A social day

We had a really nice day Friday and it was filled with new faces. We wandered over to the square in the morning because we had heard there was going to be a Childrens Parade for Benito Juarez Day...but no parade. But since we sort of stick out as gringo's we met the Chief of Police as he was preparing his troops for reviewal by visiting dignataries for the day...Sr Hector Clarke. So now we are dialed into the troops at the highest level...nice guy...we chatted for a quite a while in broken English and broken Spanish.

Then he introduced us to the Director of Tourism for Alamos, and we chattted a while with him on the street and he gave us a few tips for visting local Pueblos for Easter celebrations...not sure if we can get to them though because we have no car.

Last night we went to a local bar for some live music from some ex-pats and met a friend Louise that we had been corresponding with via the internet for the last few years...she lives here. She invited us out to dinner and bocce ball on Wed to her ranch outside of Alamos...we'll try to bike out there.

The table next to us chatted us up, and they ended up inviting us to their house on Monday nite for movie and a pasta dinner...they are projecting "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" on the wall outside the house at dark...sounds like fun. And....we met the owner of our dream house...Casa Esmeralda...dining alone, so we invited him over to join us...all in all a busy social day. Lisa said she needs a few days off now.....