Between a few all nighters, a medical emergency for one of my classmates, and nothing ever working properly --- this week was a rough one. So needless to say, once the weekend rolled around I was quite happy to “rest!!!” On Saturday, we got a group of 10 Thunderbirds and traveled south to Cola de Caballo. It’s a cool little park with several waterfalls – the main attraction looking like the tail of a horse – or cola de caballo. Once there, we hiked up a path not meant for hiking that led behind the waterfall. In fact, we had to climb through a hole in the barbed fence just to get going!! After a short, but intense hike, we wound up on a main road somewhere. Not wanting to hike back down the mountain we just scaled, we figured it’d be best just to circle back down the mountain on the main road. About half way down, some nice guy in a Ford 150 offered us a ride back down to the main entrance… so all of us piled into the back of his truck bed, said a little prayer – and twisted and turned back down the mountain! Once at the main entrance, a few brave souls decided to go bungee jumping! Deep down, I really wanted to try, but then I just couldn’t stop thinking about Mexican “quality” and Mexican “efficiency,” and I thought it’d be best to stay put!
After the hiking adventures in Cola de Caballo, we then decided to have dinner in a cute little town on the way back to Monterrey called Santiago. It was awesome. What a quaint little pueblo – very charming. It almost had the feel of one of those towns from the 1500s in Spain – like Toledo, (but don’t tell the Mexicans that I am comparing their town to Spain – they might come after me for that one)!! Or perhaps, I liked this town so much because it bared so much resemblance to the country that has claimed my heart – España!!! We decided to have dinner at La Case de Palomas (the house of Pigeons) – but don’t let the name fool you, I didn’t see one pigeon on the menu! Haha. The meal was fabulous!! Hmm, I get hungry even just thinking about it.
After dinner, we crossed a busy 8 lane highway to reach a bus that would take us back to Monterrey. While waiting for the bus, one of our fellow Tbirds, decided to take out his marionette that he just purchased, named Pedro, and entertain an extremely drunk guy sitting on the bench. Haha – hilarious!
So Sunday started off to be a nice day… except for the 25 mosquito bites I discovered on my legs! A friend and I got up early and tried to get coffee at several different places – but to no avail. Apparently, coffee in the morning on the weekends is not a big thing in Mexico – so we wound going to get breakfast at Subway. Haha – don’t laugh, Subway has pretty good breakfast! I know all my Mexican friends are quite disappointed in me that I am in Mexico, yet continue to insist on eating at American restaurants – but there’s just so many tacos and frijoles that you can eat, right?!!! My god!
Anyway, about noon, the nice day turned stressful when my friend realized he had left his designer bag, with several important credit cards on the bus from Santiago!!! Nightmare!! After engaging several people to help us out, including several Mexican friends, a couple Tbirds, and even a few taxistas, we wound up calling the main bus office, then trying to track down the bus on the main drag in Monterrey, and finally heading down to the main bus station in the city. When we got there, we were helped by a VERY nice man, who drove us to the lost and found, where we were able to pick up his bag … que suerte --- how lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And so now, we are all about to go grab a quick dinner and hit the books – literally. It’s accounting, I want to smash the book into a million pieces if I could! Haha. Hasta luego…
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