San Jorge Hotel Saltillo

Today is Thanksgiving and I have many things to be thankful for!! I am not celebrating in the traditional way this year since i am in Mexico, but everyone is in my thoughts and prayers. I am missing a few things spacifically: *Special time and game playing with wonderful family. *Sweet potatoes at grandma & grandpa Sheltons. *Green beans at grandma & grandpa Schroers. *Being the Ice cube girl. But as i said i do have many things to be thankful for ...

... being sick) and only concentrating on that one thing. At one point i remember thinking my time could be better used posting here since i was behind, but I just kept watching (sound familure...like at home on the TiVo) and after i was really glad i rested because i fell much better now...and the entries may not have made much sense anyhow, being that i was both tired and not feeling well.

... them up and they would both fall until finally one came to and flopped over to the other and was pecking at it while it just lay there, but you could see it was still breathing. Like i said it was not good because the loosing chicken lost more than the match if you know what i mean, but it was not aweful, but i didn't watch really close either. And i thought poeple would be like screaming and cheering and really into it but they really weren't, except ...

Today we visited a place i have been looking forward to going to Cholula. Here there is a large pyramid totally underground, covered by a hill of dirt with a church sittting on top of it. I had read about it in my book and the internet and wanted to go and then a week or so a go i saw it when we were walking around and got even more excited about it. When we arrived we went inside the pyramid first. You could walk through a "small ...

... didnt think about panda being the spanish word for bear. but it was okay i still enjoyed what i saw a lot including: tucans, big parrots, tortises of all sizes - babies to huge!, leamer monkeys, red bear, alligators, large rodents that were not ground hogs or the little things we have at our zoo, squirrls (it was funny i couldnt read the signs and all i saw in the one exibit was a squirrl, i found it funny that they would put it on display, but then ...

... BUT...when i went to look at them most of them did not show thumbnail images when i clicked on them. We figured something had happened when we moved them from the desktop to Lili's laptop so he went downstairs to check there...but it was the same. AND to turn this minor inconvenience a disaster I had deleted them off my memory card, because it forced me to reformat the card when i placed it back in...so...unless we can figure out how to open the files all those pictures are ...

... the state. From there we went to the Cathedral of Santiago.This was started in 1745 and it dominates the rather impressive plaza. The entrance portal is covered in "Churrigueresque figures and elaborately carved columns of pale grey stone. It is reputedly one of the finest in Mexico. Inside the transepts are full of gilt ornamentation and at the very top of the dome you can just make out a human figure looking down the aisle ...

... and I held it most of the time. If it started crying too much people would give it back to me because it had gotten attached but I eventually told them I wouldn't take it anymore because I was getting too attached. My family couldn't take another cat so Becka took it home in hopes that she could find a home for it. This evening I was studying for a Spanish quiz tomorrow and for the test on Thursday and my 15 year old cousin came by. We talked for a while as we watched ...

... for another $50 or so. Not bad. But 1) I didn't know where I was going to go to school yet, and 2) I didn't really want to spend $100. So I had been watching Craig's List. It's a web site with a ride-share board and you can get virtually anywhere if you're willing to catch a ride with whomever might be going your way. I had posted that I was looking for a ride to Mexico, that I would help drive, but that I didn't have much money. Oddly, I got no ...

It was my first time ever in Mexico and I was very excited for this trip. I spent two weeks in a quite industrial city - Saltillo - located in the north of the country, surrounded by the Coahuilla desert. I arrived via Newark and Houston on Saturday evening, rented a car and drove a bit around. My stay for work there was two weeks ...