New House Paint & Our Trip to DF

Our landlords (and owners of the house) left on the 4th of July for Spain where they typically spend 6months or so a year since like Antoine and I they are bi-cultural, but in their case, Spanish and Mexican.  But before they left, Miguel decided it was time to paint the wall of our house.  We are lucky to have our version of Diego Rivera!  I must say that I liked the wall before, which was painted white with kind of a dark red sponged on leaf pattern:

Now it is much more colorful.  It is sort of an abstract "EKG" pattern in violet, green and orange!  Sounds kind of crazy but it is growing on me.  The colors coordinate with the flowers painted on the house itself:

And I must say it makes it easy to describe to taxis when they pick us up or drop us off!  So, which one do you like better?

Meanwhile, we just got back from Quertaro from our three month In-Service Training.  It was nice to see group member from PCM-12 (our group name) and catch up on what they are up to with their assignments, and it was pleasure to spend some more time in Queretaro.  That said, I was glad when training was over!  Now we don't have any more training until what is called mid-service training next April, and I think most of that is focused on dental and medical check ups.

After Queretaro, we we lucky because we had an additional week off as our center in Guanajuato was closed.  We had booked a suite hotel in the Zona Rosa for 5 nights.  We had a great time despite the fact that I caught a nasty cold during training from one of the other volunteers and it seemed to morph into a stomach flu.  So a lot of our plans for checking out ethnic restaurants seemed a lot less appealing than anticipated. By the end of the trip, unfortunately, Antoine caught the bug as well and is just now starting to feel a bit better!  So our first Mexico vacation wasn't necessarily a roaring success, but it was still nice to have the break.  We were feeling well enough to have dinner twice with some volunteers who were in town from Guadalajara.  They were great to get to meet since they are another couple around our age, and since they will be extending a year and moving to Queretaro, we may have  a chance to see other again hopefully!

The last day before returning to Guanajuato, I was feeling well enough to visit the Anthropology Museum which is always a treat-I especially love the Mayan section.  Here are some photos to enjoy from this splendid museum: