Zumba and Guanajuato

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This morning, Jennifer and I headed over to Parque Juarez - a beautiful park that's between my casita and my school. Every Sat morning at 8:30 a.m., there's a Zumba class in the park, led by a man named Cesar. There are usually 100 or so people there. We participated and it was SO MUCH FUN!!! I could not take my eyes off Cesar (although everyone knows he's gay). He just has so much energy and looks GREAT doing these Latin dances! Here's a YouTube of Cesar. This video is a Zumba session with Cesar at the town center (Jardin); I couldn't find a good video of him doing the Parque Juarez class, but you get the idea...

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Unfortunately, Jennifer's illness returned. So she made it through most of the Zumba class - it lasts a full hour - but had to run to the "baño" (bathroom) a few times. And they charge for the baños in the park! She soldiered on though. We went to the pharmacia and she got some medicine and we kept going.

We took the bus to Guanajuato, which is about an hour away. I had been wanting to go there, as I'd heard great things about it. (I was going to go a week or so ago with my neighbors, Ron and Artha, the day we made the casita switch. But Artha was sick,so we didn't end up going then.) I really enjoyed the bus ride there, as it was just so nice to be out in the countryside after being in town for so long. We had gotten a late start, though, so we didn't arrive in Guanajuato until about 3 p.m. We took a taxi immediately to the Museo de las Momias. This is a museum of mummies - bodies of people that were buried in the local cemetaries but, because no one claimed them, the bodies were dug up. They were so well preserved that someone decided to make a museum with them! I had somewhat of a macabre fascination and wanted to see this. So you will too...

Click to see the Mummies

From there, we trekked to the Museo Ex Hacienda de San Gabriel. It was a trek because the map showed it right near town, next to a park. But it was not there. It ended up being a taxi ride to the top of a hill a few kilometers out. It was described as the old hacienda of a wealthy silver mining landowner, with a garden. But now it's a hotel with some gardens. The gardens were nice. (There were several weddings going on when we arrived.) We wandered around a bit and stopped for a beer - although Jennifer did hot have a beer. She had her medicine!


Click to see Guanajuato

We headed into town from there and stopped at a hotel restaurant right on the town's Jardin for dinner. The dinner was muy mal (very bad)! It was like a dinner you would get at Casa Bonita! Anyway, it was one of those days. We took the bus from town back to the central bus station and realized that there were no more buses back to San Miguel! It was 8:30 p.m. and the last bus leaves Guanajuato for San Miguel at 7:30 p.m. So, we ended up taking a taxi, which took about 50 minutes and cost about $22 each. It was worth it - we were glad to be back to San Miguel. I never really "got" Guanajuato, although we've since heard that you really need to go with someone who knows their way around because things are hard to find there. We had originally signed up for a tour with Jennifer's school, but they didn't have enough people signed up to do the tour. So we decided to go on our own. Oh well!! At least we had the ZUMBA.....WITH CESAR! YOWSER!!

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