Javier y Norma

On Monday we had such a huge blessing. A week ago we met two complete strangers in a cell phone store. We found out they’d been married for going on four years and they found out we didn’t know the city very well and offered to show us around. They gave us their phone number, so on Monday we called them up and they were still very excited to be with us. We met them at the same cell phone store and wizzed away in their yellow VW bug. They took us to this awesome hole-in-the-wall restaurant that we never would have found on our own. They then took us all over the centro to awesome stores we’d never been in before. After that they took us to La Quinta Real Hotel, one of the world’s premier hotels. We didn’t check the prices, but we were guessing that it wasn’t in the neighborhood of 25 bucks. It was such a beautiful hotel built around an old bull-fighting arena. You have to see the pictures. It was such a wonderful day and made me realize something that I really missed: amistad – friendships…hanging with folk. This couple took five hours out of their lives for us and it was so refreshing…and tiring at the same time. So we went home. The next day, however, to celebrate our one-year-and-one-month-aversary, we went back to the hotel to the restaurant/bar they had there and had tacos and drinks. Before we went in, however, we went to the park across the street and it was one of the most magical places we have ever been. In fact, they call it the magic park...because two go in and three come out! It was the most romantic place. We could see one of the well lit cathedrals over the tree tops, exotic birds flew about, and the multi-color-lit, choreagraphed fountain spouted dancingly to music. We forgot the camera, so we'll have to go there again to show you some pics. O well.