Sheryl Update

I am so far behind with my posts. My parents visited over a week ago. We had a great time with them.

One of the highlights was going to Uxamel which is a really amazing Mayan ruin. It’s not only a giant pyramid, but also other buildings and squares.

We also went to a small museum that had an optical illusion exhibit.

This optical illusion was so weird it was hard to even stand without falling over.

Back at our apartment I was going to make my parents a fresh juice but had a crazy hot flash and had to lie down. So they ended up making me juice.

Afterwards we played one of several intense Rummikub games.

We went out for traditional tacos.

And also to a fancy restaurant in a restored house.

Only Jeff climbed to the top of the tower.

It was another wonderful visit with them.

I’m really behind on posting. First let me say we, are very far away from the violence in Mexico. And my parents are here visiting us. But I’m so behind I first want to post about last week’s trip to Mexico City.

We saw two neighborhoods that we hadn’t seen before. This was a park in the Condesa neighborhood. We loved this neighborhood.

The first day I had to eat low/no carb since I had to get a PET scan. Once the test was over I more than made up for it.

The above were mole breakfast enchiladas.

I could have eaten these giant pork rinds when I was low carb

A little cup of bugs, also has very few carbs. I didn’t eat either of these things. One of the restaurants we went to had an explanation of ancient foods. Below it talks about both bugs and worms. Yum.

After carbing up we went back to the Anthropology Museum. We’ve been there before but it’s so big we only got through the Mayan part last time. This time we saw the Aztec exhibit.

Head massage with toes.

Skulls with fancy hair.

“Who wants corn.”

“I’ll take one for each of my many hands.”

Fancy Aztec underwear.

Jeff happy to see Aztec stuff and happy I’m back to eating carbs and not grumpy.

This was from a few weeks ago, but I forgot to post it. There was a really cool art installation in the center of Mérida

The pieces were scattered in different squares so it was a good walk around town to see them.

Some we liked more than others.

One made Jeff purple.

Then there was this church. It wasn’t part of the exhibit, but still lit up nicely.

And of course I still like doors even at night.

We haven’t seen our friends Clive and Steve for several weeks, so we were thrilled to see then this weekend.

On Saturday we had hummus, wine and a photo shoot on our roof then went to dinner.

At dinner they pulled out my new favorite thing, little lights that change color.

Seriously, how cool! At dinner we discussed going on a day trip to see wild flamingos one day in the next few weeks.

On Sunday we were excited to watch the Seahawks play and see the halftime show with Bad Bunny.

Even though Clive and Steve are not Seahawks fans and the bar was super loud they met us and brought flamingo napkins!!! They had turkey napkins for Thanksgiving, Christmas napkins and now flamingo napkins!!

And the lights which they made Seahawks colors.

We were at huge sports bar. Bad Bunny was definitely the main event.

None of the four of us knew any of the lyrics but we didn’t need to. It was fun to watch.

The crowd at the bar knew all the words.

Watching the excitement of the crowd was really fun. When Bad Bunny named off all the countries in the Americas and got to Mexico the crowd in the bar erupted in cheers.

And of course when the Seahawks won were happy.

After the gym on Saturday we stopped in the wine store. We weren’t planning on doing any wine tasting right after working out but…

As we browsed the shelves we found two things we did not buy.

I’m pretty sure these are only for tourists since it’s in English.

After the wine store and a stop at home we headed to a spice store. From the outside it didn’t even look open.

Inside we were thrilled to find bulk items.

Not only did they have spices and healthy flours, nuts and dried fruits, they had chocolate covered macadamian nuts.

Next stop was Mr. Tofu. I’ve ordered online from Mr. Tofu, but I thought going in person would be like a Whole Foods, Sprouts or PCC. I thought they would have all kinds of things not available online.

I was wrong. These two freezers were the entire store. And Mr. Tofu only had one kind of tofu. But they did have tempeh and a few other veggie things from the U.S. so it was worth the trip

Now that the weather is not in triple digits we’ve been able to walk outside more. This walk is down the fancy street

In the 1800’s all the rich people built mansions along this road.

Some have been converted to restaurants but many still are single family homes.

It’s a nice walk because it’s flat and has a good wide sidewalk. Now that I’m on a break from treatment and the weather is better we’re hoping to do more walks.

Jeff and I have recently discovered the mamey. I can’t remember how Jeff thought to buy one.

They don’t exactly look delicious at the store.

They look like if a kiwi and an old football had a baby. The above photo is a mamey next to a kiwi.

Although when you cut it in half it’s more like a orange colored avacado. They ripen like an avacado.

Saturday – unripe, Sunday – unripe, Monday morning unripe, Monday from 2:00pm -3:00pm ripe, Monday after 3pm -rotten

If you get it when it’s ripe you can eat ir with a spoon and it tastes like a mix between a sweet potato and a pumpkin. So good.

I’m not bald, but the meds I’m on are causing me to lose hair. It’s getting really thin. So I went for a cut and color. They agreed that lighter would help look less “scalpy.”

I thought they were turning me blonde which I was ok with, but glad when it was just light brown highlights.

My miricle workers were Graham the English stylist, and his partner Adrian the colorist.

When I asked to have them cut the bangs on my wig they didnt want to put it on my head and mess up the style.

So they found a solution.

If you look closely, that is not me.

Adrian agreed to wear it while Graham cut it. Not that is good salon service!

Back at home, both with and without the wig looks better.

Our friends Juliana and Arthur came to visit us in Merida. We met them two years ago while we were in Bogota. We had such a great time with them. The timing worked great with their visit and my treatment. I wasn’t able to go sight seeing with then but we had fun in the morning and evening.

Juliana is from Colombia and is a published author.

Arthur is not only a personal finance consultant from the Netherlands, he is also a coffee expert. He travels with a pour over, aeropress, and grinder.

They made us a delicious dinner one night.

We went out for Italian food one night.

We started a band called the Italian Food Eaters. We don’t have any music or know how to play instruments.

But we have our first two album covers.

We also all rocked my blonde wig.

Jeff put it on too but I wasn’t fast enough to get a photo.

This week my treatment hit me hard. I spent a lot of time in the hammocks.

We did get out for a walk last night. Sunset was incredible.

I also made this juice. Yes that is juice not muddy water. It tasted good but there is a reason they don’t mix carrots with celery, spinach or cucumbers in juice recipes on Instagram. From now on I’m going to stick with green stuff or orange stuff or red stuff. No mixing.

Our Airbnb didn’t have as nice of a balcony as our last one. It does have a really nice rooftop deck. There is even a bar in the rooftop. Although not sure we will go since we can just make a srink in our apartment for free and bring it up there.

Here’s a random piece of furniture in our Airbnb. It a tiny chair. I sat on it and it did hold me, but it is so short it would be better for a toddler.

We have some friends visiting us for a few days ago looking forward to seeing them.