Made A New Friend And Gave Her A Tour

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Our final happy hour at the last housesit on the balcony overlooking San Miguel.

And the last sunset there. 

First off, it looks like we may be here until the end of the year.  Our housesit will be in the U.S. receiving long-term treatment.  We will know for sure in about a week.  If so, one of us will need to go home to get some more and warmer clothes.  

On Sunday we went out for an inexpensive breakfast.  We had eaten at La Fondita before.  Strange little place with just a few tables up front and pictures of wrestlers.  The food is really the best breakfast we have ever had and the price is right.  So we're sitting there and this tall woman walks in with a backpack and asks the waiter if there is wifi.  He says no and she like, "well now what do I do?"  She looked at us and we told her how good the food was and she decided to stay.  We started chatting and come to find out Holly is from Wisconsin and is here to find out if she likes the town.  We ended up taking her to Atotonilco and Dolores Hidalgo one day, happy hour the next and so on.  She's a lot of fun and we know she'll love Mexico.

Holly is a wine expert and works for the country's largest distributor.  Part of her visit is to see if there is work for her in the Mexican wine industry.  We stopped at the Tres Raices vineyard.  They are closed on Mondays but they did let us in to take a picture or two.  Looks like a nice place and they also have a restaurant we would want to try.

We then headed to Atotonilco, which is mostly the church which is known as the Mexican Sistine Chapel.  The interior was hand-painted and is comprised of religious figures, scenes, and scripture.  There is a side altar covered in gold and the opposing altar is hand-carved wood. 

Dolores Hidalgo is only a short 30-minute drive with good scenery.  

There is a museum in Dolores but we think the municipal building has a better museum and is great for just mozying around.  The center courtyard is filled with the colorful "papel picado".

Dolores is known for its multiple flavors of ice cream such as avocado, shrimp, octopus, chorizo, ros petal, and even chicharron or fried pork skins.

The new house we are in is well-located.  A nice walk into the centro area and there is a gym right up the street.  We will go tomorrow and see what they charge and what they have to offer.  I've been doing my one hour and 20 minute speed walk and am finding that with the cobblestone streets it gives your ankles a good workout and will probably strengthen them a bit.

I haven't mapped out my route but I am figuring that my morning workout is in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 kms.  Not bad.