Feista Friday

Normal family

Guanajuato is smack dab in the middle of Mexico in purple

We left New Orleans on Friday at midday.  Fortunately Jesica insisted we leave early so we arrived 2 hrs before the flight.  We were made to speak to a Special Services (see angry customer line) rep at the ticket counter bc apparently they had to verify the identity of the baby for a international flight and that costed 87$.  Thanks Delta.

Long plane ride

Very long 

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We flew to Atlanta then on to Leon, Mexico and arrived at 8pm.  We have learned that traveling with kids adds 30 minutes to most processes but Nevin is a huge help and everything went smoothly through immigration and customs where we got our first stamps in our passports!!!  We had rented a car that we were quoted a price on the phone of $16 for the week!!!! The agent said you should purchase insurance and at $45/day the price wasn't as attractive.  We drive to the city of Leon 40 minutes away excited from the new sights, smells, and sounds of MEXICO!!!!

Jesica has Sprint which offers free international phone plans, so we were very surprised when it didn't connect to the network here.  Instead we were time warped into a begone era of 1990 where we had to rely on a map to navigate w my copilot Nevin.  Nevin and I went to the supermercado for some waters, bread, bananas and snackers for late dinner.  Success!!

We find the Airbnb house with a little trouble but it's a spacious villa overlooking a park in the posh side of town.  The decorations are a little dated but we surmise it's the girl's grandparents house that have passed; lots of old painted portraits, couch covers, and doilies.  Best part is the huge rooftop patio that looks over the city park where Jesica saw a hummingbird that she swears was the one she released at the hummingbird festival in Louisiana.  Apparently they got really close in the moments before she let him go and they made a connection.