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On Friday night there was a really cool sunset. Then we went out for Korean food.

When we’ve been in other placesI’ve craved Mexican food. Now that we are in Mexico I crave Asian food.

A few weeks ago we had the 8:07 firework mystery. This stopped the very next day after I posted about it.

The next mystery we heard throughout the day butter were never outside to investigate. It sounded almost like a Japanese cartoon intro.

Today I realized they are singung about gas.

The second one we heard from indoors and never could make out what they were saying. It always sounded very official.

This one is for tamales.

We have one more to solve. We hearc what sounds like a clowmn horn usually in the evenings. Either there is a clown out for a stroll or they are selling something.

This looks worse than it was. The water wasn’t up to the window although it felt like it. When it rains here some of the side streets flood in places. When we are in an Uber is always surprises us when the car turns onto a street that looks like a river. We’re even more surprised when the Uber can drive through it.

In other Uber news, it’s never a good sign when we see a fan in the front seat. This means that although its 102 outside there is no AC in the car.

I love having my window down, the hot winds of hell blowing in my face.

On the plus side, when we see the radio turned to this station we know it will be a good ride. It’s an American 70s and 80s music station. No Mexican listens to this, so it means the driver put it on especially for us. They always seem amused to see me from their rear view mirror rocking out.

On Wednesday I had treatment. I only got a picture of this melon heavy fruit plate. Our electricity was out in our apartment so my phone wasn’t charged up. I didn’t mind the time spent there since it was nice and cool

And by the time I got home, the loghts and AC were back on.

We checked out this church bit couldn’t go inside due to mass going on.

The side of the church looked realky different than the front.

This giant iguana seemed to be in charge of the church. He didn’t want to move when we walked along the sidewalk to the door of the church.

On Sunday we decided to check out a market and have lunch there. It was super hot. The heat index said with humidity it felt like 102 degrees. But we planned to drink lots of water and just deal with the heat.

After seeing the inside of the market we changed our minds. The market was clean, there were the usual gross meats hanging by hooks. Lots of skinned turkeys hanging by their necks. I didn’t take photos way too gross

The most disturbing part was there was no AC. All the meat was sitting out in the heat. It was probably ok but we couldn’t do it

We checked out this colorful taqueria instead. They were closed so we went to an air conditioned restaurant.

Did the meat for that restaurant come from the unairconditioned market? We don’t know but we felt fine after eating lunch.

Some of you may know that I have an eye phobia. Normal eyes I’m good with but injured eyes freak me out. On Saturday Jeff got a burst blood vessel in his eye. He’s totally fine, but I’m not. Every time I look at him I involuntarily scream. Jeff has this nifty fix of using this phone eye as a substitute. It works until he needs both hands.

The phone eye, was inspired by our friend Brian. Years ago when he and I worked together at Starbucks he had the same eye problem and I had the same reaction. He started with a post it note eye that he wore in meetings and then graduated to the hand eye.

Friday we did just the usual. Errands, Jeff worked and I studied Spanish and we went to the gym.

On our way to the cenotes we passed through two small towns. We counted, each one had one road and 30 speed bumps. I get they want you to drive slowly but it was a lot.

We were told the speed bumps were because the town really down have many cars. They mostly have these moror taxis. They are motorcycles with a park bench on the front. We saw tons of these.

We also saw some cows.

The speed bumps did slow us down enough to notice the Mayan pyramid in the top photo and the town church.

On Wednesday we finally visited a cenote. Cenotes are basically water filled caves. There are over 14,000 cenotes on the Yucatan peninsula.

We went to a place called Santa Barbara which had three cenotes. They actually have four, but once was closed. The first thing they give you is a life vest which everyone is required to wear in the cenotes. At first I thought it seemed like overkill, but once I was in the water I realized you needed them. They are deep. You can’t touch the bottom in any of them.

The first one was a closed cenote which meant it was completely underground.

To get to it we had to go down these stairs. As a person who is bad on stairs it took me awhile to get down

Once I was in the water it was great. The water is cold but when it’s 103 outside cold water is welcome.

The second one was partial cenote which means there is a hole in the ceiling which lets in light. This one started with this tunnel. Once inside it was half cave with staglites and half open with a tree growing down down towards the water.

On the way out I asked Jeff to go ahead to get the phone to take the above photo. As I was getting out I teetered on my feet a bit and next thing I knew four elderly Mayan men were helping me out of the water.

The third one had these stairs to get down to it. The stairs were OK but the handrail was the blue rope. I was clutching the rope pretty hard, but made it down. Once down this one was the easiest to actually get in the water.

This one was open which meant the entire ceiling was open. This is also the one in the top photo.

Afterwards we had lunch in the restaurant which was included in the entry price. We thought it wouldn’t be good since it was included but it might have been the best food we’ve had in the Yucatan peninsula.

We now have only 13,997 cenotes to still see. Swimming in them was great, but getting into them was tricky. I need one with better stairs.