La Gruta by Day/Brigid's by Night

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After school, Jennifer and I headed down the street to where the taxis congregate and negotiated a ride to the La Gruta Hot Springs. It's about 20 minutes outside town, and the bus service there is infrequent. The taxi drivers were all congratulating our driver, the one who got the "La Gruta" fare, so I'm sure we were overcharged. However, the fare was only 100 pesos, the equivalent of about $8.00 - so $4.00 each plus tip.

We arrived at La Gruta just in time for the 1 - 2 p.m. waterfall that's turned on in the cave. The waterfall gives you a good massage that people line up for - it's only turned on twice a day. La Gruta is a series of thermal pools on beautiful grounds. The pools are all outside, except for the one with the waterfall, which is in the cave. You get to that one by swimming through a lighted tunnel. The photos are from another website and some are Jennifer's from her outing to La Gruta the day before Easter. Today, when we went, there were virtually NO people. It was absolutely WONDERFUL!! There was one sprinkle of rain an hour or so after we arrived, but then it completely cleared up and was sunny with blue skies all afternoon. We didn't want to leave, and we were just about the last ones out when it closed at 5.

Here are La Gruta photos

We took a bus back from La Gruta and cleaned up. Then we went out to dinner at Brigid's house. We met Brigid a few weeks ago at a Ladies Night in town. She mentioned then that she wanted to have a dinner party, so tonight was the night. We walked over to her house, which was just about a 10 - 15 minute walk. She lives in a nice little Mexican neighborhood and the way she has her house fixed up is really cute - great colors. Brigid is a retired PR rep and she bought a place last summer. She plans to spend six months a year here. She fixed a great lasagne and green salad, with wine. And we had carrot cake and coffee for dessert. It was a nice time! She suggested we go to a restaurant called "The Restaurant" on Saturday night, which is my last night here. So the three of us are planning to do that.

Here are some photos of Brigid's


Tomorrow I'm having a session with a great local photographer to get some tips on photography. His name is Al Tirado and he's a friend of Pat's, my landlady. I'm looking forward to that.