Morning Thoughts

I went to the Thrill the World dance over the weekend but left before it started. All I had was my i pad and it mostly took awful photos. There was such a huge crowd in front of where the dancers were preforming that I couldn't see them. So I finally gave up and walked home. I took maybe ten photos of various people while I was there and only two came out okay. I ordered two cameras this time from e bay. One new camera and one used camera as a backup. But I can't get them until I meet up with my family in Portland. In the meantime, I am going to have to struggle along with this i pad. It is a lot easier to take photos when there isn't a crowd in front of me and people aren't dancing. I was disappointed. For years I have always had a camera that worked properly in my hand during interesting events.  Here is the only photo that came out okay from that evening.

 

I took the next photo just now. Someone asked me if Chico and Olive slept together or were friends. I said NO... but look at this photo.

 

They are together enjoying the sunshine.

Okay, I have to admit that there is another reason I didn't stay and fight that crowd at the dance. There were some young Mexican men selling bedspreads. They had come up from Oaxaca, where they were made. At least that is what they said. They were all beautiful (the bedspreads and the young men) and I needed one for my front bed ( A Bedspread, not a young man) so I bought this one for 500 pesos, which is about 25 American dollars. Here is a better photo of it. So carrying that around made taking photos with my i pad even more difficult. Trying to hold a big i pad high over the crowd with one hand while holding a heavy blanket with the other was laughable....  It was a stupid impulse buy and after I had it in my hands I wondered about my sanity..... 

 

Morning Thoughts

 

Chico in the morning. He seems to be anticipating a fun day. Maybe a long walk?

We are in the midst of the Day of the Dead celebrations. Lots of people are out at night, shooting off fireworks and generally having fun. This evening  is the Thrill the World Dance at the Ajijic Plaza. It will start at five p.m. EXACTLY. I think it is one of the only events that always starts on time here. That is because the same dance starts all over the world at five p.m.

I always enjoy this dance. The dancers wear bloody zombie costumes and run around, scaring the crowd. One big party. The children love it. After the dance, they have a parade, most of them riding in decorated cars, to six corners. I don't know but maybe they dance there too. I have never been out that way after the dance in the plaza. Then they come back to the plaza for food and fun. 

This is a fund raiser for different charities in the world. Here it is for the Red Cross. 

Curious Chico in my garden

 

I am experimenting with the I pad camera. Chico is my test subject.

Ajijic Wednesday Market Photos

I took these photos with my i pad but I didn't know yet how to zoom in with it. I hope to get this worked out before Saturday. My camera still doesn't work at all. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nanette's Restaurant on the Carretera in Ajijic

 

 

The chef is on the right and the waiter is on the left.

 

Their back yard.

 

 

They have jazz on Tuesday evenings outside. 

 

My steak dinner

 

This is another photo of the musician but as you can see, my camera no longer works. It stopped working and now I get nothing but a white screen. The same thing happened with my last Canon Elph. I looked online for solutions and no one seems to have any. Other people have had the same problem. If anyone out there has a solution, please let me know. This morning I am walking down to the market, without Chico, to try to learn how to use my I pad as a camera. I don't want to buy another camera yet. Maybe I should buy an i phone. I am not sure what to do at this point but I will never buy another Canon Elph.....  

 

I just took this photo with my Canon and it is working. Maybe it only works with more sunshine... But I can't depend on it working for the Thrill the World dance that is coming up Saturday and that is in the evening.