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.
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.
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.
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.
On Saturday we went to the Calle de dulces or candy street. There were lots of stores with traditional Puebla candy.
The one for tje picture above was so bad I spit it out the second the picture was taken. It tasted like an almond joy. Gross. Jeff moved it. He was eating a chocolate covered fig which was delicious
There was a lot to try. The above was made out of sweet potato and really good.
Between free samples and what we bought we had a major sugar rush.
This cute mini tamale had some tamirand goo that was sweet, salty and spicy all at once.
We ate a lot of what we bought but then I put some in my purse for later.
Here’s Jeff comteplating the bullet holes in the building behind him. Or he was thinking about more candy. This is where the Mexican revolution started in 1910.
After Candy Street we went to the tunnels of Puebla. They were constructed in the 1600’s as an aquaduct to bring drinking water to the center of town six miles away.
We walked through then for about ten minutes and there were stairs to exit. I said to Jeff, “That’s perfect. Just enough tunnels.
Unfortunately, when we got to street level a gentleman directed us across the street where the tunnels continued. That was too much tunnel.
It didn’t help that the tunnels closed at 4pm and it was 3:45. I imagined them closing the tunnels and not realizing we were down there. It would have been a night in the tunnels with only tamirand goo and an almond joy. But we made it out in time.
Just kidding. You can’t check books out here. And even if you could they would mostly be in Latin. I have always loved libraries. Two of my favorite jobs were working in libraries. I still use the Seattle online library.
We had this great tour guide who not only spoke perfect English, he was a bit alternative with nail polish and makeup which was great.
The library was on the second floor of a building but had three levels of books, with really steep steps to get to each level.
The door on the right in this picture is where they kept the forbidden books. These were the books the Church deemed evil including books by Leonardo Divinci and Gallaleo.
This was used so you could have several books open at once, sort of like we do today with different windows open on our computers.
This door was the door going into the library. Our guide explained that in the 1800’s the Mexican president came to Puebla. They built this door to impress him. Bit he never came. He just ate in a restaurant and left.
So that was the oldest library we’ve been to. But below is one of the newest ones we’ve been to. It was established in 2014 as a Pop Up library
Our niece Joey and I created this library in her house for the enjoyment of our family.
We all got library cards but only a lucky few got color ones. We weren’t allowed to use the color printer for more.
As head librarian Joey checked everyone in and all the books out.
My entire family loves to read, so they all really did browse the shelves and pick out books.
Since then Joey had gone from mini librarian to a beautiful young woman. She graduates high school on Sunday. We are so proud of her!
