On Tuesday we celebrated my birthday in Mt favorite way, by relaxing. Jeff made me pancakes for breakfast, I went for a massage, and we went out for dinner. Dinner was OK but the Oreo tiramisu Jeff got is for dessert was incredible.
Sven and Sergio helped Jeff blow up ballons while I was out.
Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes. All your comments, texts and calls made my birthday even that much better.
On Monday we moved from our hotel to an AirBnB. The hotel was good although after three days we were tired of the included breakfast.
After breakfast we had time between checkout of the hotel and checking to the Airbnb so we studied some Spanish. Once we got to our apt we went grocery shopping.
It was nice to be able to cook dinner. I love going out to dinner, but eating in is nice too.
We made a simple dinner of pasta and green beans which was delicious.
On Sunday we woke up to an earthquake. The above photo is a recreation. We had woken up and were about to get up when the entire bed started moving. It took us a few seconds to realize it was an earthquake. It was a 6.5 and pretty far away from us. We felt it but there wasn’t damage or anything.
Our hotel had an included breakfast, but it was just ok. Second breakfast was much better and prettier.
We went to the Parque Ecologico. It’s a beautiful park on the river.
I love the park bench recliners.
It was a great relaxing day.
On Saturday we just hung out. We did nothing but walk around and drink coffee. This was the view from our hotel room.
The first thing we did was get our phones working. We got Mexican SIM cards in Mexico which didn’t work in Colombia. So we went to the cell phone store and got Colombia SIM cards. This nice young man put them in our phones and got them all set up.
Next stop was a park then back to the hotel for a long nap. We went out for Vietnamese food for dinner. We like Colombia food, but it’s nice to have variety. Mexico is mostly Mexican food. Which we love, but not everyday.
On Friday we flew from Cancun to Medellin. The flight was great. Immigration took forever and then we checked into our hotel and took long maps. We got up, went out to dinner and then back to the hotel. You know I’m tired when I dint take any photos! Jeff took the above picture at dinner.
On Thursday we traveled to Cancun. We planned to check out of our AirBnB and catch an afternoon bus to Cancun, spend the night in Cancun and fly to Colombia the next morning
But things don’t always go as planned. Due to some silliness, we didn’t know if we could do the trip until 6:30pm, on Thur. Our nice Airbnb with the above view was booked so we moved to another place at noon.
We didn’t know if we’d be here 8 hours or three days. This was a limbo hotel. We didn’t unpack or do much.
It was a nice place but we barely did anything but nap. At 6:30pm we found out the trip was a go. At 9pm we checked put and headed for the bus station.
Tired but ready to sleep on the bus. Didn’t actually sleep on the bus.
We got to the Cancun airport at 2:30am
Longest wait ever for the 3rd hotel of the day shuttle. Checked in by 3:30am. Slept a good 4 hours.
Smile was a bit forced Friday morning but all as good and we caught out flight to Medellin.
On Wednesday I got my maintenance treatment. It always starts out healthy.
I’m pretty sure one jello isn’t healthy much less four.
Then there was lunch with a fifth jello.
The actual treatment is an hour. Then I had to be a prisioner in the room for another two hours while they did paperwork.
The room is nice but after two hours for no reason my smile was forced. But they finally let me go and I’m good for the next three weeks.
On Tuesday we were in Merida and I spent the day looking through some door pictures.
This one is funny. Sort of the Bull’s logo but tenis?
Jeff and I flew from Mexico City back to Merida on Monday. Merida had a heat index of 109 but it still felt good to be back. We loved Mexico City and Puebla, but the ease and quiet of Merida is nice.
Here are some random photos from Puebla. The above is just a guy, his bike and a lot of meat.
This tiny pizza place makes some of the best pizza we’ve ever had. We stumbled on it when the taco place we were looking for was closed and we were hungry
They were so nice and made such good pizza. We came back two more times.
Here’s Jeff walking down the street.
Here is a bright pink building.
Sven and Sergio don’t even mind getting packed anymore. They’ve done it so many times. On Sunday we took the bus back to Mexico City
Normally I’m nervous about missing a bus or plane and want to leave for an airport or bus station much earlier than needed.
This time we somehow lost track of time. They check baggage at a gate like a plane. I looked at my watch and saw it was 1:40. The bus was supposed to leave at 1:40. Jeff asked the baggage guy if we should run. He said yes.
We were late but not late enough to not take a photo.
Also not too late to grab our free waters, and take a another photo.
Once we were seated, and the bus departed at 1:44, Jeff tried to track our luggage with our airtags. I told him not to bother, there was no way they could have checked in our luggage and got it on the bus in four minutes.
I put my seat back and when I adjusted the AC above my seat, I noticed it was a smiley face.
Three hours later we arrived in Mexico City and by some miracle so did our luggage.
