"Si" - the kids' favorite word lately

22 Julio

Today is Monday and Aviva and Noah are at their Spanish camp/school, making pinatas. We had a very eventful few days, unfortunately. Katy got sick and hurt her head, and Tommy's dad came, and the three of them left. We will miss them, and things won't be quite the same without them. It is already much quieter.

Aunt Joyce's friend Beth is here also, and the 6 of us went on Saturday to a pottery festival.

We went to Mercato Abastos first, and from there took a colectivo to Tlacalula (not to be confused with Tlalula, or the food called Tlayuda). Then, a little farther is San Marcos Tlapazola, and there was the pottery festival. There was also a performance of dancing kids:

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  Noah got to try to make something with the red clay.


Then we returned to Oaxaca, in two groups. Noah and Joyce and Beth and I took a covered truck which I think was considered a colectivo but also sometimes used for animals. Noah got a big kick out of being unbuckled and in the back of a truck. I told him I wasn't worried because we weren't going fast, the roads were gravely and rough, we weren't going far, we were all together and there was another Mexican man with us, and he was close to me. When we got to Tlacalula we found Josh and Aviva and squished into a taxi again to go back to Oaxaca city.

Aviva, Tommy, Noah at
playground near our house

Just another pretty door

Our means of transportation
When we asked the price, we were
told 750 pesos per person (so it
would be 750 x 4, or $35 each).
When we said disbelievingly that
it was too much, he said okay, it
would be 30 pesos total ($1.50)

Tommy is a hand-holder

Tommy and Noah were doing
a lot of pokemon card play and
were talking about them a lot.
Aviva listened and told me
later, "megablaster E.X is
sooooo good."

This is our house

   

Our house

   

This is the hospital

   

Impromptu parade (one of many)

      

Aunt Joyce and Beth, on the bus

On the bus

   

This was the typical dress in the town of San Marcos
(braids with ribbons, plaid embroidered apron over
sequinned detailed fancy dress)

          

To get there and back from Oaxaca,
we took two taxis and went through
Tlacalula - Noah and I rode with
Aunt Joyce and her friend Beth in the
back of a truck

     

Walking around town

There are little cars kids can ride around

   
     

Aunt Joyce