Feh!

Another grey morning. Thick overcast from horizon to horizon, some 72 hours now without a hint of sun. I am on the 4th floor balcony and the mountains in the immediate distance are bathed in cottony dark clouds and it is nonetheless a compellingly beautiful sight. The city itself is 7000 ft up, so those mountains must be in the 10k ft range. Somewhat reminiscent of the peaks North Carolina, where the clouds dont roll in as much as you drive up to greet them. We're told that the alternative - the baking summer Mexico sun - isn't all that dandy either so we just take it in stride.

The city is not at all what I expected. It was declared a National Historic Something Or Other in 1929, and no new building has been allowed since. There are to be no stop signs and no stop lights, and all the very hilly and narrow streets shall remain cobblestone, and all the colors will be of a certain Mexican palette.  It is gloriously stuck in time, and is a complete break from the realities of the rest of the world. We have been treated so nicely everywhere, as Kirk points out that few people here seem to follow world events, so they are generally unaware what jerks Americans have been in the last 8 years! They do know that Texans are no good though, ha.

Prices for most things are moderate to very cheap. The bus into town is just 4 pesos - forty cents and a cab to any local destination is a flat 25 pesos - $2.50 USD.

I'll stop and post this now as Blogger is not as user friendly as I would like. Posts vanish (you cant clip and paste into the blog-writer field - a huge hassle), and some vidclips - we have many more than we can post - upload and after a long while are refused. After this trip, farewell Blogger.

We do have skype running if anyone wants to vid phone us, we are tomandcheryl1.

more later