Los Barriles

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This has been one of our favorite cities so far!  I was due to have a gestational diabetes screening soon, so Stu took me into town to the East Cape Medical Center. Everyone was really friendly and the lab only cost $25 usd. He dropped me off at 8 am and went back to get the kiddos settled with breakfast and staring their day. The clinic drew my blood to check for baseline sugar levels after fasting, I drank a glucose solution and waited an hour - they drew my blood - and then waited another hour for the final blood draw. The results were emailed to me by 2 pm!  Everything looks good. 

When the family picked me up, we talked over the idea of renting a side-by-side for a few days. The city roads are small and our truck is quite large. We decided it was a good plan - so we stopped by the rental facility and I drove the side by side back to the campground while Stu drove the truck. 


We got settled and then started out on the day’s adventure. You are allowed to drive the machines on the beach - so we headed to a kite-surfing play land to watch the activity. 


Driving around the various areas in the side by side is a breeze. We checked out some beautiful beach-side houses, drove for about a mile in a riverbed - where we could let Buster loose to run beside us and burn some energy and finally celebrated my good sugar results with ice cream. 


Lucy wanted sushi next, so we headed to Sushito for some amazing mango rolls and fried rice!  


Back to the campground we headed and relaxed for a bit until it was time to get cleaned up for dinner. The group had a wonderful dinner in town and then we called it a night!


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