Domingo en Mérida

Mérida closes some of the major streets to traffic on Sundays -- at minimum, Calle 60 (normally a busy street) and the Paseo de Montejo, which is a pretty grand avenue, sometimes called the Champs-Élysées of Mexico.  So after a nice slow morning, we headed out on bikes.  Single-speed foot-brake bikes.  Took a few blocks to get used to them.



Reached Paseo de Montejo and found that there was a triathlon happening today!  There were lots of athletes riding fast on hi-tech carbon bikes on the road, and us on our beach bombers riding on the sidewalk.  We wanted to be part of the event, so we did the best and obvious thing -- took a break at Starbucks for refreshment while we watched them in an encouraging way.  It was an awful hot day for a triathlon.  When we got home we popped into our freezing little plunge pool to chill down

Stopped at Parque Santa Lucia on the way home.  Dance band playing, lots of people dancing... Katie and friends included!

Modern Art / Falling Pieces

Walking around town this afternoon, took a photo of a pretty much typical scene here.  Any block here might have a couple of buildings like this for sale, another actively undergoing some kind of restoration, a couple of houses for rent, a couple full, a small business or two.

Katie asked me to take this.  It is the wall of a building a couple blocks from here on Calle 70.

Later tonight, walking back from the ice cream store, we met a couple of the winners in their classes from the triathlon.  Nice people in great shape, carrying their trophies home, good for them!

School starts tomorrow.
What was I thinking?
Vamos a ver: es posible a transformarme en un estudiante?