Ixtapa Palace Resort

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The surprising part, at least for me, was that I really enjoyed Monterrey. The city itself is interesting, and we explored several free museums and an interesting park. We also went for a nice long walk along a canal (not clear if this was a natural canal made pretty or a man-made canal). The entire length had been made into a park, where they hold concerts, yoga, have boatrides, whatever. There are also ...

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 were in the city to meet my uncle Packie, who took time out of his busy schedule to show us around and entertain us. It was great to see him and catch up and get to see where he lives and works. He showed us around his schools and we met lots of his friends along the way. We had a few crazy journeys with his mental driving, definitely think he has God as his co ...

... 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 ...

... the weather was not as i expected and rain was everywhere the car was almost under water, this was the 50 year flood that i ever so carefully time to arrive in, The local river was flooded peoples house were underwater and shops were empting out there stores. Meeting the family was sweet, i still wasnt 100percent with my spainish and here they spoke even faster and was tht much harder to understand, and realised who hard it is venturing into another 'world' alone ...

... i seen caves of this size before. we saw stalactites and stalagmites, in one place even the two meeting right in the middle! in one room of the cave there was a hole in the ceiling 200 or so meters up, and below was a stalagmite called the Christmas tree, decorated with lights... it was pretty amazing. Rodolfo, a friend of ours, said that a path that went off from where the guide was guiding us went to a lake inside the ...

... at 8pm until cancun....bad, very bad...Monterrey is pretty much 1000 km away, we check the other flights of the other companies...nothing...we check rental cars for one way....very expensive....

finally we make the mexican way: get in Miguel's car, buy 2 six packs and drive ahead as fast as possible...in the truth that was very cool to drive this landscapes, i could shot the train photo that i really like (see ...

... the end and the only place we could park was in a Holiday Inn car park. They were happy for us to stay there so long as we eat in the restaurant. This morning we drove to the factory again, this time we found out that today is a holiday and so they are not working. This time we got permission to park outside of the security office so still nice and safe. We actually went into the town to do some shopping and just before we got to ...

The logistics manager from the plant we were visiting took us out to the mountains between Saltillo and Monterrey. It was a trip with some interesting adventures;-) - we finally did not make it to the famous Colla de Caballo but the views were really nice and it was lots of fun..