Chapala

Hola Peoples!

It's time for a blog party.  Hold on to your butts.

Con and I have arrived safely in Xalapa/Jalapa, but let us rewind a moment.  We have already spent a wonderful six days with Grandpa and Hester in Chapala.  Chapala is home to the biggest lake in Mexico, and we had a beautiful view of it at Gramp's house out in the country.  Every day we studied Spanish, caught up on our reading, and explored the area.  Connor (who's never been out of the country) fell in love with Mexico on the first day.  How could you not?  Beautiful view, friendly people, perfect weather.  It was fab.  Gramps and Connor got to be bien amigos, also.

Our fav moments in Chapala are as follows

Listening to Grandpa sing ALL THE TIME.  A good half an hour in the morning and a half an hour before bed, plus every time we're in the car or strolling down the street.  We already miss that old crooner.

The day trip to Tapalpa.  We all drove about two hours outside of Chapala to an enchanting mountain town called Tapalpa, where I accidently ordered a scary lunch of squishy green pig's skin.  It wasn't very long ago that the only way you could reach Tapalpa was via horse or burro.  Con and I also managed to trespass onto private property to climb on huge boulders.  Grandpa kept us on our toes by keeping watch for us on a nearby rock, yelling that the bulls were charging for us (there were bulls on the farmland we snuck into!)  We also saw other mountain villages where we were the only gringos.  One town had a beautiful church that was built in the 1500's.  Woah doggies.  It really was impressive.

Watching the history channel and the Antique Roadshow before bed every night.  I know this isn't especially Mexican, but man did we see an amazing documentary about Abe Lincoln.

Con wants me to post this and do a different section on our Xalapa adventures.  SO...to be continued, amigos.