Oct 18 - Birthday Party and Guanajuato

Here at the end of the first third of our six weeks and, as you are reading, we do and see mucho. We celebrated our good friend Eunice's birthday with a surprise party at our (at the moment) house (thanks Bob and Jamie)! We met Eunice last year - she is a very talented artist who paints, makes jewelry, makes metal framed pictures, draws on wood, has painted many murals on all the walls of her home and is one great person and only 82 years young. The other person in the picture is Kathy - she was the friend who traded houses with us last year. So many of you who visited us were at her home when she was not there.

Then, with Marni, we traveled by bus to the city of Guanajuato, which is the capital of the state of Guanajuato where San Miguel de Allende lies. As you can see it looks different than most other cities, partly because there are many roads which go underground which were made from the old silver mines. This two week time in October is the Cervantino Festival, honoring Cervantes and Don Quixote. There are many music and art venues drawing thousands of people and we were glad to be a part of it. We found many interesting art exhibits and had a delicious meal in our favorite restaurant on the jardin.

Tomorrow starts my focus on Spanish - taking a 2 1/2 week class on Power Verbs (3 x/week) so I hope this gives me the start I need to begin to learn to speak spanish.

Buenos tardes y buenos noches.