The Rainy Season has Begun

FINALLY !! It has been cool and gray for the past three days. And it has RAINED!!

We are so happy. It is funny, it does subdue the mood though - it is a kind of a melancholy happiness I feel.

We are having a big birthday party on Sunday for 7 people. So Mikko and I are baking a cake for 50 people, or so. I am having Mikko help me with all the calculations as his math practice.

Today we made a list of about a kajillion kilos of cake ingredients (using lots of math), went to the Commercial ( a US style supermarket,) and bought it all, plus a couple bottles of wine and a ream of paper, planning to take the bus or a cab home whichever came first. As we were checking out, the lights went out and then on, and as we got to the door there was a huge crowd waiting inside because it was POURING outside. We waited a bit but just wanted to get home. We stepped out and I was immediately blinded by all the water POURING down into my eyes and over my glasses. I had this ridiculous notion that we could just step out and get a cab. Unfortunately everyone in Guanajuato had also had that notion a few minutes before I did. We waited for a bus for about a half hour and finally gave up on one coming. An hour and half after leaving the store Mikko and I dragged our sorry soaked through asses over our threshold with our very wet kajillion kilos of flour, eggs, butter, sugar… We had ended up walking back and luckily the funicular was running, though it appeared not to be when we first got there, I was ready to leave our groceries behind and truck up the waterfall that was our callejon.

We have now had hot showers and are each on our computers as Matthew cooks a steak dinner and Ella serenades us. Pretty nice

Ferry from Los Mochis

At around 6:00 we took this bus from los Mochis to the little town that the ferry leaves from. I loved this bus, it was so cozy.

I don’t know why the only ferry was at 11 pm, but it was. The ferry station was a ways away from town or anything else so we just waited out there for hours. There were a lot of others waiting as well, families, college students, and few tourists. It became quite a mob of people by the time the ferry arrived and we loaded.

Everyone immediately staked out places to sleep. There were people under staircases, on the floor in the hallways, on the couches in the bar, and lots of people stretched across the bucket seats. I wish I had gotten more pictures, but it felt invasive, like taking pictures of people in their bedrooms.

We all slept pretty well. I woke up in the wee hours and wandered around on deck. It was surprisingly warm. The air was my new favorite kind of air. It was fresh and wet, in a soft, non cloying way. The air all over Baja is like that. I was digging it.

This pelican greeted us as we disembarked just outside of La Paz. Mikko gives some very edumacational commentary: