We saw this in a store the other day, isn't it August?? This is just WRONG!Well, another hurricane is running up the Caribbean and looks to be heading for the channel between Cuba and the Yucatan. Just in case it comes our way, we're going to drive over from Mérida Friday and put up the new hurricane curtain in the front of the condo in Akumal. Hopefully, it will just be a practice run.
We've been having a great time in Mérida. We went to see some live music (the Yucatones) and met a bunch of friends there, had a couple of dinners with friends, got to hang out with our friend Mary at her house and pretend it was ours. That was really cool. She and John have a house also done by our architect and it has many similar features. Just sitting around on the terrace, drinking beer and eating hamburgers was incredible as both Mimi and I got the feeling that it was just like we were in our new house. Now, we are really anxious to move in.
We went by today to show it to some other friends and (((there is water in the pool))) I don't know why that makes me so happy but it does. The color is great, the cool, clear light green of a cenote just as Henry promised. We wanted it to look natural and he hit the goal.
Placido Domingo is singing on October 4th at Chichen Itza. I think I don't want to miss this so I've got to get on the ball and get tickets. I've been waffling and today I saw in the paper that he might also do a concert here in Mérida. I think that I want that combination of the location and the voices though so I'd rather go to Chichen.
Did I mention that it is hot? Yeah, even I think it is hot. It's wonderful at night though, warm and silky, but in the afternoon there is just nothing to do but take a nap in the AC. Even the animals don't want to go outside between 3 and 5pm.
posted by Jonna at 2:27 AM
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WHAT NO Pictures of the POOL??
KW from Michigan
I was just working on a blog entry about the Halloween and Christmas stuff in Costco. I see great minds......Hahaha.
Can we have pictures of the pool pretty please? Just to make us a little more jealous? ;)
Fned.
We love to whine. No pool pictures?
I do not have trouble with the early Christmas decorations because it is one season I believe can (and should) be celebrated all year long. It is the Santa parephenalia I find disturbing. It really should be rationed out for, say, 5 days in December.
I'm not particularly fond of Christmas as a holiday but xmas in Mexico is better than xmas in the US. I like Pomp and Circumstance, and pageantry and little kids dressed up and lots of candles and incense and the Virgen in her xmas clothes. I'm not at all fond of the boring stuff and Santa Claus stuff up north. Unfortunately, Sr Claus has been added to the 3 Kings down here and we just get all of them. From beautiful latin hymns to really horrible commercial jingles - it's all here. It just shouldn't start until at least December.
Sorry about no pictures of the pool, I just went by while taking friends to the airport and didn't have the camera. I'd go back today, but it is raining buckets and lightning is flashing, I just got back online as we lost the sat signal for awhile. If you happen to look at a weather map, we are stuck like the jamon in a torta between Gustav to the east and some huge thing that just exploded in the Bay of Campeche. No wonder it's raining and grey - it's still pretty warm though.
The Christmas ornaments at Hallmark are almost displayed year round now. Most local stores start displaying Christmas items after Labor Day. They don’t even wait until after Halloween or Thanksgiving anymore. That’s wrong, just wrong!
The two Christmas’s I experienced on Isla were just wonderful. We brought no gifts and enjoyed the festivities of the locals. I loved sitting at a beach restaurant eating lunch on Christmas day with my feet in the sand.
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