Usually Sven and Sergio nap during my treatment.
This time they were hungry so they dug into the first fruit plate.
I made the mistake of letting then have the guest cokes. The sugar and caffiene made them crazy.
They thought the IV stand was their personal jungle gym.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We went out with our friends Clive and Steve.
When we got to the restaurant Steve (brown shirt) handed out Thanksgiving napkins.
Jeff and I ordered two dishes to share. Above is short ribs on mashed potatoes. This was excellent.
The second dish was turkey in mole sauce with fried plantain. Everything was good except the actual turkey. This is the second time I’ve had turkey in Mexico. It is not good. But the mole sauce made up for it.
It was a nice and relaxing Thanksgiving.
While we were glad to celebrate with new friends, we are most thankful for all of you!!!!!
My Monday treatment got moved to Wednesday this week. I arrived early so sat outside and enjoyed the breeze.
My welcome fruit plate was only half good. I’m not a fan of cantoulope.
Breakfast was French toast which was great. I’m so tired of their omelettes. This fruit plate was much better. The orange fruit in this one was papaya.
I take this cooler with me each time. When I get the meds I ice my hands and feet to prevent nuerothapy which for me is tingling fingers and toes. I joked with a nurse in the elevator that it was a case of beer. She laughed but seemed to possibly believe me.
When I was done, I settled in for my held hostage phase but it was only 45 minutes.
I hope everyone that is prepping for Thanksgiving tomorrow has a defrosted turkey and all your ingredientes. I hope those of you traveling have smooth flights.
For Thanksgiving we are going out to dinner with some new friends we met at a coffee shop. They are really nice and named Steve and Clive.
Jeff and I disagree on who is who so that will be interesting. Hopefully not as interesting as several years ago when met new friends for Thanksgiving dinner and their grown son brought a prostitute as his date.
Happy pre Thanksgiving!
We started Friday by bird watching from our balcony. These yellow birds are eating the berries on the trees.
Next we went for a walk. For weeks we’ve heard what sounds like a clown horn. The sound gets closer then farther away.
We always joke there is a clown riding a clown bike around the neighborhood. I’ve also thought perhaps it’s a person with a portable service like knife sharpening.
While we were on our walk and I was taking a picture of this door we heard the clown horn. We were so excited to finally solve the mystery.
Really far down the street we saw “the clown.” His bike and the horn got louder.
We waited in the hot sun. But, he turned before we saw him clearly.
Jeff went ahead and tracked him down in a parking lot.
Turns out he was selling juice water out of what looked to be a garbage can. He served it in a plastic bag with a straw.
He tried to sell us some but we declined. I think he must sell to construction workers. I can’t imagine anyone coming out of their house for a bag of juice water. But if you were working outside in the hot sun and heard a clown horn you might want a nice cold bag of juice water.
I took a lot of photos of doors, which now that I think about might have led me to getting my wallet stolen
I had my cross body purse on me at all times. But when I see a doir I like I dont pay attention to anything else.
Someone was able to unzip my purseand take out my wallet without me realizing it.
It was for sure not the guy in the above photo. They guy had his hands full.
I’m almost sure it didn’t happen in this church.
Although check out the figures on the main altar.
The guy on the top seems to have a bloody amputated leg. The guy on the right is holding a skull
The good thing is I didn’t realize it until we were back in Merida so it didn’t ruin our trip. We were able to freeze all four credit cards that were in my purse and one has already Fed Exed us replacement cards to Mexico.
So all is well but next time I see a nice door I’m going to ask Jeff to hold my purse.
We really loved this town. It smaller and quieter than Merida and had a beautiful waterfront
The above photo is a statue. I was not sitting naked on a rock.
Every street looked like a movie set. I took about 100 door photos which I’ll post tomorrow.
Jeff was even willing to be a door model.
There was a Mayan museum with statues looking mad.
You can’t blame that guy above. That hat looks heavy.
Mouth breather.
There were a lot of columns with descriptions in English which helped to understand what we were looking at.
Without the above description I can’t make anything out. But with it I can sort of see the images.
Here is the last known photo of my sunglasses which I lost somewhere in the city.
On Saturday we took the Mayan train to the town of Campeche.
This train is really nice. The 2 hour trip went by really fast.
On our way to lunch I took a bunch of photos.
The restaurant we went to had photos on the wall. There was one in particular one that freaked me out. Look closely below at his teeth and eyes.
This was our conversation:
Sheryl: That guy is so freaky. Why would they put that photo up.
Jeff: What’s freaky? His beard?
Sheryl: What’s feaky? Are you insane?Look at his teeth!
Jeff: I can’t even see his teeth.
Turns out it was a trick photo. From my angle it looked like the above. Below is what Jeff saw.
After we cleared that up, we walked along the malecón which was beautiful.
I had treatment on Tuesday. It all went fine. There is a cold front here and its been in the 70s. Its been heaven for us, but my nurse told me she hates the cold.
I told her it snowed in Chicago but either I said it wrong or she couldn’t image or she was busy hooking me up to the IV because she didn’t have much of a reaction.
This morning, dare I say it was almost too cold for me. But not really.
Everyone else we’ve asked likes the cooler weather except our front desk guy. He hates the cold. This is the guy who stands in our unairconditioned lobby 12 hours a day. But, he said its because he has joint pain.
We relaxed all weekend. The most exciting thing we did was order in burgers and fries. Its finally cooling off a bit so can stop and look at things without melting.
I’m sure if someone saw me trake a, photo of their mailbox they would have been confused. But I really loved the orange wall.
It was a nice relaxing week this week. The big excitement was getting back to juicing. The above is celery, apple, cucumber, ginger.
It sounds weird but was really good.
