Pocket Superhero

Sometimes I feel like going through the city is such a danger!!! It is full with dumb people who drive slow, that decide that they can just zig zag whenever they need to shake things up!

There are also the people who think they can walk and text at the same time and that objects (maybe a person or two) will just jump right out of their way.

Do not forget the incredibly smart ones that think they can fly, or maybe they think they are ghosts and things can go through them; so they just go right on and walk onto the street to crosst it when the cars have green on street lights.

I think my favorites are the incredibly lighting bolt fast cyclists who think they can out pedal a car and cut in front of them whenever they feel like it... in the dark... with no lights.

For all these perils I found my solution!!! I got myself a pocket superhero! Now I take him in my purse with some vital data (whole 4GB of it) to defend me from all these would-be attackers!

Please do the same and take care no to clash in any important way with all these geniuses that plague our society.

Mérida en Domingo

My beautiful Mérida has eventful Sundays! I decided to give these Sunday plans a try.

One sunny, warm and delicious Sunday morning I woke up early,  put on my tennis shoes and headed for “Paseo de Montejo”, the most beautiful street in the city. on Sundays they close it and make a “bici-ruta” where people can bring or rent their bikes, or just walk and go up and down the street; they can bring their dogs and have lots of family fun. It is very cool to see families hanging out in this manner, just walking up and down the street on a Sunday morning.

I didn’t take my bike, because I do not have one on this side of the Atlantic, but I found one in the end, for free, from one of the phone companies. It was a crappy bike, but still, it was fun fun.

After a while, my mom and an aunt that was visiting from Mexico city, came and got me and we continued on to the city center where there settles a little market full of curiosities, crafts, clothes, jewelry and the like; most of them handmade, traditional looking and basically… just fun. We walked around, got some pearl items, some herbal teas and delighted ourselves on the show. Yes, there is a show!! We got to see some man singing “canciones rancheras”, which are the charro songs: big hat, boots with spurs, those tight pants full of buttons, mariachi like stuff.

The best part of these events is the food!!, as always in México. The Mexican food, I believe, is the best in the world! I ate marquesitas (like an ice cream cone in the shape of a crêpe with gouda-like cheese in the center), coconut sorbet, esquite (boiled corn with chili powder, lemon, soup cheese, cream.. delicious!!!).

After that, there was too much heat and we had to leave! So we moved into the comfort of the air conditioned car and back home for some fresh lemonade!

I love eventful Sundays.

Cocunut sorbet

Merida Fest

Mérida, my beautiful city, had its birthday, its 471th birthday! 

I celebrate my birthday with style: a birthweek; but Mérida makes it even bigger: the Mérida Fest!! it is a month full of activities: concerts, plays, expositions, talks, events... all sort of things!

Mérida by night

I love to participate in this city craze and attend to as many as I can, specially because they are for free :), So I bathe myself in culture and splash about in the beauty of the arts!

This year I attended several things, like the play "love letters to Stalin", by the National theatre company. It was a great show. The "best" part was that my friend César and I were engaged into conversation with an 80-something year old Professor of literature from another state that thought it was of vital importance to tell us about his entire life history :) it was quite interesting if I must admit


 There was also the opening of the Andy Warhol exhibition. From Mao to Marilyn. There were also other two show rooms with very interesting paintings.

All in all, the Mérida Fest is a Huge deal for me J. This time I couldn’t go to many activities, but the ones I participated in  I truly enjoyed them.

Until next year