Fiesta Americana Ctr Monterrey

... water fountians of different shapes and sizes along the way. It ended in a large park dedicated to the steel industry. Sounds ugly, but there were more free museums, and it was actually pretty (except for the large furnace stacks). <br><br>Heading back to the bus stop, and thinking we perhaps should have booked an earlier bus out of town, we started poking around looking for a resturant for dinner. Oddly enough, all the ...

The whole stay here has just been strange. The first morning here I preached in a church - in spanish! First time since 2006! Even though I took out my guages and put in clear spacers, they asked me to take them out, as well as my eyebrow ring. They said I need to be "all things to all men" although that is not what it is talking about. The ministry gave us a nice little apartment for 5 days (full of cockroaches) in a ...

I am sitting here in the middle of Monterrey, Mexico. There is an air conditioner to my right and a clock ticking away to my left. All I can think about at this time is, "This is not what we came here for". <br> Rob is downstairs, having a meeting with the ministry whose base we are currently staying on. We arrived to the border of Mexico on Saturday morning. Starting at the Brownsville border, we bussed four and a half ...

We spent a great 5 days in Monterrey. A really lovely city, different to what we expected. Its an industrial town so we expected factories etc but they are all in the suburbs. The city is suurounded by a beautiful backdrop of mountains that the locals are very proud of and very much represent their city. However, the best thing about Monterrey was the people we met. Of ...

... most of the other people were wearing t-shirts and jeans. Got through immigration and customs, which took so long that both my baggage and I almost didn't make it to Monterrey on time. Thank God we did. Monterrey is breaktakingly beautiful. It is surrounded by the mountains, la Sierra Madre. Everywhere you look, there are mountains. You can also easily see the influence from its northern neighbor. Just about everything ...

... its now been three weeks here with my new family in monterrey/sabinas and im loving it! each day its the same, i come home from going out and they greet me in spainish and i smile to myself haha its good. The other day i go to school for half a week to see what it was like, wow! i need to learn spainish, its everywhere and i cant handle not knowing what ppl are saying to me, its so hard in every way! i just get run down mentally jaja like im "drowning in spainish" hahaha

Hey! I'm back by popular request, to make an update to my travel blog. well it's been a fantastic couple of weeks. I'm looking forwards to tonight because it's Mexican Independence day and tonight will be a fantastic party. my classes were canceled due to the rain and the holiday I'm sure (i got there, and no lights were on!) yesterday we went to Grutas de Garcia. now... I've been cave spelunking on Vancouver island, but never ...

Well... I finally arrived. It's the last time I'll ever take a red-eye flight after drinking with friends and my father at the airport :P Tequila is fun, not before a flight. ha. Then of course, I assume that a shot of whisky straight up will put me to sleep, but god was I ever wrong. lol. finally, i am here! Monterrey is gorgeous .. Marichu even more. we met at the airport ...

Wonderful to see big Jon's smiling face at the airport. Elias and Myrna Valdez also were here to meet us. Jon had just arrived from Houston. Monterrey is a sprawling city of 3.5 million. third largest in Mexico, but by far th most advanced. A 45 minute drive takes us to the home and convention grounds. Very special to have a night with Elias &amp; Myrna, and her sister Angelita who lives with them, plus E. &amp; M.'s ...

... with Luisa and Ricardo in tow on the Friday. We were due to stay the weekend with one of Luisa´s friend Farah. There, we mainly socialized. On the Friday night, we went out in a little city near Monterrey called San Pedro, which is the hometown of the wealthiest people in Mexico and possibly the Americas. We waited thirty minutes to get into "thee" pub (I HATE QUEUING!)and in the end, we only got in on the promise that "we were Irish and would drink a lot." It was a nice ...