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.