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| First day! |
After Newel and the rest of the family went back to the States, we were back to our "normal" life in Mexico. By this time, the kids's Spanish language skills had improved significantly. In the summer time, the school next to our place had a summer program and we enrolled the kids in it. The program was for 2 weeks. It was great for the kids and for the moms. We all got a break.
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| Dancing |
They mostly did arts and crafts. What I was mostly interested was for Arden and Maya to improve their Spanish. Arden didn't really want to go at first, but then he made a little friend named Diego and he did well.
We had some outings to the local parks...Maya and Eliza really enjoyed dancing to the music of the musical fountains. I helped Margarita learn how to drive, although it was kind of tricky because there weren't too many places for us to drive. So we just went around and around the church parking lot, until we got dizzy. I also drove around, quite a bit...I know, in that crazy traffic. But believe me, there is organization in all that madness.
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| Party Time |
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| Playing games |
On Danna's birthday, we went to some place (I can't remember the name of the place) at the mall to celebrate her birthday. We played games, the kids won prizes, and overall had a great time. We also treated the Ocampos to pizza and bought Danna a small cake just for her.
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| People watching |
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| Casa Borda |
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| The beautiful grounds |
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| El Mexicano |
A few days later, I ventured to go out with the children all on my own. I had a bit of an upset stomach (one of the only 2 times I had an upset stomach in MX), but that didn't stop us. We took the bus to the zocalo in Cuernavaca and hit the Casa Borda. Before we hit the Casa Borda, the kids and I treated ourselves to some burgers and just relaxed while we 'people watched' pass by the cathedral. The grounds of Casa Borda were beautiful, and again, it was a house that was over 300 years old...and still in use. It had multiple fountains, including its own man made pond we could canoe...but didn't. I had a great time going out with just Arden and Maya. We didn't get lost on the way there and back. This gave me some courage to be more adventures for the remaining weeks we had.
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| Ice cream time! |
Once we were back in our neighborhood, the kids were not ready to go home yet, so we treated ourselves to ice cream at our favorite ice-cream parlor. Oh, we also stopped by the pirated music/movie store and bought some sweet movies for less than a dollar each...What a day!
After Newel and the rest of the family went back to the States, we were back to our "normal" life in Mexico. By this time, the kids's Spanish language skills had improved significantly. In the summer time, the school next to our place had a summer program and we enrolled the kids in it. The program was for 2 weeks. It was great for the kids and for the moms. We all got a break. 
We had some outings to the local parks...Maya and Eliza really enjoyed dancing to the music of the musical fountains. I helped Margarita learn how to drive, although it was kind of tricky because there weren't too many places for us to drive. So we just went around and around the church parking lot, until we got dizzy. I also drove around, quite a bit...I know, in that crazy traffic. But believe me, there is organization in all that madness.
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