August 10, 2008

We Survived A Montezuma Mexican Adventure

We arrived back in the United States yesterday and boy what a trip!  The first part was great fun spending time with my sister-in-law and family and a couple of days in San Miguel de Allende but the day night before we flew to Mexico City, Montezuma exacted his revenge (the link takes you to a British phrase finder site that give you other funny names for this condition around the world that I’d never heard before like Tokyo Trots and Delhi Belly).  

It seems that invariably when we travel someone gets sick and this time it was me and to a lesser extent the kids.  The only plus from getting sick is that I think I lost the 3 lbs I gained during the first part of the trip. 

Some details are just too crazy to get into but all I can say is that it is good to be back in the good ‘ole US of A where: 

• The streets are clean!  When we arrived in Mexico City one of the first things our son asked us was why the streets were so dirty?!
• You can drink water straight from the tap if you want to.
• Customer service really means that the customer comes first.  Renting a car in Mexico can be time consuming/draining when compared to renting in the US.
• Breakfast is in the morning, lunch is around noon, and dinner is around 6 or 7 pm.  In Mexico they usually eat their lunch around 2 or 3pm and then a light dinner around 9 pm.
• They take credit cards pretty much everywhere you go.  Many places we went in Mexico did not take credit cards so if you were out of cash, you had to the nearby ATM which happened to us several times.

 The few things we do miss are: 

• Our family in Leon, Mexico
• The cooler temperatures (60 to 80 degrees versus today’s high in Austin of 105!!)
• The beautiful flowers
• The kid-friendly restaurants.  In Mexico many restaurants had easily accessible, closed-in play scapes where the kids could run around and you can watch them calmly from your table.  It made eating with kids much more enjoyable!

I’ll be playing catch up for a few days.  Since I was able to check email periodically while I was out, I only have hundreds of emails to go through instead of thousands!

Here’s a picture my husband took of a section of a mural done on a wall by Eleanor Coen in 1942 inside a museum of art in San Miguel de Allende:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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