Mexico Revisited

Just last year I spent my birthday in Mexico. How quickly the time flies by!
On the Monday of my birthday, Lara and I took the bus into the town of Ixtlan, where they have a plasticsware store.

At the market place in Ixtlan

A tropical storm was passing through the area, leaving misty skies and occasional downpours. The bus into Ixtlan took us through several small towns and along twisty mountain roads. It was very pretty, but I was most happy to get off the bus. I enjoyed spending time in the store, visited the market, met some of Lara and Israel's friends, and watched the flag-raising ceremony at the local grade school. The children were beautiful, and I saw the future of Mexico reflected in their faces.

The front of their store

View of Ixtlan from their street

Street outside of the shop

Flowers at the local market 

At the store

The local bus

Ixtlan town square

In the afternoon Lara and I took a taxi to Guelatao, birthplace of their national hero, Benito Juarez.

Photos from the Benito Juarez memorial park

View of Guelatao

Another bus ride took us home, and in the evening we enjoyed a delicious meal of amarillo and homemade tamales that Lara's mother-in-law, Atonia, made for me, as well as a tres-leches birthday cake. It was a very memorable birthday!