Shopping in Cabo and San Jose

The next two days we were anchored in Cabo San Lucas bay.  There was no pier, so we had to take tender boats ashore.   The first day we shopped till we dropped, first in Cabo and then in San Jose, a town on the eastern side on the Baja peninsula. 


 Our San Jose trip was a paid tour and our  tour guide was very knowledgeable about the geography and history of the area and we learned a lot on the bus ride there and back.  In San Jose we visited a Catholic church and got to see a bride!

Brian bought a nice platter and a rock egg to add to Thomas’s collection.  We also bought Jon a little hand made canoe with incense and little shell candles.  For Katrina we bought a mini Mexican tea set and for Miriam we bought a cow nativity.  Don’t ask me to describe that one.  Okay, okay, you lift up the cow from it’s base, and inside is a little tiny nativity.  Weird.  We toured a church also.  We learned from our tour guide that the area’s artesian wells are running dry and they only get to have fresh running water once a week.  I can’t even imagine that!  This information helped us to feel better about getting fleeced by the vendors.  I guess.  Also that day while we were in Cabo, we bought a dress for Lily.  There were many dresses for sale, but I wanted one that was hand made, not the made in China dresses I saw hanging in every store.  Finally we found a man who had some dresses his wife and mother crocheted.  They were different than any of the other dresses we’d seen, and we bought one.  It’s so cute!