Monday May 27

Up in time to get to Cruz’ place for breakfast. No matter that the men work and can’t be there, we are still invited for a meal.  Had more scrambled eggs with hot dogs and beans and torts. Coffee and milk. After eating we finished packing our things and were just ready to heft the backpacks on to our backs and here came Adan, saying I will take you to the bus stop in my car. Ok, sure. It’s not so far but the sun was shining brightly and was warm already.  Waited for maybe half hour for abus and came back here to El Fuerte. We decided to just come back here again because Mabel needed time to get ready to leave on Tuesday and also wasn’t sure what we would do for another day here really. Really  had several other choices , but Merv also has some business he needed good internet service for. So we got another hotel here. A gorgeous lovely place. Designed the way they are here in the south. Rooms all open onto a open air patio. There is secure fencing surrounding the outside of the hotels. Come in at the front through a barred door, enter the lobby, and then enter the patio where the rooms open from through another gate.  There is a small clean pool here that the children have spent lots of time in. Several large mango trees, several lime trees, quite a number of flowering bougainvillea, and other flowering / tropical plants. There are metal chairs set all over out here. A gazebo type place with a hammock and chairs there close to the pool. Lights strung from the trees and hanging under the roofs in front of the room doors. I hear the lizards chirping here after dark. It’s quiet in here, noisy in the street, and a very pleasant temp.
We were very lazy this afternoon. Napped, drank cokes, made a few minor purchases. Ate tacos for supper. Ordered 21 tacos and 5 cokes and spent $20. Bought a few things for breakfast on the train in he morning. We need to leave here by 7 or shortly after. Just trying to firmly plant these pictures in my mind of this trip and this experience. We will never have it again!