This is Mimi working hard to get us on the road to Mérida! It's really just a pic of our condo and how comfortable it is and why it is so hard to leave.

We did get going though, but not until 10pm Sunday night. We arrived in Mérida at 2:30am and spent the night at the Liverpool parking lot next door to the RV park. Hey, we're cheap and didn't want to pay $250 pesos for a couple of hours sleep. We moved into the RV park the next day.

Our meeting with the attorney was in the afternoon so we went over to see the house again. It's still a ruin and we still like it so that part is good. I took a lot more pictures but I will spare you most of them, just this one of the front of the house.

OK, just one more. This is the incredible tree that is growing on the wall of the house next door. It turns out that the actual house next door had a For Sale sign on it and we were tempted. On looking at the pictures though it appears that the lot does not go back as far as ours does and this tree may be on another lot off a different street. We mainly just loved the tree, the house didn't appeal to us much. We asked and there was already an offer on it so we didn't pursue it.

We met with the attorney and got to see his boss's private collection of Mayan artifacts. Pretty amazing stuff. We signed the papers for the fideicomiso and some other stuff and that was that. The actual closing will be in a few weeks and we don't have to be present for it.

The next afternoon we met with the architect and that went really well. He thinks he can start the design sooner than he had said originally. We talked about how we would live in the house, what we wanted to see and I warned him that I would be sending him a lot of emails with pictures and ideas. I hope I don't inundate him and make him crazy. It's a hard line for me, I have so many ideas and so many things I want to do there but I don't want to stifle his ideas. I wonder if I should wait to see what he comes up with first. I've never worked with an architect before, this is all new to me.

We also stopped at the Gran Hotel to make reservations for my son Dupre and his wife Ginny + their friends Scott and Lisa. This is a picture of the inner patio on one floor of rooms, are those doors not gorgeous? They are going to be in our condo next week and wanted to come over to Mérida to see this ruin the mom bought. I'm really happy that they are going to see the house and the city. I hope they love it as much as I do, in fact I really hope they will want to come and visit often.