Tom & Lori
San Miguel de Allende
Guanajuanto
Mexico
2008
The gates to Villa Xichu…our home for a week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
The villa owners did everything to make it feel like our home. They even posted pictures of us from our webpage on the refrigerator in our villa!
Our villa, Casa del Mezquite, was full of Mexican charm
Our welcoming fruit basket in the morning sun
Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel dominates the city skyline
Spanish colonial architecture of San Miguel
Tom at a public fountain in town
A common Mexican sight near the zocalo
Some of the many bell towers of the city
Soaking up the warm mid-day sun
Traditional antique masks of Mexican celebrations. Yes, we bought one.
Floatie boy at our villa
Relaxing in the hot tub at happy hour
Entrance to one of the many sub-terrain roads under Guanajuanto
It’s like a subway network for cars under the city
Lovely Guanajuanto, “top-side.”
Some of the many interesting monuments in Guanajuanto
If only he could sing…
Overlooking Guanajuanto
The city is truly an artist’s palette of colors
Famous Juarez Theatre
Tom gets his pollo for lunch
Self portrait at Callejon del beso…Alley of the kiss, where the houses are so close together you can kiss from house to house
More colors around every corner
Museum of the mummies…a tribute to the Mexican’s fascination with death
Yes, Lori is thinking there may soon be another mummy to add to this collection if Tom doesn’t stop taking pictures of them!
Mexico…we like this place
Arid terrain surrounding San Miguel
What happy hour in the dessert looks like
Tom’s preferred happy hour spot
On our villa balcony overlooking San Miguel
City skyline under a setting sun
The city is never without color
Making fajitas
The finished product
Relaxing at the villa
The Parroquia at night
Road trip to the Ruins of Santa Brigida silver mine
There is a lot to explore
And no one around, save one of the last surviving mine works eager to tell his stories…in Spanish
The mine kilns still survive
Lori outside the cathedral in Bernal
Notice the safety measures in place
The rock of Bernal is the 3rd largest “free-standing” rock in the world
Bernal is a sleepy, quiet village
First view of the Monarch butterflies at rest in the Mariposa pines
The millions of butterflies weigh down the tree limbs
Our 5 hour journey one-way to see them is nothing compared to their 4500km annual migration from Canada to Mexico
They look just like at home :-)
Nectar of the butterflies
The males die in Mexico after mating…sorry guys.
Our pee-stops….the aptly named Mexican petroleum chain
Tom’s incentive on the 5 hour journey back to San Miguel from the butterflies
More quaint cobblestone streets of San Miguel
The public laundry in town
A relaxing spot in the old convent
The many colors of San Miguel’s lively market
A delicious lunch
Sun setting on our happy hours at Villa Xichu