Mexico

For those of you that didn't hear, we made it to Mexico! We had 3 different flights. It was a long day. And with having to put all our stuff in storage the day before, it was a long weekend. We are so very greatful for all our friends in Jeffersonville that helped with the boys and the move. It was the most stress free move I've had.

Our first flight left Louisville at 7 am. We flew to Chicago then to Houston then to Leon and taxied over to Gaunajuato. In Chicago as we were getting on the plane that lady that took our tickets was really rude to us saying we had the wrong tag on our stroller (the stroller is suppose to be left at the door of the plane and they bring it up when the plane lands so that you can have it while at the airport). We we get to Houston and our stroller wasn't there. The pilot was really nice and called for a go cart thing to take us to our next destination. Then we had to take to American Airlines and they said it was going to claims in Houston. WHAT?!! That made me so mad because the lady in Chicago was so rude to us and treated us dumb when it was her that was wrong! Anyways- they said they'd get it and it's be in Mexico waiting for us. Nope! But they did bring it to us the next day. And in Houston for some reason for an hour they couldn't figure out Nathan's passport. They had him as a lap baby under John II not John. So it was a big deal because how could a 3 year old have a lap baby. It took them an hour to figure out to put Nathan under Jenette.

Then we got to the airport in Leon and they just let us out on the pavement and we have to walk in. There were young military everywhere with machine guns. I wasn't really expecting that, so it made me a little nervous. Getting our taxi and finding our house was not a problem.

Our house is the orange on in the back, that's taller than the other buildings. It's three floors. We suppose to live somewhere else but the week before coming the doctor here realized no one was going to be living in the student house and convinced us that we should stay there. I was a little upset about it once we got here because our other place was a lot nicer and closer to town. But we did walk up to that other house, and it's through a pretty scary alleyway, were we saw a group of teenagers that were are pretty sure were doing drugs. So now I'm glad we did switch houses. The neighborhood we live in is really nice. Our flight attendant was from here and said we were in one of the best neighborhoods. I feel safe in the neighborhood. It's really busy and everyone is very friendly. I have actually even gone to town a few times without John.



There is a park in front of our place with a slide. Nathan, whom has always been crazy about the slide at the YMCA in Indiana, asks to go every day.


Here is a view from our tarrece and a video. John says the poorer neighborhoods here and funky smells remind him of Bolivia.



It's been raining a lot the last few days. When it's not raining we've had 80 degree days.

We made it to church. It's bright orange and very beautiful. The inside is all stone and has an awesome view of town. There were about 30 people there. There is 1 sister that speaks English! We have been warned by our flight attendant and the taxi driver that took us there, to be careful because it's in a bad part of town. We did walk home, with is about 5 miles and it was raining. The roads are all stone and steep (more than 45 degree angle). Poor John slipped, he landed on his wrist, which he hurt pretty bad. Just thankful he didn't re-tear his Achilles. Guess we have to be a little more careful.

Town in really cool. There are lot of really old churches. They really take care of their downtown. Dinning out if pretty cheap here, we ate at a really fancy restaurant that would have easily cost more than $100 in the US, but was only around $20 US here and that's with dessert!

A lot of the food they sell here is actually from the US. I thought it was funny, I got some chicken nuggets for the kids, the instructions were in English and they posted a Spanish sticker over it. Baking here is a challenge. I'm used to making most of our food from scratch. Here you can only get little 2 lb bags of flour and 1 lb bags of sugar. They don't have baking powder. Baking soda is bought at the pharmacia. I asked about yeast, and there is one store that has it but is hard to find and comes in a little tiny thing. It's very frustrating to me because I love to bake. So it's been really hard.

Our internet here is hard to get on sometimes because of the over congestion, so I'm not sure how often I'll be updating the blog. I'll try to once a week.