Sunday, September 21, 2008

JOHN - September 21, 2008, Guanajuato

Last night we had our first real dinner party at our house with three other couples and their kids. One couple is from Japan and run a great sushi restaurant in the Plaza de San Fernando in town, another is from Mexico expecting their first baby in the next few weeks, and the third couple is a man from Guatamala and a woman from Chile. Two of the couples send their kids to the school Noelle and Aydan go to, and another lives on our street. It was a fun night and felt like we are making some good friends.

This past week, the girls had Monday and Tuesday off to celebrate Independence Day here in Mexico. Guananajuato and Hidalgo are the two key historical cities where the war for independence began in 1810. In that year, a priest named Miguel Hidalgo