Bill's Blog

Doing Nothing

Totally and utterly relaxing, that is what Cuernavaca has been for me. All I have been doing is nothing, and I have been enjoying every minute of it. There is a pool here. I have been soaking up the sun and swimming. In the evenings, might go out to a movie or dinner. The place is simply beautiful with flowers in bloom everywhere. The sun shines everyday and the temperatures are perfect, dipping into the 50's a night and rising into the 80's during the day. I have been doing some cooking. We took a couple of cooking lessons. Now going to a cooking school - that is something I could really enjoy. I thought that we would get busy this week, but it has not happened yet. Well we did visit a nice museum, Robert Brady Museum, yesterday. It has a great art collection. Brady was an American artist that lived here for years working and collecting art.

Betty signed up at a Spanish language school for two weeks. She finished up last Friday. She gets all stressed out when she studies, so I cannot see why she bothers. We took the cooking classes through her school. She made some good friends, like Megan Cowell of Iowa and Patrick Scott. Despite his day job, he is secretly an artist. You can see some of his sculptures at patrickscottart.com.

The school had a party for all the students last Thursday. During that week there was a large group of high school students from Vancouver. There were decent Margaritas for the adults and some tasty food for all. They had a Mariachi band and dancing. Later the kids broke several Piñatas and devoured the candy inside. The strangest thing occurred at the party. A couple, Arturo and Elena, turned to us and asked if I remembered meeting them at La Viruta last August, one night when Birgitta and I visited my favorite Tango club in Buenos Aires.

Megan Cowell	Betty and Liz at School	Arturo and Elena	Senoras at the Fiesta
Party Musicians	Dancing	And More Dancing	Even Me and Wallie
Piñata Gathering	With Club in Hand	Whirling in the Dark	With Sweet Rewards

Speaking of Buenos Aires, I must say that we really miss our friends and the city. We are constantly comparing Mexico to Argentina. Mexico seems to come up short all the time. So, Argentina is really a part of us now. Some things we miss more than others. The thing that we missed the most is being there for our friends, Javier and Gillermina. Their first child was just born a few days ago. His name is Fermín Burgos. The message the Javier sent us a few days ago follows:

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Posted by bill at March 24, 2006 12:37 PM