My chocolate birthday cake! YUMMY!
Look at that cloud build up. Such a pretty view.
This is a GINORMOUS juice box called Chupi Frut. Translated,...
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Looks like a weird shaped apple
While we were in Merida, we decided to try out something that sounded like fun: biking through the city on Sunday morning.
Merida sections off a path through the heart of the city EVERY Sunday morning to allow its residents and visitors a chance to bike or skate or even just stroll along the city without worrying about cars.
I know we're in Mexico now, but I wanted to share with you one of the best known dishes from Costa Rica: Gallo Pinto!
Translated, the name means "painted chicken", like the Plymouth Rock Chicken…which we saw quite a few of while living in Atenas.
BUT…the dish doesn't HAVE chicken in it. And our son liked to call it "Gato Pinto" or "painted cat", but we never harmed any cats while making this dish. :o)
I never imagined that our family would one day be without a car of our own. I still remember 4 of us (we had only 2 children in 2000) selling my Honda Accord and getting into my husband's truck to drive from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, Texas to buy our Toyota Sienna minivan. We'd spotted it on the internet (yes, there were actually cars listed online for sale back in 2000…we were VERY progressive!) and drove up to buy it.
It has been a LONG time since we've been to the zoo. Not because we don't enjoy them, because we certainly do, but because they're just SO stinkin' expensive for a family of 7. So when we found out that the zoo in Merida was FREE, we decided it was going to be on our family bucket list of things to do while in the Yucatan. (The link to the zoo is all in Spanish, but still neat even if you can't read it.)
When we arrived in Cancun, we rented a van for the 4+ hour drive from the airport to Merida, a large city on the northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula. We had opted for renting a van over taking the bus because there would be very little price difference for a group of our size AND it would allow us to stop as needed. With 5 children, who had been awake since 4 am with very little sleep the night before, the van seemed like the best option.