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Quinceañera and sandwichon – 2 firsts for me

I mentioned that we had a very late night on Saturday and that I had some bad iPhone pics to share. About the phone pics, I have realized that I need to get a smaller camera. I just don’t carry my big camera with me as much as I wish and even when I [...]

the last day of the fair

Mimi and I meant to go to the month long state fair again this year but it didn’t happen. We got up late today because we had a late night last night, that’s another blog post and a bunch more bad iphone pics. We’re having a lazy Sunday morning, drinking coffee, when we see [...]

Paseo de las Ánimas

Every year during Hanal Pixán, the Mayan name for the traditional Day of the Dead celebrations, they close Calle 66 one night from the church at La Ermita to the cemetery – about 10 or 12 blocks.  City departments, schools, people who live along the street and other groups build traditional altars in the [...]

Dura Dura*

So, you already know that I’m addicted to a telenovela and watch it every night.  Thus, I also watch a LOT of commercials during the hour it is on.  There’s good and bad to how they do commercials here.  The break for commercials is incredibly long, so long that sometimes they show the same [...]

¡Viva México!

Juan Gabriel at the Monumento de la Patria, Mérida (Diario de Yucatán)

So tonight saw Mimi and I walking to the central plaza and then catching a cab to the Paseo Montejo for the ¡Grito! celebrating 200 years of liberation from colonial Spain. What a crowd! We didn’t leave the house until our [...]

la migra

Here’s some good advice: don’t lose your FM3, or any other visa for that matter. It’s not easy to get it replaced although I was kind of surprised at how easily we got through it. Mimi called me her hero! Heh! Can you guess that it was not me that lost her visa but [...]

Estrellas del Bicentenario

I’ve been enthralled by the videos released by Televisa over the last few months in honor of the Bicentennial.  They are a montage from each state in the Republic and while all of them are gorgeous, I will show my bias and say that I most love those from the southern states.  Truly, the [...]