Cihuatlan Hospital

I've become the taxi driver for a few families in our community when someone in the family is sick. Yesterday they asked me to take them to the Cihuatlan Hospital to get some medicine that wasn't at Seguro Popular here in Melaque. Grandma was having a hard time breathing.

I'm not sure why they didn't call first. Just a Mexican thing, don't trust the system or just didn't have the number. Anyway, Cihuatlan didn't have it either. Seems Seguro Popular is often out of lots of medicine. Back we came and they are off to the local pharmacy to buy the medicine for grandma.

Seguro Popular and Centro de Salud - Cihuatlan

Melaque Skim 2012

X3M will be hosting the 2012 Melaque Skim Contest, taking place March 9-11. The event began in 2007 and is the biggest skimboarding contest in Mexico; competitors will be coming from Ixtapa, Oaxaca, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Cabo, Guadalajara and of course Melaque, as well as the United States, France and Brazil.

On Friday the 9th of March final sign ups will take place on the beach after a free skim, followed by a meeting with the contestants. On Saturday and Sunday (the 10th and 11th of March) the contest will be held.

Melaque Skim Contest 2012

Melaque my home town

Nice little video from someone that lives here or used to ... not sure which. I am honored that they used some of my fotos.