FRIENDS IN MY HOUSE

Marty and Bill arrived safely mid afternoon today. How wonderful it is to have friends in my house with me. I spent the morning cooking a grand dinner: Mexican chicken with chorizo, spanish rice, and a vegetable dish Aurora taught me -- elote, squash and tomatoes -- plus guacamole and salsa verde. And I went to el mercado for fresh, warm tortillas. It was actually the first time I've really cooked since I arrived and it felt great.

Miraculously, water returned in the morning by the time I got up. What a great surprise!! However, it has now disappeared again. What I discovered though is that I do have water in the upstairs bathrooms. Evidently there is a "tinaco" on the roof which stores water, and that water just goes to the upstairs baths. I don't know how much water there is, so we are using sparingly. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

My big disappointment came today when I took Marty and Bill to the plaza in front of Santa Rosa church at 6:00 pm for a big "surprise". The big surprise was for me when NOTHING HAPPENED. Almost every day that I've been in Queretaro, I've gone to that plaza at 6:00 to hear music and watch the fountains "dance" -- most often it's been a famous aria by one of the "three tenors". Can't tell you the name of the aria or the tenor, but I've loved listening to it in that beautiful place. I asked the official looking guy who's always there, and he said the program has changed, and now it will play at 10 am and 11 pm. Extreme bummer! I believe here they would say "Que horror!"