GCV Commences!

On Friday morning, I was up and out of the house by around 11AM and headed over to Plazamar thinking that the girls might have arrived early. Their flight was scheduled to get in at 10:20AM, which meant it left Toronto at 6AM. If you extrapolate that time backwards, it means that Heidi and Rose were up at 2AM Toronto time or 1AM Vallarta time. Keep that in mind ...

I promised to help M.A. with her suitcases so I climbed three flights of stairs to her room at the Lily to find her totally packed and sitting on the bed reading. Apparently she forgot to change her watch to Vallarta time so she had been sitting around for an hour waiting for me. At first she was worried I was not going to show up but then realized her mistake.

As we wheeled up to the front door at Plazamar, we could see the other Goddesses had arrived. After many hugs, kisses and airplane horror stories later, we were off for lunch at Banana Cantina. I had been raving about Debbi Egan's new restaurant for a couple of weeks and they couldn't wait to try it! We were not disappointed. The food is excellent and the decor is very bright and colourful. Next time you're in Vallarta, check them out above Choco Banana, on the corner of Amapas and Pulpito.

After that we hit the Scotiabank and then I left them to get settled in at the condo. We met later for drinks on the terrace, overlooking the ocean, and took some opening night photos. Then it was off to dinner at Daiquiri Dick's. Lenin and Jorge were playing a benefit concert that night to help raise money for their special projects (children). Dinner was amazing, as usual. I had salmon, Heidi & Bea had Mahi Mahi, M.A. had shrimp and Rose had ostrich. Then we headed over to La Noche, our favourite "alternative" martini bar and closed the first evening of GCV with a nightcap.