Castelo Boca del Rio

... I'll have to come back some day :)

What a wonderful way to spend the final day in Puebla! Tomorrow we head to Mexico City, the final city on our Mexican tour. We are stopping at the President's estate on the way! We received an official invitation to visit. What an honor!

Better get some beauty sleep before meeting the President of Mexico!

Cross your fingers that I will have internet tomorrow so that these blogs can continue :)

Much love,
Megan

... children and were part of the "village" that is working to mold them into wonderful people.

After the last 2 groups, we rode back to our facility for education time and then went back to our host family's home for the night.

Friday was our performance day. My first performance in Mexico! I was so excited! We had a pretty good crowd and I was able to play 4 songs on the piano as I worked myself back into performing with the cast. They whole ...

... Ronja and I have our own room and they even moved a television in our room for us. How nice of them! She has two cats - one is big and black and the other is a golden, playful kitten.

Tuesday was our first full day in Puebla - Regional Learning Day. It was an awesome day! We were split into 2 groups and my group went a tour of Puebla first. Traveling in a double decker bus, we rode around the beautiful city of Puebla. It is so gorgeous here - the buildings have so much color ...

Accommodation

Whilst here I stayed at Hotel Reforma 2000, 4 Poniente No. 916, on the corner of 11 Norte, Tel. 01 (222) 242 3363, Web: www.hotelreforma2000.com . Their current rates were 200, 250 peso for 1 or 2 persons and 350 + 400 peso for 2, 3 or 4 persons in a room with 2 double beds. This good value budget hotel is set over 3 floors around a pleasant colonial style courtyard. The carpeted rooms with en-suite and cable ...

... from my sister´s closet before leaving. Next day was my birthday and I was approporiately serenaded with Las Mañanitas at midnight and hugged and congratulated by my new adopted relatives. The day itself coincided with Margot´s hen night which was unlike any I´d ever experienced in Europe....or that they´d experienced in cosmopolitan Mexico City, the girls whisperedly assured me. Sinaloan hen nights- not a chippendale or plastic ...

... have made the park home. it was vey funny to see then sitting on the miniature buildings, like godzilla but birds....hee-hee...i have pictures of it. Today i had real curros!! they are definatly different than at camp, i liked them alot. I also tried another new soda, it was grape flavored. But not the normal artificial flavored grape soda we have, it was natural grape, so it had a flavor closer to wine than soda. Also many times there are clowns or steet preformers in the ...

... for the first time and will be there to help out and spend time with the new baby. Lili's father is second to leave in about in about a month, then Lili and her brother will leave a few days after I return home. They will all stay through the holidays and return home together around the second week in January. Today I experienced two new "booth foods." First was a juice/water stand were i sampled two types of drinks. 1 ...

Happy Birthday Lili!! Today I got to meet many more of Lili's friends, they all came over for dinner to celebrate. Dinner was very good: we had a rice and vegetable mixture and bbq steak. At dinner i also tried a new soda, it was tuti-friuty flavored, i liked it! Durring dinner all of her friend made "presentations" of themselves to me in english, it was very nice and made me feel very welcome. They told me thier name and nickname, age, job, what they ...

... we were dinged with two passenger charges at $700 pesos ($70 USD) each. We paid $240 USD, which was less than our guide book told us to expect. We still call it a deal! And again our little 'Herbie of the RV world' was able to fly under the radar and not be considered a motor home. We waited in the ferry parking lot for an hour or so before we were called to board. The ferries in the Baja are nothing like the ones at home. For those familiar with BC Ferries, the process in ...

... to BusFusion. We spend the rest of the day exploring Cholula. Being the first day of spring there are huge celebrations going on here and most everywhere in Mexico. We visit a church high atop a hill which is built on an ancient pyramid. As if we are not already high enough we climb to the top to visit. Back down through the throngs of people, some shopping then back to our camp. In the morning we are off again to the North toward Guanajuato. Hasta luego amigos !