Carolyn thought she had died and gone to heaven when she arrived as Juan Carlos (Olivia's husband) has a horse and a cart that he uses every day to haul junk. Much different than her horse and carriage but wonderful to Carolyn just the same.
And for sure she needed a ride with Juan Carlos and these next three photos show part of that ride. He actually took her all around the block.
The Cathedral in downtown Guadalajara. It is very easy to get to the center of Guadalajara from here so we went more than once.
This is a very famous mural, painted by Jose Clemente Orozco in the Institute Cultural de Cabanas in downtown Guadalajara
A photo of the church steeples, taken through the arches of the previous mentioned building.
The Teatro Degallado, very old and very beautiful. David and Terry were lucky enough to have it be open when they were in Guadalajara and they got to see inside. It is not open to public often. And those people standing outfront are Gary and Andra and Brian.
Those same 3 people infront of an interesting sculpture in the Plaza Tapatio.
At the end of the Plaza Tapatia, we could see this huge tent like structure long before be got and and low and behold it was a skating rink. Outside in 30 degree weather. It was Saturday and the place was jammed with long lines waiting to get on. We doubt many of the skaters would have made the NHL.
Gary and Brian, sitting at the end of the skating rink on one of Sergio Bustamonte's famous bronze sculptures
It is always hard to take a photo in the inside of a church, mostly because of lack of light but here is an attempt at the inside of the Cathedral in Guadalajara.
A pretty girl (Andra) a pretty fountain and the front of the Cathedral,
There was a photo like this in Part 1 of these blogs but the girls are so pretty and the music is spectacular we thought we needed another photo. Sometime I am going to try to upload some of their music on You tube and if it works, we will send it to all of you.
A street scene in Tlaquepaque. Notice the school uniforms.
Once again, Juan Carlos and his horse. Every day he goes out, looking for stuff to haul and for one load he gets 300 pesos or about $25.
Wiring Mexican style. This particular group of switches and plug ins are used for the stalls that set up only on the weekend.
Nancy has favorite places to buy things in the market and this is the place where she buys her vegetables. It does not seem to matter how much and what you buy, the price is always 30 pesos, about $3.00
And these are cacti, of which Nancy makes and excellent salad that even I, the anti vegetable person, likes.
It seems most tortillas are made by hand, one at a time, but this particular machine does it automatically. The dough goes in at one end and the cooked tortilla comes out at the other.
Any of you that have butchered an older chicken that is female will have seen these. They are the undeveloped eggs, that in a few days, if the chicken was alive would be eggs you would use. Here these eggs are used, just like they look in this photo, cooked and eaten with the chicken.
The main market in downtown Guadalajara is huge and everything imaginable is for sale. This photo only shows a very small part of it.
And this one shows my favorite part of it. I am sure a whole square block of nothing but saddles and bridles and boots and anything imaginable that deals with horses.
No farrier for Juan Carlos when he has to shoe his horse.
Two blogs in one day is too much so we will quit for now. Our next blog will be with my brother Dave's photos.
2 comments:
Had a great time. Great choice of photos for the two blogs; thanks.
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