Weekend fun, mostly in the sun

Oh my gosh, it's getting so hot. It is like 79 degrees...my kids complained. In fairness there is more humidity coming in and it has been much colder than usual so we've had ONLY balmy 72-74 days recently. Lord they may die once it gets over 80 degrees and 100% humidity. That may be by the end of the week...we may be coming home sooner? So kids have finished week 1 of Spanish class. May I introduce you to Gabriela Ines Castillo Ortega and Josue Salvador Castillo Ortego. For those that don't know Castillo would represent the father's last name. Ortega the mom's last name. I forgot that once upon a time I was Spanish. Oh wait, this is pretend. They are in a class with three Mexican girls who are learning English. The girls "American" names are Heather, Charlotte and Amanda and they are cute as buttons and know way more English than I do Spanish, even more so than the kids. This last week Gabriela y Josue learned very important words: tos, eruptar, llorar, pestañar, hipo, hechar pido and more. Haha..look them up...you too can learn! They also had to listen to Shakira and learn about shaking their "hips". I wish my HS Spanish Teacher taught me this type of Spanish. They will take Spanish for 5 weeks, so let's see what happens. Josue can at least tell someone to stop w/the erupta.

They also started a little embrodery class in a neighboring town. On Friday nights we drive 15 minutes to go ahead in time. Time really does fly when you are having fun but wait, when IS dinner time? Lo De Marcos, a neighboring town, is an hour ahead of us. Wow that is a trip and takes so much planning! We meet Ale in the plaza around 3:30 and learn with other kids how to embroder sweet little things. I can almost see Etta in her 20's living off of her embrodery skills on some Mexican beach. One can have high hopes.

Our first weekend without papi was spent trying to find and learn about pineapples (pina's). So we packed up and drove to the fields. Guayabitos, where we are, is surrounded by pina fields so my instint was just to find some guys picking pina's and try and buy some off of them. That didn't go exactly as planned. I did drive around. And I did find some guys working but they were planting, not picking. Imagine what they thought when they saw me driving around the farm and then coming up to them? Fun fact: it takes 2 years to get a pina to mature for picking. Wait, what? We should be paying like a $1000 for those things. While I asked where I could find some to buy no-one could quite answer. Boohoo. They told me to find a store. Haha. Right. The crazy American lady w/her two kids should just go to the store. Point taken. I went to a roadside stand.

We also spent Sunday the traditional way. At a beach, eating breakfast and swimming. This time we headed North to Chacala, a place we've been to a couple of times in the past. Josue was 9 months the first time and ate lots of tropical fruit baby food and sand. Thankfully this time he only had crepes con chocolate y fruita. And Etta, hotcakes con canela glasado y fruita. Momma...she had the chiliqulas con huevos. And moka. And filmed the sailboats coming and going to remind her husband that in his midlife crisis years he can sail a boat down. Maybe we are already in our mid-life crisis years, I mean if any year is a crisis, it might very well be this one?

Kids spent the morning swimming while I did the mom thing, kinda watched to make sure they didn't drown while really shopping for earrnings with some Huichol craft people. I got so many lovely things as I try and help support - if you are looking for any kinds of presents let me know I can hook you up. I've got room to bring home jewlery! I say this truthfully!

But now we are back to the grind; full time School, Spanish classes, art classes, Julietta, Girl Scout meeting, School meetings, I may as well be at home. I'm just not under the watchful eye of the Iguana that lives in our roof. 'Till the next time. Mucho amor.