More Mexico Trip

Sean's questions about that first trip to Mexico have triggered a lot of old memories. A couple of them center around our Christmas celebrations. The RV Park we were staying at near Guanojuato put on a Christmas dinner for us. The staff went out into the countryside around the park and picked wild poinsettias and laid them down the length of the table. Never having seen any except for the ones grown in greenhouses, it was quite a sight to see these bare branches with flowers on their tips. They roasted some of the scrawniest turkeys I had ever seen -- I think they may have either been wild ones or very near.

The other memorable part of being in Guanojuato was going on Christmas Eve to see the Mummies of Guanajuato! We had NO idea of what we were going to see! We were taken down a circular staircase to an underground chamber where we saw a whole bunch of mummified remains.

 The naturally occurring mummies date from a cholera epidemic in 1833. The bodies were disinterred sometime after 1865 when family members did not pay the tax to maintain the graves... Sometime in the 1950s, the locals began charging a small fee to tourists for viewing the mummies.

Not knowing what we were going to see, we were quite concerned about the impact of such a sight on our children. We held back from going up close and tried to be very nonchalant about what we were seeing. However, Daughter MM has very vivid memories of the mummies; the little Christmas tree we had on the tongue of the Aristocrat trailer; the handkerchiefs we put on our heads so that we could enter the churches and not being able to understand why people were so fascinated by her blonde-white hair.

Oh, what a blessed and wonderful life!