UNEXPECTED CHALLENGE!!!

When I got up this morning, I decided on my two challenges: 1. Find a pottery cassarole pot I had seen somewhere in town because I was going to need it to cook this chicken and chorizo dish I planned to make for Marty and Bill's welcome to Mexico dinner tomorrow; and 2. Take pictures of Silviah's family when I went over there for dinner in the afternoon.

Well, I walked all over town and could not find the store with the pottery cooking pots. I will probably come across it again sometime, but for now I'll have to make do with what's in the house which is not a lot in the way of cooking pots. I did stop at el mercado and bought some chicken. While I was waiting my turn, I had to watch the chicken man chop the beeks off of dead chicken heads for a young man who was obviously shopping for his abuela who was probably using them to make caldo.

When I returned home mid day, I found UNEXPECTED CHALLENGE numero 3!! I went to turn on the faucet to wash my hands ---- no water!!! So I called Jorge Luis (the lovely man who is the caretaker of the casa) and he advised me to ask some neighbors if they had water (category: Spanish challenge) so I did, and found they had no water either. Jorge Luis came over and called the Comision Estatal de Agua and found out that, yes indeed all of El Centro has no water for 2 days, and that this had been advertised on radio, TV and newspaper for several days -- some repairs being made. So people who knew about it had been saving up buckets of water to use for the 2 days.... but obviously not me. Supposedly we will have water Friday evening ---- but I've learned not to expect things to go the way one is told they will go.

So Marty and Bill arrive tomorrow ---- Bienvenido a Mexico --- sin agua.

Anyway, in the afternoon I walked over to Herminia's (Silviah's mother), and had a lovely dinner. On the way there ( about a 45 minute walk) I pass a great view of the aqueducto built by the Spaniards centuries ago to bring water from the hills into the La Cruz Monastery. El aqueducto is the symbol used by Qro.