Picking up breakfast across from the bus station
Mexican to-go cup
On the road to Cuatla
Doesn't this Santa just make it feel like Christmas here?
Baby chickens ouside a storefront in Cuatla. You're not to far away from the farm, even in the city.
School girls waiting for the second shift bus. The schools are so crowded here, that they operate in AM and PM shifts. The PM students go to school at 1:30 and leave at 7:30.
The second floor of Memo's aunt's house. The first floor is finished, but the second floor is cinderblock with a pile of gravel in the first bedroom.
Images of the Virgen Mary and Christ on the cross are EVERYWHERE.
A giantess among the little people.
Two Rios sisters and Memo.
Downtown Cuatla preparing for Christmas.
Taking a rest downtown while waiting for the mariachi's to warm up. Memo paid one of many groups hanging around the square to sing a song for us. It was Mi Linda Esposa and I didn't know whether I was crying because it was it was so sweet, or because the whole scene was so amusing.
Waiting for the mariachis.
We hired a tour bus and were taken to an old hacienda on the outskirts of town. cerca 1560s.
The hacienda. Tour was given in Spanish, so I don't have much to say about it, but that its old. Cuatla was the hometown of one of the Revolution's major heros, Emiliano Zapata, and much of the tour focused on his life and death.
On the bus back to town. We got everyone, including our guide and driver, to wear sombreros while Sixta and her sister sang along to well-known corridos, or folk ballads telling a story).
"Viva Mexico!"
Our tour guide.
Off the tour bus and walking through the market area to get to the bus station.
Sadly, it was an hour and fifteen minute wait, so I entertained myself by taking this photo of the ticket counter. The station itself was open on three sides to all the noise of the street. Its currently 5 hours later as I type this and I still have a headache.
Friday, November 25: JellyfishMariachi's singing "Mi Linda Esposa" (My beautiful wife) in the square in Cuatla.
Best viewed on a laptop, so you can turn your screen sideways.
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