Ay! Guadalajara hermosa, quiero decirte una cosa.

Yet another fun filled weekend with friends! Bruno and I went to a Nissan work dinner on Friday in Metepec. I got to meet one of his best friend’s baby! It was the one whose baby shower I went to last year. Her daughter was precious. After dinner we went on a CD player hunt. Fulbright gives all the English Teaching Assistants an allowance to buy a gift to donate to the institution they work at. I work at 6 so I chose 5 and I’m donating CD players to the English program in each of the locations. We didn’t have any luck with the CD players because we were short on time. We rushed over to a coworker of Bruno’s house because his girlfriend was throwing him a surprise party. However, there was no need to rush because the birthday boy didn’t show up until 11PM! We ate without him. Bruno and I brought a raspberry tres leches cake so we all sang and had cake together once he arrived.

Bruno and I hit the road early Saturday morning to go to Guadalajara for one last reunion with the People I Like. We got there early afternoon and met Jordan, Preston, Britney, and Charllotte in the zócalo. It was a beautiful and HOT day in GDL. It was in the 90s! We went to the 3-story markets to have lunch. Guadalajara has great tortas ahogadas (drowned sandwiches) so we ordered those. Then we walked over to the Instituto Cultural Cabañas Patrimonio de la Humanidad. In short, it was a culture/art museum. They had some cool exhibits. One was of the Olympics when they were in Mexico in 1968, another was a room with logs and a poem in English projected on the wall, and my favorite were the architecture ones. There were pictures of some street signs and sculptures that are around Toluca.

On the walk to the car after the museum, we tried tejuino (a corn-based drink) with lime flavored ice cream and ice cream in the form of a stick. Both very recommendable. After our treats, we hung out at Charllotte’s cute little apartment before finding housing for the night. The boys and I found a great place for a reasonable price but when we got our room key, someone was already in the room! Thankfully, we got a free upgrade. Then we met up with the girls for wings at a nearby restaurant before heading to a place called Barecitto. They had a little man dressed as Chucky walking around with the shock box. You hold on to these metal pieces and see how much electricity you can handle before letting go. Brit and Char were crazy enough to do it! The bar had a live band with great cover singers.

Sunday morning was started off right with a big breakfast at IHOP. Jordan couldn’t decide what he wanted and he wasn’t that hungry so he ordered two plates. I know. It doesn’t make sense. We still love him. I ordered French toast but it was still raw like bread on the inside. No one makes French toast like my mom. It was hard to say goodbye to everyone because it was the last time we would all be together for a while. Bruno and I drove Jordan to Toluca with us but we had to stop a few hours into the trip because of the hail storm. I had never seen hail that big. We parked under a bridge for 30 minutes while the storm passed. We got back to Toluca too late for Jordan to take a bus to Tlaxcala so we all went to the Lord’s House instead. After, we went to Bruno’s house to have dinner with his family and especially his mom because it was Mother’s Day! We had a cookout which in Mexico always consists of grilling steak, green onions, and cactus to make some mean tacos. We had stopped by a panadería on the way to Bruno’s house to pick up a cake. It was a chocolate cake with chocolate and cherry filling. No one does cakes like panaderías here in Mexico. Another thing I will miss when I go back to the states.