All of the gringos have gone indoors on this New Year's Day Eve. We stop and listen to some of the local musical entertainment.

Lots of activity and the street vendors in the central plaza (Jardin) are doing a bang-up business tonight, more so than usual.

Goodnight paradise; it's my three guest's last night here. We all stroll together for a while then split off for a while just to enjoy a silent moment, while we try to fuse the memories to last as long as they can.

This day has shown no let-up in the tourist madness; restaurants have people lined out the door; we have 1 hour to eat, get back and get sister to the bus station; due to an enormous wait we are forced to walk out of 2 restaurants. This was the only empty

Neither of us are too happy; two exotic sounding dishes turn out to be Suzanne's scrambled eggs and onions in an odd shape and me with tuna mash in tortillas. All we can do to choke it down.

We make a mad dash for the apartment to grab the luggage and head to the bus station. I accompany her to help resolve (NOT) her ticket that I lost. (Don't ask the outcome.)

More sights along the way. This is the end of Suzanne's journey and the end of my spending a long 4 hours at the bus station, followed by a repeat with Arisbe's assistance to still NOT get the ticket resolved. I said a sad goodbye to my crew, Suzanne to

Next morning, I am determined to have my fish restaurant that I always find closed at the oddest times.

View out the balcony of my cute little fish restaurant. Everyone is gone today so I spent the morning finishing my own packing.

The special is Camariones Diablo (Devil Shrimp). It's 90 pesos (about $7 US). The meal includes an appetizer, a ceviche taco.