On our last day we did a bunch more walking around town again. We started noticing that we were the only ones walking around with light sweaters. Even in the early morning, it was still only like 65 degrees out. Yet, for some reason everyone was walking around like it was snowing!
Check out this kid...
His mom was actually dressed in a puffy down jacket with ear muffs. Really? It's 65* people! Maybe you need a light sweater but it was around 10am and quickly getting warmer but the ridiculous winter gear remained all day.
During our walk that day, we finally found the only mail box in all of Mexico. [12/20 edit: we're still not sure if our postcards ever made it to the recipients!]
We also finally got some decent shots of Steven standing on his birthday street. Steven's birthday is also Mexican Independence day.
Steven also got a better video of the street crossing signs. This video better illustrates how the walking man goes faster and faster as time counts down.
We thought we were used to the things the locals found entertaining. But then we came across this...
Hide your kids, people. That is a creepy, smoking, singing, robot clown who will probably kill you in your sleep.
We could have created a whole blog based on how often people ignore safety laws. But here are a few snap shots of one building under construction.
We saw people standing at the top of a ladder that was roped together to another ladder to get extra height and a guy running a power tool by touching two raw wires together. Crazy!
We made one final trip to the fabric store and Steven realized that he never got any pics of what fabric stores in Mexico are like. I'm not sure if we mentioned before but there is a large fabric store every few blocks in the city center area at least.
I'm like a kid at a candy store!
Well after all of that walking, we picked up our luggage from the hotel storage and headed to the airport. Our taxi driver was INSANE. He was very heavy on the horn and has absolutely no patience for traffic. To him, driving on sidewalks, or on the wrong side of the street, or driving over center dividers is totally a legit way to get around. We made it to the airport in one piece though. After paying him though, we still had a couple of bucks left which we decided to blow on some airport shopping. So Steven walked up to the register and the guy rang us up and the total came out to exact change of what we has left. It was the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me.
I am actually excited to get back home. It was a fun and mostly relaxing
trip but there is no place like home. I look forward to not having to try and
figure out the money exchange in my head for every purchase or make a fool of
myself speaking what must sound like cave man Spanish mixed with a little mime.
And as much as I hate our old mattress at home, I do still miss my own bed. And
Bowie, my little Bowie! He must miss us so much.
We are also coming home to some possible damage to our
house. Our neighbor said that all of our roofs suffered some damage in the
recent wind storm. We found out about the wind storm when Steven’s phone was
going crazy from Oxy alerts in the middle of the night. When we woke up we read
in the news about the fire at Oxy and the power outages everywhere. LAX
apparently lost power for over an hour and flights are still being delayed. My
work at Art Center College was actually closed for the whole day since the
roads left the campus inaccessible due to fallen debris and all of those old
trees around were still a threat while the winds persisted.
We'll see when we get back home!
[12/20 note: the above text was written at the airport so you obviously know how our house fared]
We'll see when we get back home!
[12/20 note: the above text was written at the airport so you obviously know how our house fared]
No comments:
Post a Comment