Day 97

I went downtown with some friends, we saw some new things!

This guy

A new meat market, that the only reason I'll revisit is to take Josh back, so he can see the grossness on his own, a candy store, and these!

Wild parrots! They migrate through here every year!

Day 95 and 96

Monday Monday, means laundry... And I was supposed to clean the laundry room/maids quarters...yes we have a maids quarters... But no maid... Hence I'm cleaning... But, I didn't clean on Monday, because I slacked off... So I only did laundry...

Tuesday however I got my butt in gear

But bad news! I found a leak in the ceiling of the maids shower... Gross!!!

And I got a little bit of sewing done.

Day 94

The day we dropped them back off at the airport, the. Mostly vegged in the couch :)

We did make a quick trip to the grocery store...

This giant fruit was there... It's yuku... Yuk is right :)

Day 92 and 93

Friday, Josh worked all day again, but I took mil and Dave to the plant for a tour, they enjoyed it.

Then Saturday we headed to monterrey

Monterrey is in a valley, it's really neat how they have built up the mountains,  

Also this GIANT pepper came with my hamburger...

Day 91

Josh worked all day, so I hung out at home with my MIL and Dave.

We baked cookies

This was my test batch for Josh's bosses visit, he likes cookies, so I make some for him these ones were tough, so I switched back to my Recipe with crisco in it. And they were much better.

I also finished these two blocks,

Now I just need to embroider on the white one to make it a snow man

Day 90

Josh had the whole day off,
so we headed to a town near by where there is a winery, that we really enjoy their wine.
The tour was all in spanish, and we understood most of it enough to get the gist, and translate for Josh's mom and Dave.

They use these to make wine the old fashioned way

lots of wine sitting in barrels

these wine barrels are over 200 years old, they stopped using these recently can you believe making wine in the same barrels for over 200 years??

Then we explored the town, where they actually still have aqueducts!

that they still use!!!!

and this church on a mountain, we didn't go to it this time, because you have to walk up there, but on our next visit we will for sure!

Day 89

Josh worked in the morning, and then took the rest of the day off,
So we headed down town,
We took Josh's mom to the sarape museum

This is a Sarape, also known as a poncho, but they make other stuff now with the same patterns

We took them to the overlook so they could see Saltillo

and our course we took them to the cathedral

This Jesus is a little creepy to me

and they sure don't give you a ton of holy water

then we stopped by the artisan shop, where they make sarapes, its really neat to watch

they also dye and spin their own wool

We bought this blanket and a table runner, this is a heavy queen sized wool blanket

Day 88

Josh went to work.
So I had the whole day with my MIL and Dave.
So I decided we could do a little shopping, since its different in some instances than in the US.
Josh's mom was most amazed by the prices and that there was a walmart in the mall...
I bought some books to practice my spanish... they are for ages 2-4...

Also I forgot, we took my MIL to the sign the other day :D

Day 87

We decided to stop by a local market on the way up to the ski resort.
It was great and we will be heading back for sure!
Then we headed to the ski resort again, I wrote about it on day 79
This time we saw snow on the mountains!!!!

A traditional adobe mud brick house (a little in disrepair)

And we celebrated Josh's mom's birthday with the cake I baked on day 85

Day 86

Today is the day we pick up my MIL from the airport.
So after a few chores we decided to try out what we deduced was the "scenic route" to the airport!
It was scenic for sure, but I'm not sure its the route everyone was talking about. At first it was just scenic, then the road was getting repaved, then it was just gravel, and then we ran into some construction where they had rerouted an entire river to build some bridges.  Then there were places where they actually had the river over the road and then we kept going (there was no turning around now) and we came to a place where they must have had massive flooding and the the other lane of the road completely was washed away into the rocky river bed! It was the scary/craziest thing.
4 hours later we arrived at the airport, only 1 hour late :D
What an adventure!
here are a few beautiful pictures we took!

Day 85

The prep for my mother in-law continues.

But! Of course I had to visit my friends for coffee! So we sat outside and it was beautiful! But I did burn my part... Again.

3 hours later, I had to stop by the grocery store to pick up a few items to make my first German Chocolate cake.

I needed sweetened baking chocolate and evaporated milk.

So while in the baking aisle I found baking chocolate, but it didn't specify sweetened or unsweetened... So I called my mom to find out how I would tell, she didn't know, so I bought one of each :) then when I got home I called my sister, she helped, for future reference, unsweetened baking chocolate does not have sugar as an ingredient at all, all of the chocolate I bought had sugar. So then I had to choose which one to use, dark, semi dark, or milk chocolate. So my sister and I decided semi dark would be best, since it was kind of the middle ground.

Then my search for evaporated milk didn't end well... They don't have it, so I had to make it myself...

One hour later, the milk had evaporated enough to be evaporated milk... This cake took a lot of patience... I also had to make my egg whites into stiff white peaks...

The cake turned out good.

And so did the topping

And on my way to pick Josh up I saw this...

See the kid bouncing around in the car? Yes, seat belts kids, use the,

Day 84

The day started early with cooking dinner.

I touched beef today

Cut the fat off the brisket, it wasn't that bad, the fat was more gross than the meat.

Then I fried/seared the outside

Then popped it in the crock pot with a million other things

And waited 8 hours...

While I waited, I folded and ironed laundry, did some dishes, did some espanol homework, and I'm sure did a million other things...

Then after all of that waiting, 

French dip sandwiches 

They were ok... I probably won't make them again...

Then we went to spanish class where we reviewed chapters 1-5... It was miserable and I did horrible... Ugh

Day 83

I spent most of the day on the couch with a migrain.

Thankfully before spanish it subsided.

After spanish we went to the grocery store. We picked up a few snacks...

These are real cheeze it's!!!! Um!

Day 82

Laundry, chatting with family, espanol, and a little sewing, cleaning, so much cleaning to do before my MIL gets here saturday!!

Day 80 and 81

Rain, cold rain since Saturday evening,

So we mostly hung out at home,

And since day 81 was a holiday, constitution day, Josh had a day off work! Of course he went in, but he was only there for 2 hours! 

The. We finished watching the 3rd season of scandal, it was a good show,

But, the thing is, I think since we binge watch a whole show until we runout of seasons, it kills us, and the show. We kind of get tired of it after a while, but we are committed, so we finish it.

Then we decided to be american and head out to get pizza for dinner

Day 79

In prep for Josh's mom visiting we decided to visit a couple more places, to make sure they were worth our time,

We headed up into the mountains the drive was beautiful even though it was a cloudy day

Then we stopped by a ski resort

This is their wine cellar

A cozy fire in The dining room

And a rustic atmosphere

This is the ski hill... Yes that is something like AstroTurf that they are skiing down!

The sledding hill is more popular, we thought it was funny they had a conveyer belt In The middle for the kids to ride back to the top on.

These cacti are everywhere

On the drive we saw tons of fields of trees, fruit trees like for apples that they cover with nets to protect, instead of pesticides and etc.

And this sweet car

And a beautiful sunset at we headed out to dinner with friends