Good Friday

We are in the midst of another grand fiesta time in Merida. It is Holy Week then Spring Break here. During Holy Week families are very involved with church activities and family get togethers.

Here are some members of the little Catholic church in our tiny pueblo San Pedro Nohpat re-enacting the Passion.

The other places that almost everyone in Merida ends up at least once during Spring Break are the beaches. We decided to drive by our normal beach hang-outs to scope out the action.

We knew it was going to be bustling when we saw all the traffic heading out to the beaches!

It was crazy-busy! We saw cars from all over Mexico, Canada and this was a visitor from Belize.

The vendors and rides were getting set up for the second week of Spring Break.

Progreso is also preparing for more boat races next week.

Yucalpeten was not too busy so we stopped to enjoy the ocean breeze and watch a kite surfer. There was also a cruise ship in port. Supposedly, the city of Progreso negotiated to have a cruise ship come in to port almost everyday in exchange they poured a lot of dinero into improving the boardwalk.

There are plenty of little vendors on the side of the roads. You can buy handbags, shoes, swimsuits, floaties for the ocean, food and chilled coconuts where they chop off the top, stick a straw in and you have a coconut juice treat. When you are finished with your juice you can ask them to cut it up for you to eat the coconut meat inside.

OK now remember I told you we were going fishing??... Ahah! look ... my first fish! He was this hilarious little puffer fish. I thought he was going to explode puffing up and holding his breath! I told him I was sorry about the darn hook in the mouth.. then let him go :)

Lastly, boy do we need rain (be careful what you wish for, right, if you remember our rainy seasons here). Our green jungles are so dry. Even our beautiful flamboyenes trees have sparse flowers and very few leaves.

Well all said and done it was a great Good Friday!


Love you all!

Work Work Work

 You probably noticed the blog has slowed down.. especially with postings of adventures. Alas we are working Joes (or maybe the term here is working Joses) now!

Ed has been busy training people. His client list grows weekly. He is also very busy teaching other trainers at Sports Center.
We have been so fortunate to have met some wonderful friends who have also helped us immensely. A client/friend of Ed's gave him space to use for developing his own school. We had an Open House for friends to come see the space.

Here is Raul, Eric and Rodrigo. Raul is a lawyer and has helped us with some legal issues with our business. Eric amazingly is the first person we ever met here when we first entered Merida. He works for Immigration and he checked our passports when we got off the plane. He ended up working out at Gold's Gym with Ed, remembered us, and has been a fast friend since! Rodrigo introduced me to the owners of CIS, the language school I work for. http://www.cisyucatan.com.mx/

The lovely lady at the end is Monica, Raul's wife. She works for a local university.

Ed and I both work 6 days a week now so our fun day is Sunday. Much of that time is spent on the beach. We used to go to Progresso but find ourselves more at the beaches in Chelem and Cheburna now. All are still only 30 mins from the house.

Groovy plaid speedo eh?!! hehehehe

As you can tell... Ed still is the incredibly disciplined man we know and love!

And as you can tell I am still the undisciplined twinkie eater you all came to know and love :)

I want to try fishing this weekend (Ed swears I can use corn not worms for bait) so maybe we will have a blog entry displaying my record breaking catch (more likely just pics of my handicap disorientated minnow).

Until then, we love you all!