September Fun

September has been a pretty festive month so far.  It has been really enjoyable.  Classes are still going well and I'm enjoying them more as time goes by.  Earlier this month is looked like Christmas season with all the red and green decorations everywhere.  Sept. 16th is Mexico's Independence Day. 

I was in Cholula on the 16th with Pancho's family and we saw the start of the parade up close.  After the parade was over there were piles and piles of confetti all along the street.  The people certainly like to throw confetti a lot.  There were festivities all day long.  I'm glad that we went to Cholula.  It reminded me a little bit of Wheaton, the town I grew up in.  I loved the fourth of July because of the big parade and fire works show at night and how much the town came together to celebrate.  Cholula was a lot like that, it seemed like everyone in the town was together to celebrate.

Two days before that was my birthday.  I had a great first birthday in Mexico.  Pancho threw me a surprise birthday with his family.  It was really nice.  I very much enjoy being with the family here.  One new tradition that I learned is that when they bring out the birthday cake with the candles, before blowing out the candles I had to take off my wedding ring and put it drop it over one of the candles and then make my wish and then blow out the candles. 

I am really loving my horse back riding lessons a lot.  It's a lot more fun than I anticipated and I look forward to it during the week.  I've been going 3 or 4 times a week.  It's about a 40 minute drive, but I don't mind it at all.  It's really beautiful there and I like going there and getting out of the city.  And everyone that I've met via horseback riding have been so great.  I'm super grateful that I have this.

View of the city from where I take my horseback lessons.

Bigger view

Coming down from horseback lessons, looking toward a different direction than above pictures.

Pancho starts his full time job one week from today.  He is very much looking forward to it.  This past weekend he had given some lessons as a part of his part time job and he is really happy about how it went.  For the next couple of Saturdays he'll be going to a community and giving lessons about health and how to be successful in your lifestyle choices.  Pancho has certainly had some difficulties with this part time job, but it was great to see him on Saturday after his class.  He was tired but very happy with how well the lesson was received. Other than that, he's been busy taking care of things here at the apartment and playing tennis.  Today our hot water heater seemed to have blown out, so no hot water until it's fixed.  The flame kept going out this morning and then the smoke alarm went off and we smelled burning plastic and saw a lot of smoke coming out of the boiler.  There's always something to keep us on our toes.  But we're very grateful for where we are at and looking forward to Pancho starting his work.  :)