I woke up today around 9am and it wasn’t raining outside! (It had rained the whole day yesterday) So I was able to go out and workout with Andrew. Following our workout we went our separate ways to get ready for our trip to Las Aguilas. I ate some lunch and got ready because at 2:30 we were meeting up at the microbus stop. Once we got on the microbus we had a fairly easy ride to the bus stop and a fairly easy ride in the bus down to Izcalli. Manny was waiting for us in Izcalli and we took a ride in his taxi over to Las Aguilas.
We arrived at Las Aguilas with a few minutes to spare until our class started. To our surprise, there were already 3 girls playing basketball when we got to the court. Pretty soon there were quite a few other kids showing up and we began to shoot around and just let them do what they wanted. After 30 minutes or so we started the camp with some drills for dribbling, passing, and shooting. Following our drills we had a real game of basketball. It was a pretty long game and we wound up going over our ending time of 6pm by about 40 minutes. There were about 15 kids there today and they all seemed to have fun.
After we were finished with the camp we reminded the kids that tomorrow we’re having our second class from 10-12pm. We then left with Steve Carpenter, who took us by Home Depot to pick some supplies for hanging up a clothes hanging rod in his closets. Everything in Home Depot seemed more expensive than it is in the US, which was surprising to us. After this quick trip we went home to pick up Kay because we decided we wanted to go out to eat (we’ve been living with our Mexican families for almost 2 weeks straight now so we haven’t done much eating out). I also bought a tamale from a guy walking down the street for 10 pesos before we left. It was good, but I still haven’t found one that was as good as the ones I ate in Juarez last March. (The quest for the perfect tamale continues!)
Soon we left for a local mall here where we wound up eating at T.G.I. Friday’s (what a coincidence, since today is Friday). This restaurant was kind of like a club atmosphere as they were playing techno music the whole time we were there and the design of the place was pretty sleek. I took some pictures below of the color changing bar (I think it was changing colors with the beat) and the door to the bathroom (I thought it looked cool). I ordered arrachera steak (which I think is a specialty here) and it was pretty good.
During our time here, Kay and I went downstairs to a local grocery store called “Superama”. This chain of stores can be best compared to Publix back in the states. It was really nice inside and I finally found the peanut butter and fruit cleaner that I’ve been looking for recently.
Once we were done at T.G.I. Friday’s, we headed back to the casa and I pretty much immediately went to bed. It’s tiring being here since we’re trying to learn the language and adjust to the high altitude. Tomorrow we’re hosting our second part of our basketball class and running a class in Huehuetoca (so I need my rest).
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