Mexico ch 6 Ajijic
We spent the last day in Ajijic with Ada and Steve. They took us to Tlaquepaque, a suburb of Guadalajara. It is a very high end area filled with stores and restaurants. There are shops by designers with gorgeous paintings, sculptures, clothes, glassware and textiles. Museum quality. Just so beautiful it was fun to wander through the shops and just look. Some were galleries of famous Mexican artists. F got tired of looking at "beautiful" things and went outside and struck up a conversation with a Mexican family. It was a 3 generation Mexican family including a 98 year old grandmother. I got a wonderful picture of her. She was so sharp and did not look 98. Fun!
We ate at El Patio and had wonderful rellenos. A Mariachi band, all beautiful women, entertained us. They were so good we bought a tape.
Another enjoyable day and we hated saying "good bye" to Ada and Steve. They have been so good to us. We really lucked out having them as a contact here. Maybe we can catch them in Houston some time.
We spent the day driving to Puerto Vallarta. Unbelievably pretty scenery. There were vistas with mountains. Then trees arching over the road so that the road was completely shaded. Then you drove out from under the shade and saw more mountains and huge vistas. Amazing! Very curvy like driving in CO or New Mexico. We stopped at some more ruins at Ixtopl del Rio. Ruins date about 300 A.D. We had Cloud with us and about 7 kids came running up to us when we pulled into the ruins. They told us we couldn't take a dog to the ruins . F said he would pay them to watch Cloud. Made me uneasy but they were cute kids and full of personality. When we finished the tour they and Cloud and their dog came running up to us like they had had so much fun. Sure enough they watched him and gave him water and F gave all of them some pesos. We got their picture.
We arrived in Puerto Vallarta, checked into hotel. Great! Right on beach. Ate supper with Habitat group of 18. Had fun meal visiting and getting to know them. Some in 20's. Some our age. A few are fluent in Spanish. Now in bed exhausted. Good night!
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