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On Thurday we have a quiet day. Jeff worked, I had a Spanish lesson and we walked to the gym. Our neighborhood is modern but still fun too look at

On Wednesday Jeff and I went to look at an apartment to rent. The one we are currently in is nice but this one had a pool.

Merida is sometimes called the white city which always seemed strange. The center of town is veo colorful. But from this apartment you can see the a lot of the buildings are white

We decided to stay in our current apartment. This bigger one was right off a highway and noisy. But the view was good.

It’s heating up again here. We’ve decided to change our morning walks to evening. Yesterday was so nice walking without being blinded by the sun.

Monday was quiet work day. Jeff worked and I studied Spanish and had a Spanish lesson. On our walk to the gym I saw this very thorny flower or I guess also known as a flowering cactus.

On Sunday we went back to the beach. It’s only a 20 minute Uber ride so a great Sunday activity.

It was almost chilly with the sea breeze and shade of our rented chairs and umbrella.

Above is Jeff being seranaded by a drummer and clarinetist behind him. Too bad I didn’t keep up with my clarinet playing. I could play and Jeff could get a drum.

After a few hours in the shade we went for a walk and I took photos of doors.

On Saturday we went out to breakfast at a,reataurant literally called Breakfast Nachos.

The menu had so many types it was hard to choose.

We chose the 4th one on the menu Chilaquiles con Longaniza de Vallodalid. I had read about these famous sausages from the town of Vallodalid.

We also got the chilaquiles gourmet. The plan was to trade halfway through. Jeff started with the sausage one and said his hair started to tingle. When we switched I felt really weird when I ate the sausages. I got weirdly hot.

Then for the rest of the day we felt sick. I think there was something either a spice, MSG or a preservative that was no bueno.

So I’m taking a break from breakfast nachos and am off Valloladid sausages forever.

On Friday, Jeff and I found another cofdee roaster. We we’re excited because this one was right next to our gym and the coffee was much cheaper.

The bag was also impressive. But the coffee was just OK. So we will go back to the place we went last week with the really nice couple. Good cofdee it’s worth the extra walk and pesos.

Jeff and I joined a gym that is a 20 minute walk from our AirBnB

On Thursday we found out why some of the curbs are so high.

It turns out in the rainy season tge neighborhood floods. This is going to be a lot of water!

It’s not every street or even the whole street. But it’s pretty crazy to think there could be this much water on the streets.

We are currently on the 3rd floor of an apartment building. So if we were still here by July when the rains start water wouldn’t get into our apt. But I think I would be a boat to cross the street.

On Wednesday I made agua de jamaica. It’s basically iced red zinger tea. I’ve had it in restaurants and it’s delicious. Although I now realize the must add a ton of sugar.

I started with buying a bag of dried hibiscus flowers. They have huge bins at the stores where you can buy them in bulk.

The recipe was one cup dried flowers to 3 cups water.

After boiling for 15 minutes and straining it I ended up with a concentrate. I added water and now have a pitcher of still concentrated red zinger tea.

I added more water into a glass and some stevia.

It’s good but would be better with a crap ton of sugar. Here are all the benefits according to Google. I think that bag of dried flowers, will make gallons and gallons of agua de jamaica so I will be healthy but might have stained red teeth.

Tues was a day to go to the gym, enjoy the nice weather and study Spanish. I didn’t take any photos but these are from a few days ago.

We we’re out to breakfast and this was on our table. When we pushed the button it spun in a way that would have kept bugs away if there were any. I’m not sure how effective it would be, but for a beach bar it seemed pretty clever.

This is also interesting. It’s an electric water pump that goes on bottled water. In Panama our water came with a hand pump which worked fine until you got to the bottom of the bottle.

In Panama you can drink the water, but we choose not to. But we did wash fruit and vegetables with sink water.

Here, we drink and wash fruits and veggies with bottled. This electric pump makes it much easier to hold say an apple under the water without having to manually pump the water.