View of the lake

 

 

The only thing that I miss at my house is the lack of a view. I had such beautiful views from my other two places. But today I went to my friend's house and sat on her deck. I got to see the lake again. What a gift. 

Lunch at Panino's restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

Dog for Sale

 

 

This dog was so cute. Wish I could have another dog here but Chico would have none of that nonsense. He is often still angry at the cat that invaded his territory. 

Three Kings' Day

Today is Three Kings' Day. It is the day that the children get their gifts, although I think they also get gifts on Christmas Day and also on the other days before Christmas when they break open the piñatas. Okay, children are getting gifts all the time during the Christmas season. I think this may be the last day. In the Ajijic Plaza at six this evening there will be a gift giving ceremony for the children. But I am too tired to walk down to it. It is also very hot today. The beginning of January and it is HOT here..... I wonder what May will be like this year.  

It is also the day of the special sweet bread that has six small plastic statues of the Baby Jesus in it. The six people who get the statues have to pay for a party on Feb. 3rd. They decide between them who will host it. Here is a photo of the bread. Unfortunately you can't see how big it is from the photo. It takes up a large part of the counter at my local grocery store. I also put photos on of the store and the cat that belongs to the owners of the store.

 

Three Kings Bread.  It costs 150 pesos. More than that if you are the one of the lucky or unlucky ones to get a baby Jesus.

 

 

 

Happy Three Kings' Day Everyone.  I am thinking that it MIGHT BE another loud party night here. I sure hope not. I have been enjoying my sleep for the past few days. 

Morning Thoughts -- Dreaming of Escaping the Noise

I spent much of yesterday and the day before that thinking of ways to escape from this noise. Several times I have thought about moving out of Ajijic because I know this is an expensive tourist town. Since I love swimming in hot waters, I imagined that Aguascalientes would have been the place to go. I have never been there but I read that there were lots of hot waters in that town, hot water swimming pools. But the more I looked into it, I couldn't find them. Just one. And in the photo it was shallow and filled with kids jumping around. So maybe all the hot water places have been closed down. One of these days maybe I will take a bus trip over that way and check it out.

I don't like big towns. From my perspective, Aguascalientes is a big town. It is also an industrial town, they make cars among other things. I read that it was a safe town. And then in a newer post I read that it isn't safe anymore. That it is a corridor for the drug traffickers and many people who once lived there have decided to move up to Texas instead. So, I have no idea about the safety. I guess I was so frantic after weeks of being blasted by loud music and drunken yelling that I wanted to just get away.  I spent a couple of days looking at the Century 21 real estate site and I found these gems.

 

 

The only way I could get them on the site was to take photos of them. If you are at all interested in them, you can see them on their site. This house is 3767 sq ft. Has 3 bedrooms, 5 and a half baths, on 31,086 sq feet of land.  The price?  124,365, that is in American Dollars. 

 

This is my favorite. It has a pool behind that smaller structure. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths, is 2265 sq feet and has 8,331 sq ft of land. The price??? 67,485 American dollars....  

This house is out in the country and has a huge patch of grass in front of it. Both houses have low fences around them. The rest of the houses in Aguascalientes are nowhere near as inexpensive or nice as these two. I looked at a few photos of the inside of the white one and what they show of the kitchen is like something you would see in a cheap motel room. Very strange for such a beautiful home. I tried to reach the agents but no luck. I sent many e mails on their site. No answers. I finally called. The woman who answered said she spoke English. But it wasn't enough to answer any of my questions. And my Spanish wasn't good enough for her to understand what I wanted to know.  So I imagine that if I moved over there I would finally have to learn to speak Spanish in order just to get along.

Now it has quieted down in my neighborhood. I decided not to go to Aguascalientes since there is a better pool here in San Juan Cosala and my rent is cheap. And I would be safer here. I can't imagine living out in the country, alone, with a huge house to take care of and a monster lawn to mow. Low fences. And not knowing anyone....WHAT WAS I THINKING???  I think I was just driven crazy by the weeks of noise. I can now understand how blasting loud music is a torture technique.  

So if you are interested in these houses, just go to Century 21 in Aguascalientes and maybe your Spanish will be better than mine and you can get some more information or photos of the inside of these places. Let me know if you have any success... Not that I would ever move over there, but I like to have a fantasy whenever it gets too loud over here.