An SUP Event Returns To Sayulita!!

It has been several years since a SUP event has been organized in Sayulita.  This March, SUP competition returns!!  The Sayulita SUP Open is the new event that will attempt to rekindle the days of the Punta Sayulita Longboard and SUP Classic but minus the longboard component.  The Punta Sayulita Classic was one of our favorite weekends of the year when some of the best paddleboarders were in town with music and great action. This new event is the energy of several local big names in the Mexico SUP world and hopes to draw from not only Mexico but north and south of the border.  There will be SUP surf, SUP long distance racing and SUP technical racing.

We will have to wait and see how things work for participation numbers go since COVID still is making travel difficult.  The kids are stoked to be racing down the street in their own back yard and we hope to see a number of the kid's friends on the junior sup team participate as well as perhaps some kids from the CONADE Games that Alex went to in October..  No planes, board rentals or hotel reservations for this one!  Whatever happens during this SUP event weekend it will be fun to see people come to race, surf and be good hosts to everyone so that this can become a beginning to something that happens every year.

Casa PŌNO Kitchen Upgrade

 We have spent the last few years living with a kitchen and dining area done on the cheap.  Plywood countertops, a folding card table and repurposed green plastic lawn chairs were very functional though not exactly high style.

Ashley had had enough.  It was time for an upgrade and she put something together that would accommodate all the kitchen storage needs and keep things uncluttered and out of sight.  Better yet, it would keep things from getting covered in a fine layer of Sayulita dust that accumulates each day and is even worse when we live in a house that is open to the outside during the dry, dusty winter months. 

Simple counter height parota table, side table and tall pantry.  Chairs coming soon.

With some inspiration from a friend's home in San Pancho and armed with photos from Pinterest we enlisted the help of our carpenter to build what she envisioned.  Lots of adjustable shelves, glass panels and room for close to everything that did not have a daily use in the kitchen.  Those daily items would stay on the existing kitchen shelves and be unseen most of the time.

Dining area looking toward kitchen.  Some color yet to come.

The cabinets would be black and reflect the black metal we already had in the house.  Opaque glass panels would help lighten things up a bit.  Upper cabinets were an unplanned call in the kitchen area but a good one.  A clean place to put food, glassware, dishes etc was something we haven't had for a few years.  The uppers also gave some balance to the kitchen and dining areas. In a matter of a couple hours after installation began we suddenly had a kitchen and dining space that totally transformed our main living area. We will have to add some real color at some point.

Putting the organization plan together for our new look was probably one of Ashley's most favorite activities in a long time.  A plan she had been spinning in her head for months if not years and it worked out great!  Things are put away and it totally transformed a large, white wall that was empty of anything save a refrigerator, vent hood and a stack of some Costco metal storage shelving.  The countertops will stay for a while still.  They have been totally awesome for our needs and if they ain't broke then we won't fix 'em.  The carpenter was also busy in the new apartment space.  Details on that coming.