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Published: November 30th 2013
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I can’t believe that we have already been in Mexico one full month. The time is flying quickly.
We went to the Wednesday market which has now become a weekly routine. The fruits and vegetables are always very fresh and less expensive then the grocery store. This week, I also purchased some chicken from one of the venders as it was highly recommended by a friend.
After the market we stopped at Walmart and picked up a few things, the most important being lights for the Christmas tree.
At happy hour today we learned that Jorge has changed his mind about the tree we cut down the other day. He is going to use it for a large nativity scene he will set up but he wants to find a more Canadian style tree for Christmas.
Today, Thursday November 28 is the American Thanksgiving. We had a relaxing day then went for a wonderful Turkey dinner at Armando’s Restaurant with our ex-cruising Canadian friends, Wendy and Lorne. We were joined by some Americans, Mike and Maryann, who made it a nice size table for celebrations. The restaurant served the real thing, cooked to perfection with stuffing, gravy,
sweet potatoes and mashed.
When we left the restaurant we went to another ex-cruising friend’s house. Dona and Michael are Americans and they had invited the whole neighbourhood to their house for a Thanksgiving after dinner party. Everyone was gathered inside and outside of the house. There were Mexican clay fire pots with logs burning outside and because the house was wide open, the fireplace was on indoors. The evenings are very cool and the fires did a nice job of taking the chill out of the air.
It was only 8:00PM and the buses were still running but Wendy and Lorne offered to drive us home. We had them instead drop us off at Mirasol which is a gated community near us. We easily walked home from there. The Mirasol roads are interlocking brick rather than the large cobblestones and although we can walk through there, Lorne would not have been able to drive through. The other route to our place is the stone roads and with four of us in his car, it scrapes the stones at times.
Friday morning, Rick and I both had an appointment at the Mayan Spa. He had a haircut
and I went for a mani-pedi. Even though I chose the regular mani-pedi it lasted 1 ½ hours and included a reflexology massage. I might go for the deluxe spa version next time and see what I get with that.
The total price for both of us came to $28CAD and we were very pleased with the service.
We walked home from the spa, stopped at Dominos pizza for lunch and made it back in time for a quick siesta.
Kateri who is one of our neighbours is also one of the owners of El Piano Rojo Bar in Ajijic. She had mentioned that the Judy show currently performing there was a riot and we should try to attend. So we arranged with our other neighbours and eight of us headed out to the 5PM show. This sounds like a weird time for a show to begin in a bar but in Ajijic, the buses and taxis all stop running after 9PM. This time however we had Jorge coming along with us and he was driving. Eight people won’t fit in one car. Jorge’s regular phrases,” Don’t Worry and No Problem” held true. He has two cars,
so he just passed the keys to Ricardo, another neighbour. We had Marci and Neil (Neil’s wheelchair), Jorge, Rick and me in the one car. Ricardo and Maryann drove the other car.
The Judy Show was a lot of fun and the impersonations included Judy Garland, Carol Channing, Bette Davis mainly, but there were others as well. Near the end of the evening, Judy sang a version of “Ring those Bells” with a few people she had brought on stage. Our quite reserved neighbour Ricardo was one of the people chosen. The aim of the game was to take turns playing the tambourine in the sexiest way they could. The winner, chosen by the audience would win a CD. Well, Ricardo has us all in stitches laughing. A different personality took over when he got on that stage. Needless to say, he was the winner.
Before we headed home, Kateri unlocked and opened her other business for me “K'asbah Bon Vivants” as I had yet to visit her store. It is a chocolate, wine and gift shop. Since we were in the store and I had not tasted Mexican Chocolate, I had to buy some. We
love Grenada Chocolate and I have been told that Mexican Chocolate is very good s well. What I purchased was Mexican chocolate made in a Belgium style.
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Ali
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Mostly Chocolate correction
The Shop you visited is called the Casbah. Mostly Chocolate is on Constitution and owned by Marcella Monroy.