From the Lens of Bill and Lynette's Camera

We certainly have not been wanting for English speaking friends. The first part of January, Jim and June Tagg, friends from Lethbridge arrived. They are here for a month and have their own apartment. Then on the 17th of Jan, Bill and Lynette Entzminger, flew from Hermosillo, where they are wintering. They stayed with us for a week and these photos are theirs.

The center of Tlaquepaque has many, many benches that Nancy and I like a lot, and this one is in a great location for people and car watching. The gal beside Nancy is Lynette.
We went to the market the first day they arrived and Lynette was most interested in this part of the chicken. Mostly the insides, including not quite complete eggs, the small orange balls in the pan in the photo.

More of the market, and the good looking guy is Bill.

And here he is again with more market stuff but this time in the back of a truck. Cow heads and guts being taken to a butcher shop across the street. The cows stomach is cleaned and dryed and used for a meal called Menudo. We see them all over.

The streets are narrow and there is no room to park so Coke figured out this machine for moving their product around. Lynette begged a short ride.

We did a trip into the center of Guadalajara and this photo is across the street from where we get off the bus. The horses and buggies are sitting in front of a very famous church.

One of the many, many parks in the center of Guadalajara. The main cathedral is in the background. The extra lady in the photo is June Tagg.

Lots of these types of stands. They squeeze the juice out of the sugar cane and sell that. They also just cut up the sugar cane and sell it in small squares.

Our second day we went to vist the Lake District and we visited two of the towns situated on Lake Chapala. This first photo is just a pretty store in the town called Ajijic (ah-hee-heek)

This is also in Ajijic. Three young boys were fishing and giving us information about the lake. Notice their fishing poles. Fishing line wrapped around pop bottles.

From Ajijic it is only a few kilometers to Chapala and here are two lovers under the sign that says "Little Corner of Love"

Another day and another journey, this one to the market at Tonala, just a short distance from our home in Tlaquepaque. A necessary visit while visiting the market is to the glass blowing factory that is pretty interesting.

Back in Tlaqupaque and every afternoon at 3:00PM, this all female Mariachi band plays in one of the restaurants close by. We were not hungry but they also sell two for one Margaritas so we quickly got thirsty and we so enjoyed the band.

Just more of the beautiful band.

We just can't get enough of the Mariachi music and Bill and Lynette enjoyed the music as much as we do. So two days later we went to the Parian and these types of photos have been in every blog since we have been coming to Tlaquepaque.

Happy hour at the Wollersheim's in Tlaquepaque. And we were happy.

This is a mural on one of the walls in the Parian. A mold was built, then poured with cement and then painted. It is quite unusual.

This guy is on the street everyday, advertising a pharmacy. He has many other friends than just Lynette and most of them are much younger.

Bill and Lynette went back to Keno Bay yesterday morning and we miss them. It was such a great and busy week.