Friday, January 8, 2010

A New Year and a New Apartment

Happy New Year to you all and to start our New Year we got moved to a bigger and fancier apartment. The first photo is what you see when you walk in the door, the first room is the living room.

And the dining area with a very small table. Works fine for Nancy and I.
And a huge, well furnished kitchen with more cupboard space than we have in our new home in Lethbridge.

And a lovely back patio and back yard with automatic sprinklers and in that area is also a washer and dryer. A pretty nice place.

There is not only good music in the Parian but many mornings, this group is playing in the central market for tips and they are very good. And such fun they are.

A most interesting way to deliver electrical bills. All along our street they were taped to the front of the electrical meter. Can you imagine doing that in windy southern Alberta.

Besides Nancy and I, the other two people are Richard and Kim and they live upstairs from our downstairs apartment. Kim is an artist and Richard is an almost retired Anthropologist who teaches at a small art college in Kansas City. He also made the website for the apartments that we are living in. http://www.oliviasapartments.com/. It is a very good website.

The lake behind us is Lake Chapala which we have written about in previous posts.

Yesterday we went to the center of Guadalajara, wandered around a whole lot, had lunch, and visited a couple of churches. This is the altar of a Church called St. Francis of Assisi.

On our journey from Tlaqupaque we pass one of the campuses of the University of Guadalajara and that stop is always a very busy stop, both getting on the bus and getting off the bus. The following photo is picture of the University of Guadalajara, the downtown campus.


And another church in downtown Guadalajara. This one is the Cathedral and if you click on the picture and make it large you can see a very old man on top of the dome cleaning the top of the dome. He was much older than either of us and we could see no ladder for his ascent or descent. We think he must have had some angel wings.


When we went to the center of Guadalajara with our boys we always ate in the same restaurant which was very good. But we thought we found one that might top it but we were wrong. The next time we go we will switch back to our original restaurant. This photo is the restaurant we ate in yesterday. It is so pretty and we thought the food would match.

Just a good photo of the central park in Guadalajara. Under the main plaza there is an underground shopping plaza and the steps you see in the photo are one set of many that go down to this mall. It is also a metro station.

We are on our last week here in Tlaquepaque and we are not looking forward so much to go home to the snow and cold. But not for long, as we are home for less than 2 weeks and we will return to the warmth of Mexico.
And another exciting happening in our life. Jill and Len Levere who many of you know are arriving Sunday morning to spend some time with us. With our new apartment we do have lots of room and we are looking forward to showing them some sights they may not have seen before.