Casa Flamboyan Isla Mujeres Mexico

Finally a decent wifi connection....well after two days at the Francis Arlene Hotel in downtown Isla Mujeres we are in our lovely villa for the next 17 days!  This place is wonderful, really really nice owners downstairs, Harriet and Dick. Gorgeous views, fantastic roof deck, balcony overlooking the caribbean and front balcony with water views and sunset watching.  There are so many places to go! We have ordered pizza delivery tonite, fancy a cozy night in listening to the sounds of the sea!

Graham got a bad sunburn the first day here, on the roof top.  It was slightly overcast and very windy, he is crispy!  We had a wonderful meal last night at Freddys.  Graham had the fillet of grouper with garlic and it was fantastic.  I had the baked chicken mushroom and cheese fajitas.  We love Fredy's.  He is such a character, great sense of humor and and his wife as well.

Our fist night here we tried Lola Valentina's.  Lola used to be partners in the Mango Cafe in Salinas.  We have eaten there and the food was wonderful, unfortunately the meal at Lola's was just ok, kinda bland...oh well plenty of other yummy places on Isla.  I have been totally remiss on the food pics! I have so occupied with getting it down my gullet as fast as possible that have twice now remembered to take the pics after the plate is clean..my bad.  We had breakfast twice at Alexi and Givonnys place at the local mercado.  Family run, cheap as chips and really really good. First morning ham and cheese quesadilla's and today cheese omelete with that lovely gooey mexican cheese which I need to find the name of.

Graham has had huevos rancheros both days and can I say the EGGS!  They are orange yolks, like they should be and so tasty!  I had to laugh at my nephews when they said they don't like the eggs in mexico because they are a funny color.  I said "what do you  mean", they said the yolks were too orange, I was like "THATS THE WAY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE"!!! Not those bland, pale yellow imitation of an egg like we get in Seattle.

We went to Playa Norte today to wait for our Casa to be ready and went straight to Chi Chi Charlies and looked for Tomas, our favorite bartender and they said he didn't work there anymore.  We walked down the beach and asked at the next bar and they said "the next bar" so two more down we found him and he gave us a big hug! He has lost tons of weight and I asked him how and he said "too much "cuchi cuchi".  Hahaha...he sat with us for awhile, then we left to walk back to town.

Went to Picus on the waterfront and had a couple of drinks, they have wonderful food here and they are sooooo nice.  We love sitting here and just watching the fisherman and the boats.