As I said in the last post, I had started reading "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and couldn't put it down. So when I got up yesterday (Sunday), I wanted to start reading again but felt guilty thinking I should be doing other things like writing my blog, or studying spanish, or working on photos. But then I thought, "Well, who's to say what I SHOULD be doing". So I gave myself permission to spend the entire day reading -- I remembered doing that a lot when I visited my grandmother as a kid.
However, it was a beautiful day outside and one thing this house lacks is a place to sit outside and read. So I decided I would go to a plaza and sit in the shade reading. First I went to Jardin Guerrero where I bought a gordita for lunch and sat for a while reading. A young man was sitting nearby making a sculpture out of wire.
After an hour or so, I moved on to another place, Jardin Zennea -- but only after getting some popcorn to munch on while reading. Later I walked over to the Mariposa to get a fabulous capuchino malteada and settled myself in Jardin Libertad under the statue of Dona Josefa to enjoy drinking and reading. That was fine until a rock band with a terrible sound system started to play nearby. So I moved on to Plaza de Armas where I was just in time to hear one of my favorite tunes (I believe it's from Phantom of the Opera) being played by a trio of strings. They played a couple more tunes before finishing, and then announced that next week is a festival of baroque music. There will be a performance every night in a different cathedral. Not to miss!!
After reading for a bit longer in Plaza de Armas, I was a bit hungry so went to Chucho el Roto for a bowl of my favorite soup, creme of huitlacoche (corn fungus) and a glass of wine. I finished the book --- great ending -- and strolled back to Jardin Zennea to see what was going on. There is always some kind of concert happening there on Sunday evenings. This time it was a folklorico type dance performance by groups of young people -- the dances represented traditions from different states: Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, etc. Really lovely.
On the way home at about 7:30, I stopped to buy some pan dulce from the woman on the corner. What a great day! My favorite things; reading, eating, listening to music, watching dance.
Mi querida Nancy, disfruto muchísimo tus narraciones. Hoy visité Queretaro contigo, en cada parque, en La Mariposa, en Chucho el Roto, la música, la gente, el aire fresco.
ReplyDeleteLo disfruté todo contigo.
Esta noche Mark y yo tuvimos cena con Margarita y Miguel. Hablamos de ti y de tu blog.
Todos te queremos y te echamos de menos.
un beso,
mario