Hampton Inn Monterrey Apt

... 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 ...

... to get here. When we arrived, there was a Mexican woman cleaning the base. I have to admit, when I saw how "Americanized" it was - you know, with air conditioning, electricity, wireless internet access, I was a bit dissappointed. We went to sleep and woke up on Sunday morning feelin fully rested. Rob was nervous about preaching in Spanish and had only a couple of hours to be ready. So we spent our time praying an preparing ...

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 ...

... d want from the States is here - Chili's, Applebees, Office Max, Office Depot, FedEx, Wal-Mart, HEB, you name it... Also, about half of the TV channels on cable are from the United States. Some are dubbed and some are subtitled. They say that most travelers going abroad for an extended period of time experience culture shock: (1) the honeymoon phase, where you're excited and curious, (2) disintegration, where you experience ...

Arriving at the airport!! ahh freaking out still not knowing if my friend was going to be there waiting for me. I was an hour later then nwhat i orginally was going to be so there could have been any chance that no one was at the airport waiting for me. Picking up my bag off the machine, while keeping every eye out for my amigo, looking looking jaja Ahhhhh Yay!! :D i see him im happy now. Driving from the airport in monterrey to sabinas a small townlike 3hours away way ...

... apparently the tour changes depending on how much water is present in the caves, or how the rocks are. it was slippery in some places but mostly it was just covered in concrete paths. Saturday was fun! we went to Texas to buy clothes. apparently Texas is the cheapest place to buy clothes, with Monterrey having prices as much as double. i got a haircut too. it was such a strange feeling to finally once again feel like i ...

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 ...

... The daughter Elizbeth is an aspiring architect who is doing her practicum at the university), olde Monterrey, Santa Lucia Riverwalk , Capital buildings, lookout points, etc. Lunch is the highlight of today. It is Myrna birthday, so we go to the famous El Rey del Cabritos (king of the baby goat) restaurant. It is world renowned for this very typical monterrey dish. That afternoon, they took us over to Jaime &amp ...

... and paid 20 pesos ($2 US) to go 4 blocks. Jose (my landlord) is awesome (and speaks english.. wonderful!) - he carried my bags up the steep staircase to my little home (in the pictures). Then it was off again to the campus tour, of which I only finished half before myself and a student from wisconsin escaped to Wal-Mart. Then it was back home before the group dinner at a local ...