Sheryl Update

When my parents first arrived in Merida I assured them, we will Uber places, see air conditioned places and not walk in the heat. So of course yesterday we did all those things.

The original plan was to go to the Palicio de Governmiento. We Ubered here. But it was closed, or we were at the wrong doors or something but couldn’t go in.

The backup plan was to go to the Casa de Montejo which was a ten minute walk away. In the heat.

I pretty much was ready to lie down in that historical bed when we got there.

This painting was interesting. The guard’s reenactment was even better.

After the museum we walked again in the heat through the park.

After resting and rehydrating we went out to dinner and a carriage ride. Due to bad lighting I didn’t get any good photos. But I do love this one. Jeff looks like a cardboard cutout and the driver looks like I purposefully blurred her face out.

We also tried to get a picture by the Mexico sign.

I look like I’m on a drug trip. Jeff looks like we just brought a cardboard cutout of his head.

We also posed by this other Merida sign. It was a good day and my parents were great and never complained about the heat. I promised them that would be it for getting overheated.

My new meds are 2 weeks on then a week off. So for this treatment day my mom was nice enough to come with. She was even nice enough to try all the food they give me.

We started with the fruit plate. Papaya and grapes.

Then I got a omelette with a second fruit plate.

My mom was willing to eat the ham sandwich. I actually think it’s a guest ham sandwich.

You can see my ice socks in the photo. These meds can cause tingling in your fingers and toes so it’s popular to wear ice socks and gloves in the US. It’s not in Panama or Mexico. In both places the nurses are like WTF are you doing?

Neither of us wanted the jello but I asked my mom to pose with it. This wasn’t even all of it.

After I was done and we were held hostage waiting to leave, lunch showed up. Watermelon juice and enough taco meat for a family of four. And of course more jello.

Then I did my normal sweep of the room where I take anything not nailed down cookies, water bottles, apples. When I leave I assume only the restockers see that I’ve cleaned then out. This time the nurse came back in. I was a little embarrassed. But hey, I left the jello.

My parents arrived in Merida yesterday! After a full day of traveling including a plane change in Mexico City, they still had more energy than I did.

We had dinner at a restaurant called Yerba Santa. It used to be the house of a French doctor. Imagine how much health care must have cost in the early 1900s if this was a doctor’s house.

Dinner was really good and very fancy. I wish I had taken photos. I think every one of our dishes came with a special foam made out of dark beer.

We were impressed with the food but the foam just tasted like…foam.

Apparently the original owners liked sunsets so they built this tower to go up and see them. There were a lot of steps, so only Jeff went up.

Here was his view of us from the top.

It was a great night. My parents are here for the week, so happy they are here with us!!!!

This is the before.

This is the after. I’m happy to have short hair again. Although this morning I woke to it looking like a mushroom. I’m still learning how to style it.

Its finally cooling off a teeny tiny bit. We were able to actually walk to the gym vs taking an Uber there, walking on a treadmill then taking an Uber back.

I keep looking at the 2 week forecast. One of these days the high will be under 90 degrees. Not in the next two weeks, but eventually.

On our way into our apartment last night we found a taranchula in the hallway. Its hard to tell from the photo but he was big.

We asked the guy at tge front desk what we should do since the spider seemed to be guarding pur front door. He came up with a broom. I guess you just sweep them up. Not sure what happened next. Probably better not to know.

They’ve switched my meds up which means the day and schedule has changed. Now it’s on Monday and since it was a new drug Jeff came with. He said it was to be there if I had an allergic reaction, but I think it was really for the cookies.

He agreed to eat the ham sandwich I never want to eat.

They always want me in a hospital gown. Totally don’t need to be. Also don’t need to be in a hospital bed, but they insist. I got the new meds and an omelette.

After I got my meds and was fine Jeff went back to our apartment to take over my Spanish lesson.

I got a phone call where I thought they said in Spanish that I had to wait in the room like usual until they came to release me.

I settled in for the wait and enjoyed some pork tacos for lunch.

The fresh watermelon juice was especially good as was this weird dessert that was like cookie cheesecake.

After two hours reading my book and having a leisurely lunch, the nurse came in to check on me. She wanted to know if I was OK and needed a wheelchair. I told her I was fine just waiting to be released. She said I had been released two hours ago by phone. Guess my Spanish isn’t as good as I thought, but at least I got tacos.

On Sunday we went to the beach in the town of Progresso. It’s only a 20 minute Uber ride away. We started at breakfast with the above view. We ate a big breakfast which was good so we were not hungry for all the food the vendors were selling.

This guy had an entre bakery on his head. The table he was carrying was so he could put the container down for you to chose.

Was already wearing clothes so didn’t need any of these.

Had a beach bag. Didn’t need any baskets.

Definitely skipping the fried grasshoppers snack.

Me really happy not to be eating grasshoppers.

Candy, no thanks.

Pork rinds, that’s a hard no.

Mango and melon actually sounded good. But not sure how clean the knife and water to wash it was. So pass .

really not sure what it, only that we didn’t want it.

And then finally no vendors. The vendors did not do a hard sell. A simple no gracias got them to keep walking. The water was really nice too. Warm and no waves.

After the museum on Saturday, Jeff and I went to a famous sorbet place.

It’s been around for over 100 years ago it must be good.

There were so many fruits common like strawberry but also exotic like guanabana, but elote caught my eye. Because what could be better than corn sorbet? Turns out a lot.

Jeff got a mango which tasted amazing. Mine came with actual corn kernels in it. The first few bites were great. The top photo shows my delight in having something that tastes like frozen corn. But, after half of it I wondered if I even like corn.

Jeff was nice enough to share the rest of his mango. And I understand why Ben and Jerry’s doesn’t have Corn on the Cob ice cream.

On Saturday we went to the Anthropology museum. It’s in a revamped palace so the building was as interesting on the outside as inside.

Inside there were Mayan artifacts. It was interesting to see items from 1000 ad in a building from the 1700’s.

The statues were giving me the side eye as usual.

They all look mildly pissed.

Whatever this one is offering, I do not want.

Some of the details of the palace were a bit disturbing. Imagine facing this guy on your way up to bed each night.

This was on the front of the building. What the heck was wrong with this guy?