Saturday at the lake

The day after getting home we went out to Presa Mata to swim with our friend, Mary and her son Seamus. Matthew and the boys stayed and camped that night, while the moms got voted off the island and went back into town to do grown-up mom things.

The water has gone down a lot since January when we were there last. And it has warmed up considerably. It was the perfect temperature that completely cools you off, but you can stay in and play for a while.

These lovelies were on the side of the road as Mary and I walked home.

pacemaker…

Twice, there were metal detectors in the bus stations that we had to walk through.  Both times I remembered (always at the last minute - same thing flying down from Tijuana,) that I can’t go through those with my pacemaker.  Luckily it was hot and I was wearing tops that made showing my scar easy.  At the first one the fellow let me walk through the second metal detector that was turned off.  The second one, the woman just laughed like I was crazy and said it wasn’t on and had me walk through.  Both times I got my little card out but they never looked at it.  The scar was evidence enough, I guess.

Last stop, Puebla

We left Veracruz and headed for Puebla to break up the ride back to Guanajuato. Matthew and Mikko and all spent a month there when Mikko was 2. The centro is very sweet and beautiful, old and colonial, as you walk past the centro you get that mix of architecture that I talked about in Veracruz, (but didn’t get any good pix of it here either.)

We were just there overnight, so didn’t wander far. We stayed on the zocolo again. There was a band playing when we arrived.

One of the nice things about Puebla, is they have a pedestrian street where much of the downtown type shopping stores are. AND it rains.

It poured down rain, and I found a cafe that we used to go to when we were there 6 years ago. We called it Michelle’s cafe because there was a little girl named Michelle who was always there and was Mikko’s age. They played together a number of times while we were eating our delicious enchiladas and chiles enogadas. When we got there this time, there was an 8ish year old girl holding court at the center table, doing magic tricks with her hands, amusing all of the adults around. I went to email Matthew and Mikko and unfortunately she and her parents left while I was gone, but I know it was Michelle.

It was just drizzling when we headed back to the hotel where we sat outside and had some drinks and PLAYED CARDS. There is nothing better than a good drizzle, a drink and a card game. Tom hadn’t played cards in a while, notice how hard he is concentrating.

We left early the next morning and were back in Guanajuato in time for Mikko and I to have our traditional Friday movie night.