Welcome to our site!
Our goal with this site is to keep family and friends updated on our adventures. We want to stay connected with you! We hope to use this blog as a way to do that.
We will be sharing our thoughts on why we decided to do what we’re doing, how we decided to go where we are going, and then let you discover and explore the areas with us as we post images, videos and thoughts about what we are experiencing.
If you have questions or just want to get a hold of us, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Tip the older gentlemen and women that bag your groceries. Who knew?! We were here a couple of weeks before we found out about this one. They are volunteers and they are there to earn a few pesos. (25 t0 50 cents)
If you saw our short video of the home we are staying in while in Merida, you know that doing our laundry is a very manual process.
We thought we’d share how it looks doing laundry at our house… enjoy the pics, presented in order of your normal washing cycle! The dry cycle can take up to 36 hours!
Wow! 20 hours of class in 5 days with homework at night. So much for that easy-going lifestyle!
Actually it was great, but it sure was intense! Nidi, our amazing teacher, did a great job giving us just what we needed to start dog-paddling in the pool of Spanish. We think it’s actually an ocean. We can’t wait until we can swim well enough to enjoy diving in to some real conversations at normal conversation speed. We are thrilled to be on our way however.
We anticipate we will have multiple posts about the Yucatecan food. Here is Yucatecan food part 1!
We enjoyed our Friday evening at a local Yucatecan restaurant called La Chaya Maya.
The highlight of the evening was watching local Mayan make handmade tortillas. They had two Mayan ladies making hundreds of tortillas while we enjoyed our meal.
We had the wonderful privilege of taking advantage of the Sunday tradition of closing down one side of the main avenue in Merida so that walkers, bicyclists, skateboarders, joggers and families in all sizes take over Paseo de Montejo.
Families, young and old, some just learning to bike, scooters, and more are all a part of this family-oriented event. Bikes for up to 5+ people, some with canopies, navigate the avenue.