Wacky Wednesday

We woke up to find that there have been three more victims of the walking dead (sick with a cold), the only survivor is Nevin.  Everyone else has sniffles and runny noses.  It was a slow morning until we headed out into the daylight. 

AirBnB house

Outside of our house is a roadside tarp covering a few stools and a portable griddle, where Jesica and andrew got gorditos with beans, cactus, marinated pork, and potatoes all for under 2 dollars.  

Great street food

Nevin likes to take panoramic pictures

After coffee we unsuccessfully searched for cheese pizza but instead andrew settled for pozole, a hominy soup w chicken, lettuce, radishes and onions. 

Pozole!!!!

Wacky house

Diego Riveras childhood home

Wandering

We wandered the streets for the morning before heading to San Miguel de Allende a hour away. We arrived late around 7 and all of our attempts to get a Airbnb failed so we scrambled and found a place on the main cobblestone avenida near a curve in the road.  In a hurry we booked it.  The front room is less than 20' from the road and big city buses just slow down to make the curve, just like home in New Orleans.  Over the din of traffic, literally having to pause midsentence to let trucks pass, we hurried out to get dinner.

San Miguel de Allende has a huge expat community and the prices reflect it.  The hotel across the street was $175US.  Prices for dinner in the square were 3x what we have been getting for meals. Usually we can all eat for roughly 10-15$. But here the prices per dish are 20$.  We finally find a pizza place and order a half cheese half margherita.  When the pizza arrived the waiter asked if we want "ketchup!?!!"  We declined. 

Observations: Jesica noticed that we haven't seen any breastfeeding mothers but we have seen what we assume are babies wrapped in huge bundles of blankets so thick that there are no visible signs of a child.  

We also see huge crowds of kids in school uniforms around midday and then again in the evening. When we asked and found out that the schools are taught in two sessions one starts at 7am-1pm and a second session from 3pm-8pm.  I hope the teachers don't have to teach 12 hr/day.