Day 471

Today while I did some cleaning and ironing, Mr did some lounging.

And some more lounging

Day 470

Anothe day in Mexico, and I found this guy, not dead in my kitchen.

As you can see in the shadow, Mr was not doing anything about it.

Day 469

I've been gone a little while, but I needed some time to get over a few things, and feel comfortable putting myself out there. 

So today is the day after my 15k and I loved/hated it and felt so accomplished when I finished I immediately wanted to register for anger race, so, I was doing research on a few events, and Mr was not happy I was kind of ignoring him.

Day 468

When I started running in Feb with my friends here, I said, I run 5ks, and nothing further. One of the girls was training for an upcoming 1/2 marathon and asked us to train with her, I said sure, but I'll only do the short runs, next thing you know, I'm running 8 miles, and signed up for a 15k. Now I'm not fast, but I'm not really slow either, 3 of my friends are faster than me, and 2 about the space speed.

We lined up at about 7:30

And Josh headed out on the course with some of the other husbands to take pictures.

About 9k, I'm pretty tired, since this stint is all up hill

Crossing the 10k timer

About 14k entering the stadium

And almost at the finish Line!

We all made it! Even with the rain, it was pretty good.

My official time was 1hr 37minutes 6 seconds

Average pace of 10:22, not bad at all

Mr was not impressed and instead decided to sleep on my workout clothes

Day 466 & 467

Friday was a laid back day where we didn't do anything noteworthy.

Saturday we were invited to a wedding in Monterrey. My first Mexican wedding!

All weddings are formal here, so a long dress is necessary, I wore a bridesmaids dress I had. You can also rent dresses.

This is the main chapel, 

Walking here from the car the plastic cover on the heel of my shoe disintegrated.

Inside of the church, not as fancy as I expected.

They also don't have attendants, no bridesmaids or groomsman. They did have flower girls.

It was a full catholic mass wedding in Spanish, I tried my best to follow along... Some of it was way over my head.

Then we went to the cocktail hour, it was on the top of one of the tallest buildings in Monterrey. 

We had drinks and hors d'oeuvres

No I did not eat this... It was raw fish. And I only drank water because tomorrow is my 15k!

When the bride and groom arrived they did their first dance, and dances with the parents, then it was time to go to the reception where dinner was served, it was 10pm, we didn't go to the reception because I had to be up early for the race in the morning.

Day 465

Mr spent some time outside hunting birds today

Then in the evening I went with my friends to the spa to celebrate one of their birthdays. We had facials, manis, pedis, and a massage, it was fun. We also had some snacks and wine.

And for the last two birthdays I made my friends key chains.

I got the idea off of Pinterest, but I couldn't find the exact stuff they had, so I improvised, but I think they turned out cute.

Day 464

Today was a lazy day, I slept in

And someone was unhappy I was in bed so long.

It rained a lot today, but we got a rainbow at the end :)

Day 463

Today I finally got up the guts to start quilting the King.

Thankfully the client wants stitch in the ditch, not anything fancy.

Day 461 & 462

Sunday I went for a run and other than that hung out at home. On Monday I convinced some of my friends to go to a silver store some of the other expats had been talking about.

I needed a cuff to cover my terrible watch tan line.

I picked this up for about $40

I also got my personal statement back from a friend that had been editing it for me... It came it's a lot more red than I expected!

Now I need to work on this...

Day 460

Our power was out most of the day because they were wiring in a new neighborhood. So I finished a book.

These books are fun and quick to read

Day 459

Today I went for a run with my new water bottle, it's giant

Day 458

Today we celebrated one of my friends birthdays, I made cream cheese Danishes

They were amazing, much better than they looked.

A tradition in Mexico is to shove the birthday persons face in their cake :)

We had a good time.

Days 453 - 457

After a slow weekend and a couple of days of chores, I decided to make pizza stuffed shells, I was pretty excited because I actually found shells at the grocery store!!!!

It was pretty good, Josh really liked it.

Day 452

I have been wanting to try making Perogies for a while now.

So today I made mashed potatoes and dough and started stuffing the pastries.

Then I had to boil them

Then we had to fry them.

They were pretty good, but they took a long time, and it was hard to get the dough thin enough.

Days 450 & 451

After another day of chores, and then Josh and I looked at a couple new houses.

Some neighborhoods have nice parks and gardens

On my way home I saw this,

Things here in Mexico get transported a lot differently

We also made a quick easy BBQ breaded chicken. Yum!

Day 449

It was a beautiful day, I spent it doing more chores, while Mr spent most of his day sleeping like this

Day 448

Mr meow and I are getting our chores done today...

Ok I'm getting my chores done, he is hanging out with every blanket we own.

Day 447

Today bright and early I ran the color run with my friends

This is my first color run!

It was fun!

I finished at just over 32 minutes, not a great time, but not bad for my first 5k in Mexico