Hotel Salmones Jalapa

... due to its age. <br><br>As we walked through the market, we went by a park that had a bunch of those battery-operated cars that little kids can drive. They were just sitting there.... waiting to be used.<br><br>Camden and Hallie would have been in heaven!<br><br>After the market, we visited some absolutely beautiful churches in Puebla. Wow. They were so beautiful. One of the churches that we visited was of Saint Francisco. I felt a little obtrusive taking pictures of the ...

... story books, stuffed animals, and positive words on the walls; a perfect place to teach!<br><br>Our first group was brought in at 10:30 a.m. and we started right away with the activity. We asked 6 questions, asked them to "take a stand" and then talked about each question.<br><br>Apparently we had gone about this the wrong way. I'm not sure anyone in our first group said a word. They looked very scared and when I tried to give one little boy a high five, he ...

... 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.<br><br>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 ...

... and antique furnishings. They have the choice of smoking or non smoking rooms and the manager speaks fluent English. Their current rates were 2100 peso for a suite and 1750 peso for a standard room. <br><br>Hotel Posada San Pedro, 2 Oriente No. 202, Tel: 01 (222) 891 5700, Web: www.hotelposadasanpedro.com.mx . This fine hotel offered numerous rates and packages, so best to take a look at their website for current rates.<br><br>

... music the next night, also loads of fun, saw some of our friends from the bike ride there, people here in Xalapa are really friendly. Last saterday Pablo and I went to Coatopec for the day, rather uneventful except I can say I now have tried brain. This really nice Siñora talked me into trying sesos, pig brain empenadas , it was interesting to say the least. After that Pablo and I went to check out the ...

... Sunday morning bike ride, this was my favorite person though, his parrot goes on bike rides with him, . We split into 2 groups (unfortunately the parrot guy went with the other group) and about 20 people, including Byron, Pablo, y yo went a backway to Xico, a 4 hour ride on backroads, singletrack trails and steep hills journey from Xalapa, we also stopped a lot to let eveyone catch up as the skill level of the group ...

... up ordering the Jamacia water because I was very thirsty and it was lighter, but i intend to have the other also at a different time. The second thing i had was molotes. This was yummy also. It was really cool to watch the lady make it and then immediatly eat it. I watched the lady take the dough from a pile and put a little back (she does this everytime, we are not sure why) press it flat with a pressing tool and fill ...

... were going to take a movie poster from the streets. I was thinking poster advertisment like on a bulliten board that could be easily swiped, rolled up and put away...i was wrong. this sign for the movie was hanging on a light located on a medain between lanes of traffic. There was little traffic because it was late at night but the "poster" was Big...i did not realize how big until they got to the car with it and it hung off all 4 sides of the roof ...

... most Murrains (most of whom have fincas that bring in a lot of money from the coffee). Many from this group themselves noted that the Murrains didn't seem to understand that the things they were giving out had been saved up for over a year and people worked very hard to bring these things here. And of course, this group was all light colored in skin so the "gringo" giving things away was all the more reinforced. The sad part is they had a few things stolen and I think that ...

Hola!!! Well we made it here safe and sound after an interesting experience with United Airlines and a long wait in the queues at LAX! We're now recovering from the jet lag which wiped us out a bit. Mexico City is loud, colourful, dirty, fascinating and frantic! It really is so different to anything we have ever encountered before. We're enjoying ourselves immensely so far! Yesterday we spent the day ...