Another very relaxed start to the day. Kids spent most of the morning watching TV & playing with Rodrigo. After lunch, they made their Xmas stockings with Auntie Susana! D&L left them to it, & got dropped in central Zacatecas to explore the city centre, & finish off their last bits of Xmas shopping. The streets & shops were full of people also doing their last minute shopping, & the traffic was nose to tail, at times - something that we ...

Lazy morning enjoying Mexican hospitality & domestic living - quite a change of pace after 3 months almost continuously on the move! Ate breakfast, drank coffee, chatted with family, cooed over the baby. And then the morning was gone! After lunch (spaghetti), the kids went out with L & Susana to buy felt, so that they could make & decorate their own Xmas stockings. Then they were taken out by Sofia & her boyfriend Josue to play in a park, go ice...

Up early, & with a purpose, as we wanted to get the 11am bus to Zacatecas. Schoolwork finished by 9am, so we walked into town to find breakfast. First "cheap" restaurant that we tried was closed, so we went to a bakery / café for eggs + ham / chirizo. Bought a few pastries for the trip, & had a chat to the owner, who lived in Vancouver for 9 months, so spoke pretty good English. Then back to the hotel to finish packing, hail a taxi, & we arrived at...

Woke just past 8.30, & slowly got up & started the day. L helped kids with their schoolwork, while D used the free wifi to check emails & update blog. Left hotel at 10 to find breakfast, & got chatting to a chap who just happened to own a restaurant a few meters away! Filled croissants (very nice - D had a second!), fresh OJ & coffee for breakfast - shame it was a bit pricey (M$350)! Once fed, we walked to the Museo de Aguascalientes to view p...

Another morning when we all woke early, so homework & packing were all finished by 9am! Walked across the road, to the plaza beside Mercado Hildago, & negotiated our way through a dozen women, all shouting & waving menus at us, to try to persuade us to eat at their stall! We sat, & had a fantastic breakfast (ham or chorizo + eggs + beans + café de ollo or freshly squeezed OJ - M$200 the lot!), then popped back to the bakery for chocolate doughn...