Old Friends and New

Yesterday was a day of mostly resting. We hung around the hostel and relaxed and I slept. I finally started to feel human again by late afternoon. We left the hostel around 4:30 to explore the town a bit and to meet my friend Geri for dinner. Geri and I used to work together, but about 8 years ago she got married and moved to Oregon so we don't get to see each other as much. She's here taking classes at the Academia Hispano Americano.

We were having a hard time finding the Academia, and were getting directions from all sorts of folks, but it was simply eluding us. Finally, we decided to just take a cab. He charged us 15 pesos, which is about a $1.25. As it turns out, we were less than a block away. Oh yeah...real smooth. Even worse, we had walked by it and noticed the pretty courtyard and went inside the courtyard to see it, not realizing it was the place we were looking for. GRINGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we finally got there and got to see Geri and have dinner. Afterward, we went to the Centro and the Parroquia - this is a beautiful part of town and the Parroquia is an impressive old church. There, Sierra made friends with Pamela and they spent the next couple of hours playing and running around while Geri and I visited with her grandpa Martin. It was a great time.