What a day. We decided to take a day trip to a town called San Miguel de Allende. It’s a beautiful colonial town, and a Mecca for ex patriots. I saw more white English speaking people there than in our home town.
We walked all around the City center. Because of the pandemic, all the parks were closed. We stumbled upon a tour guide, and we decided to let him give us a tour because his shirt had the number 1979 written on it, the year of our birth.
Our tour guide took us all over the town. One of the places he took us is a street that is the most photographed. I guess tv shows and movies in Mexico use the backdrop in the photo below frequently.
We walked to a lot of churches. I’m going to post the photos in a gallery below. Every church was much older than our country. It’s hard to fathom how young our country actually is.
We also took a photo with the oldest gas station in the city. It is non working FYI.
We had lunch close to the church in the first photo. We ate outside in a covered patio. During lunchtime, the center had a lot of homeless women and children asking for money. When children 5 years and younger walked up to our table, and asked for money, my oldest son looked at them and was shocked beyond belief.
After his shock wore off, he was so sad, he kept talking about how when he gets older, he’s going to be a scientist and save all homeless people from starvation. The site of the homeless children also had an affect on the other kids, but not as much as it did on our oldest son.
On day 155, one of the main purposes of this trip has been fulfilled, with one of our kids at least. We wanted our children to be profoundly affected by experiencing another culture. Today almost 50% were.
Before we left the city center, we bought candy to pass out to the homeless children, and by the time we got back to the center, all of the children were gone. We ended up sharing some candy with some tourists and their mom wanted to take photos of her daughters with our kids. We eventually did give the candy to a homeless woman and also gave her some money as well.
We headed to a place called Chorro a few miles away. This is tranquil area with a cultural center one year older than our house in Alameda.
We walked around there and came across a church built in the mid 16th century.
After that we walked back down the hill and walked to a park. The park was closed, but we walked around it and that was relaxing.
After we walked around the park, we came back to a small square enclosed area with what looked to be wash basins. A very old man with a guitar walked over to us and turned on the faucet that started filling the basin up. The kids loved it.
While getting the kids into the car, I noticed some very loud birds high up in the trees close by. I think they were egrets. Well, all of a sudden I saw a couple objects fall from the tree and give a loud smacking noise as it hit the ground. I walked over to the objects and saw it was two fish. They were eating dinner. 😀
We finally decided to head home. On the way back, we stopped at a street vendor selling tamales. The kids devoured them, I’m very impressed with how open they’ve been with the food here. The food here in Mexico is unlike any Mexican food in the states. I have no clue how we are going to find food like this back home unless it is home cooked.
The drive home was kind of nerve wracking but the sun gave a great show for us.
We had to make a pit stop before we got home.
On a separate note, today marks our 16th year being married. It feels like it was yesterday. I’m a very blessed man, and grateful to God for my bride. I found some photos of posted on Facebook and some I didn’t but wanted to. Happy 16th anniversary Bonnie to 60 more years with you minimum. *
Our Family Adventure 