Around Town and Around the House in Bernal, Mexico: Some Photos

It was very busy here, from the Equinox celebration through Easter and beyond. Mexican tourists flocked to Bernal:



Here's a view of the charming central plaza, called the jardin, which Kelly took in a quiet moment from upstairs in one of the buildings.



Our friends the Estrella family from Tequisquiapan, about whom I've blogged before, came to Bernal one Saturday afternoon. After we had a delicious meal of gorditas in a little cafe near the jardin, Luis and Kelly played music for a while on our upstairs patio.



And here's a shot taken at the same time, with Andrea, two of their boys and a friend, and our view of the town. The vertical line in the picture is our hot water heater overflow. Our hot water heater is not automatic, and has to be turned on and off as needed, though we keep the pilot lit.



We have been transforming our ground-floor patio quite a bit, whitewashing the walls with colored whitewash:



Here are the walls with our landlord's tall ladder, which Kelly used to do the tops of the walls, and a young cat who has come into our home. She is buddies with our landlord's cat and is in the process of learning how to get into the open living room next door, via the flat roof. Our landlord will care for her when we go back to the United States.



It's definitely spring here. I was going to contrast our spring with a snowy picture a friend sent me from Colorado last week, but I couldn't find it on my computer. He said it was supposed to get up to 45 that day. We were having a cold spell and it got down to 45 that night.