After several days of walking and climbing ridiculously steep stairs on the pyramids, we slept in gloriously late today, did laundry and explored the neighborhood. This really is a very cool area. Luke decided to go get our morning rolls at the corner bakery and fresh squeezed orange juice ($1 for about 20 oz) from the old man at the fruit stand on the corner. He's starting to get more comfortable with using his Spanish (yeah!). In the afternoon, we walked about a mile down to a bazaar that was super fun. There's a mixture of food, clothes, electronics, trinkets, and crafts. We bought some great cheese and had an excellent lunch of tortas and tacos. We paid about $1 each for our meal—it really is cheaper than preparing your own food—and had some excellent horchata. |
It's quite interesting to walk through town because most of the small, neighborhood intersections have no stop signs. The major ones do, or they have traffic lights, but only a few have pedestrian crossing signals. You just have to go for it. The traffic circles are even more challenging. At some of them the traffic doesn't just go in one direction around the circles. The lanes (though there are none delineated) will split whatever is in the center of the circle, traffic will go in a completely different direction around the circle with the next light. It's insane. I watched one for a while the other day in the downtown area and couldn't figure out the rules for it.
The owner of the condo stopped by today to see if we needed anything. She's a principal at an elementary school, so we enjoyed talking with her. They're still in school as there are 200 school days in México and only 180 in the US. She was super nice and very helpful. Matt mentioned that the coffee maker didn't work and when we got back from our walk, there was a new one on the table.
Once again we lucked out on the weather. We got back about 5:30 and it started raining just after we got home, so we spent the evening playing Uno and then planning our trip to Cholula and Puebla while the boys watched some comically dubbed television.
The owner of the condo stopped by today to see if we needed anything. She's a principal at an elementary school, so we enjoyed talking with her. They're still in school as there are 200 school days in México and only 180 in the US. She was super nice and very helpful. Matt mentioned that the coffee maker didn't work and when we got back from our walk, there was a new one on the table.
Once again we lucked out on the weather. We got back about 5:30 and it started raining just after we got home, so we spent the evening playing Uno and then planning our trip to Cholula and Puebla while the boys watched some comically dubbed television.