the Lord. Up to this point we've had to wander downtown and give the local payment guy our phone number, he'd call Mexico City to find out what we owed and we'd pay him and get a receipt. Never an itemized bill. If we can get one more paper bill from Telmex, then we can get online and get copies of the bills we missed and view and pay future bills online. That will be great. We've already discovered that we are being charged for stuff we didn't order, and those things are coming off on our next bill. It certainly helps to actually see what you are paying for!

We also got a new pack of Pastor Bill's sermons from Sue and Bob. Thanks guys!! We really enjoy getting these, certainly miss his great sermons!

For the next three weeks WMPL will be training new mission candidates in their Briefing Course in Minneapolis. Please keep the staff and participants in prayer as they complete this important step in their mission journey.

As always, we continue to need prayer for language and culture learning!! With Ralph's illness we didn't get out to practice as much as we would have liked, and any time not practicing is a setback. We hope to make up for lost time as he is feeling better.

Thanks so much for your notes, cards, prayers and support. We couldn't do this without you!

The many languages of Mexico

On being multi-lingual: The language of words

Many thanks to all of you who have sent us cassette tapes so that we can record “Palabras de Vida” (Words of Life) and other Gospel messages to distribute to the families in the camps we visit. Since we don’t own a cassette player/recorder, we asked Darwin to duplicate some for us, but he did us one better!! He loaned us the dubbing machine that is on loan to him from Gospel Recordings (with their permission, of course!). He also brought us many original tapes for the many languages of Mexico. This isn’t all the languages, mind you, but many of them. Thought you might like to see exactly how many languages there actually are! We knew there were a lot, but goodness…when he arrived with the tapes I was astounded.



The language of worship

The work in the camps is certainly winding down for the sultry summer months. Campo Santa Lucia is completely shut down for the season, but we were blessed to be invited to a send off worship there last Friday night. Jose, Ralph and I went out and said our farewells to the families we’ve been visiting as they head back south to their homes and families in Guerrero. We then we attended an outdoor worship with the small band of believers in that camp singing and praising the Lord. As an added treat for us there was a US missionary visiting from a tiny town in Jalisco (9 hours south) and we were able to visit with him for a bit too. He was happy to see us, he hadn’t spoken English in months!! We gave him our e-mail and Skype information and hope to keep in touch with him.

The language of service

We walk by these mural walls as we walk to the post office, and they were really beautiful, but had become quite faded and dirty. This week as we were driving through the neighborhood we saw teams of youth cleaning and restoring the murals. They are now so vibrant and beautiful again that they brighten up the entire neighborhood! Not sure who got this all organized, but God bless them for a lovely bit of work!



The language of music

We both love music, which is a good thing because we are pretty much surrounded by music much of the time here. We hear it in our own house, of course, at the camps, in the stores, at the plaza and in church. We also hear it from the cars and trucks that pass by, from the dances at the nearby social club and from the neighbors’ homes as well. You know I’m fond of the banda style of music that was born and bred here in Sinaloa, but I have discovered that I do have my limits!

Dia de La Cruz, May 3, we were awakened at 4 a.m. by loud banda music coming from La Cruz Plaza up the hill. By 8:30, they were still going strong so I walked up to see what was what. Turns out it was just a celebration by construction workers before heading out to work for the day. They had placed a nice bouquet of flowers at the base of the cross near the fountain and they broke up shortly after I arrived and went off to their various jobs. We also noticed many of the construction sites around town had fresh flower crosses to celebrate the day too. Nice music, but a tad too early of a start for us! These kids were at the plaza watering the flower arrangement when I went by again later in the day and they posed for a picture. Now whenever we see them in town they all greet us! (This group falls into the language of friendship and learning below!)



Then this week our three neighbors across the street banded together and had a huge party, every parking spot for blocks around was taken and they hired, guess what? A huge banda group to play for the party. At first we thought it was great, we thoroughly enjoyed the front row seats to the free concert, and we had the Lumppio girls that evening, and they were dancing and enjoying it too. But after more than five hours, we’d had enough of the music that I otherwise enjoy. Overdosed on the language of music!

The language of friendship and learning

Jose and Ralph continue to practice language with each other and it is amazing to hear them communicating and laughing and learning together. Jose is even picking up a bit of English along the way.



In the last two weeks I’ve been visited by both the Avon lady and the Jafra lady. I’m allergic to so much stuff that I’m chicken to try perfumes, lotions and makeup, but I had wonderful long conversations with both of these women and had a blast. Even got a compliment on my Spanish from the Jafra lady! Yes! I am encouraged when even strangers can understand me! Praise the Lord for the gift of language learning!

We’ve also met a couple more ladies in town during our visits. Sylvia and Letty. Two more people to visit with in our travels and practice our Spanish with. Although our other practice people still visit with us, it’s nice to expand to a couple of new folks too!

The language of love

This is one that we are intimately familiar with! The love of God and fellow Christians. The love we’ve shared in more than 34 years together. The love of our families, friends, prayer partners and fellow workers. It can be quite overwhelming at times, and is metered out in perfect doses, just as we need encouragement! Praise the Lord!



The Mexico Field Team in front of the downtown Mazatlan church: Mary Ann, Pastor Lupe, Chris B (HQ), me, Cristina, Lidia, Ralph, Gracie L, Tom, Darwin and Gracie J!

In Him,

Ralph and Chris

Quick update!

Thanks so much for your prayers for Francisco and his family. After more testing and a visit to specialist, the new doc could find no sign of the heart and kidney difficulties that had been diagnosed earlier (which resulted in the referral to him!). Praise the Lord! He does, however, have TB but that is treatable under a free government program, and he can get the treatment here in La Cruz. He lives in Tayoltita, a few miles south of here, but it shouldn't be a problem to get in and get his meds.

Also, our friend Ted's surgery on his knees was reschedule to July when he came down with pneumonia, however, our friend Carolyn's back surgery is still scheduled for May 17, so please continue to pray for her and her husband and for the health care folks who'll be caring for her before, during and after the surgery.

Please continue to pray for the visa situation. We found out on Tuesday we needed to pay an extra $400 pesos for the two letters that Pastor Lupe needs to write to get the ball rolling. That's been paid, but it just begins the process really.

Praise that Maria Luisa seems much better and is up and around more. She and Jacobo are getting ready to take off for her doctor visits in the states soon, so her improved health is a plus for their travel time. Pray that the doctors will find a solution for her health/vision problems.

Praise that Presidente Fox did not sign the new drug legislation. He had previously told the congress and the media that he would be signing the bill, but after intense pressure from other countries, including the US, he decided not to sign!!

Last, but certainly not least! We have happy news to report on the home front: two of our nieces have announced their engagements!! Billie Jo and TJ will marry on July 7, 2007 in Olympia, and Amy and Dan have announced their intent to marry during their winter break from school this coming December!! Amy and Dan are both in Bible school in Portland, Oregon, but the wedding will take place either in Shelton or Olympia. So, two unexpected but happy trips to the states coming up. We are so happy and thankful for these two matches made in heaven!! Praise the Lord!!

Love and blessings,

Ralph & Chris

Prayers and praises!

The prayers:

Please pray for Francisco and his family. He's one of the folks from Tayoltita, he's married, but his wife has left and he's working and caring for their two children, a boy 8 and a girl 10. Francisco has been quite sick in recent weeks and quite swollen. Darwin and Mary Ann took him back to Mazatlan with them two weeks ago to see a doctor there and the doc did a basic check up and gave him some tests and some meds to reduce his swelling.

This week he went back to Mazatlan with Darwin and apparently he's got some serious health issues concerning his heart and kidneys and he must return to Mazatlan this coming Tuesday for more testing with a specialist on Wednesday morning. The outcome doesn't look too good from a human perspective, as the specialist said that left untreated as he was he would have died within six months. The issues are not only his health but his kids and his wife too. Appreciate your prayers.

Prayers also for our landlord's wife, Maria Luisa. She has diabetes, and has been having vision problems for some time now. Jacobo has been taking her to various doctors and they have been doing various treatments without much improvement. Additionally, she seems much more frail recently, though she will tell you that she's actually feeling better. She's lost more weight, and was thin when we first met her in January. Jacobo recently got a referral to an eye specialist in Los Angeles, and another in Yuma, AZ. They are preparing to take a trip to see them both in hopes of having her failing vision restored. Please keep them in prayer not only for all the health professionals that they will see but also for travel mercies as they drive up for these appointments.

Prayers also for two friends at home in Washington having surgeries coming up soon. For Ted, our neighbor from around the corner in Olympia, who has knee surgery scheduled for May 5 and Carolyn, from our small group at church, who has her surgery scheduled for May 17. Both have been in a lot of pain, and it is our prayer that the Lord will guide the surgeons and get them on the road to recovery, free from the pain that has plagued them.

Prayers also for our newly reformatted team meetings, the first of which is tomorrow. We'll be meeting at a beach, worshiping, communing, sharing and eating comida together. The beach, worship and communion are new additions to the meeting, coming out of our visit from our personnel guy. And we'll only be meeting once a month now, rather than every other week. May 1 is also a national holiday in Mexico, the day of the worker, Dia de Trabajo.

Prayers for our visa process. We've just discovered that Pastor Lupe in Mazatlan must write letters for the three of us (me, Ralph and Tom) and send them off to Mexico City, and then we have to wait for a letter back from them before we can apply for our visas. We all need to at least apply for our visas before the end of June or we'll have to drive to Nogales and enter the country again on a tourist visa! Please pray that Lupe gets the letters out this week, and that the officials in Mexico City also act quickly on the requests and return them promptly so that we can get the process going officially and avoid a trip north! Lidia, Cristina and Gracia are Mexican citizens and don't need visas!!

Prayers for Darwin, Mary Ann and Gracie as they prepare for a couple of months of travel to visit and encourage the churches in Puebla and Nogales before they head out to San Diego for their vacation. They expect to leave sometime in mid-June when Gracie gets out of school and return in early September. Travel mercies, good relationships with the church leaders and good rest and relaxation with family in the states.

Prayers that Presidente Fox WOULD NOT sign a bill before him from the Mexican congress, which would eliminate penalties for those caught with small amounts of some drugs. Sales of drugs in any quantity would still be illegal, but certain possessions by "consumers" would not. Here's a list of the drugs and the "okay" amounts for personal use:

opium (raw, to be smoked) 5 grams
heroin, 25 mg
marijuana 5 grams
cocaine 500 mg
LSD .015 mg
MDA 200 mg
MDMA (Ecstasy) 200 mg
mescaline 1 g
peyote 1 KG (2.2 pounds)
psilocybin (concentrate, pure, active ingredient) 100 mg
hallucinogenic mushrooms (raw, off the farm) 250 mg
amphetamines 100 mg
dexamphetamines 40 mg
Phencyclidine (PCP, or Angel Dust) 7 mg
methamphetamines 200 mg
Nalbuphine (synthetic opiate) 10 mg

The praises!!

Praise as this week and last I was able to read the scripture in church when Pastor called on me!! I was surprised, as he's never called on me before and now he's done it two Sundays in a row. I'm thankful that my Spanish has improved enough that I can be understood when I speak and also when I read aloud, so I didn't embarrass myself. Our learning is not just speaking, but reading and writing as well. I also was thankful this week as my bookcase Genaro made arrived and it is a thing of beauty! He did such a nice job with it, even put it on casters so I can move it easily to dust under it! I was able to write a thank you note to him and Carmen in Spanish. Carmen would accept nothing less of course!! We were so blessed to have these two as our hosts for our first month in Mexico.

Praise also for an early morning visit from Pastor Jose on Thursday. He arrived at 7:45, I was cleaning the patio and he was cleaning the church and he came by with more tamales de Elota for us, which was very nice. He stayed and chatted for more than an hour and then asked if he could accompany Darwin and Ralph to Campo Santa Lucia that evening!!! What a tremendous blessing! We had been praying that he would take an interest in the work in the camps so we were thrilled that he asked to come along. He had a blast and asked if he could go again next week!! We weren't sure if he would or not, but this morning in church he prayed for the people in the camps, and after service he reiterated to us that he wanted to go again on Thursday!! Praise the Lord!!

Praise also for communion today in church. This is the first time we've had communion since January 8 at our home church in Olympia!!! The churches and pastors here have been trained, but they "just don't do it". But this morning when we arrived for church Mimi (Pastor's daughter) was preparing the wine and wafers! Hopefully La Cena del Senor (The Lord's Supper) will become a regular part of our worship times. That's our prayer!

Thanks for praying and praising along with us. We love and appreciate you all so much.

Town and home tour

We've had several people ask to see more of our town and more of our home, so here goes!

We rent an apartment in a building with six other families, all in varying sizes of apartments. Ours is one of the largest, with two bedrooms, many of the others have just one. We are at one end, the landlord and his wife (Jacobo and Maria Luisa) are at the other on the bottom floors. Diana and her husband and their roommate live above us. That's their patio above our cochera.



Most places here, including ours, have no water heater, no furnace and the whole house runs on one breaker. Water for our shower is heated by a coil that runs into the shower head. This isn't our shower, but it shows the same thing and the wire running directly into the shower head. Took some getting used to but it works great!!



Here's a look at our patio, where we have breakfast, rest, read, visit and pray, as well as garden and do laundry:





Our living room:





Our kitchen:



Our bedroom. Notice no blankets! We've already lost the quilt, which we needed when we first moved here, then the blanket, and now we are down to just the sheets!




Our guest room:



A view of La Cruz from the air:



This is a look up and down our street. In the "down" view, that's the rest of the apartment building on the left and the church on the right. In the "up" view, that's Hotel JR on the right:




Plaza La Cruz is at our end of town:



The municipal plaza at the other end (also known as Miguel Hidalgo Plaza). The Catholic church is located on the plaza. This large plaza is where most stuff happens in town. We walk up here every day and get an "agua fresca" of some kind and people watch and visit.



The municipal building is across the street from municipal plaza and the interior is an open courtyard design, very pretty. There's even a large mural in the stairwell, but it's too dark and too big to get a picture:




A couple of the side streets, the second one shows Rin Rin Pizza, the largest pizza joint in town. Two of our neighbors, Diana and Luis Francisco work here. But we get our pizza from Felix, across from Hotel JR, MUCH better pizza and one block from home!




This tree trunk looks like an elephant foot to me, and it marks where one of the larger ferreterias is in town...big hardware store. They put a lot of their merchandise out on the sidewalk, sometimes you have to squeeze by. It's not Home Depot, but it's big for here.



The La Cruz Post Office:



Uncrowded beach at Playa Ceuta, 10 minutes from the house. You won't find one like this in Mazatlan!!



Fishers at Playa Ceuta:



Samples of shells from Playa Ceuta:



That's the tour...thanks for asking!

Have a blessed day!