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+ <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-12-21T21:11:42" itemprop="datePublished">December <span>21, 2018</span></time>
+ <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span>
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+ <p>For months Elliott said he wanted to spend his birthday at the beach. I would have settled for a birthday in the bus, but even that doesn&#8217;t seem to happen for us. Luckily he let the beach idea go a while back because I didn&#8217;t have the heart to break it to him that generally speaking, those of us with birthdays in December do not get to spend them at the beach. Unless we go to Australia.</p>
+<p>It might be warm enough for the beach down in the Yucatan, but around here winter is much colder than I expected. I&#8217;m not alone. It&#8217;s common to see tourists shivering in thin jackets because they thought Mexico was always warm, even in December. But here it&#8217;s in the 30s at night. By the middle of the afternoon it&#8217;s typically 75, but the combination of long shadows and concrete construction often conspires to leave you shivering in the sunshine. Not beach weather by any stretch of the imagination. Still, it beats last year by a long shot. </p>
+<p>One day Elliott and I will spend a birthday in the bus, but this year, like last, we were homeless for our birthday. This year, like last, we spent our birthday in a friend&#8217;s house. This time though we had it to ourselves. We were fortunate they offered it to us while they went back to the states for December because otherwise I&#8217;m not sure what we&#8217;d have done. Our Airbnb rental ended and our longer term place wasn&#8217;t ready when we were told it was going to be ready. The latter wasn&#8217;t surprising, but for some reason we were naive enough to think it would be different for us. When our friends said hey, you can stay in our place, we jumped at the opportunity. Who says no to a place up on a hill overlooking the city? Life is rough on the fun side of the wall.</p>
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+<p>This year I got to play Santa Claus &#8212; which we have never done because we don&#8217;t like lying to our kids. To their credit, thus far, our kids, despite knowing Santa is not real, have never told any other kids that he didn&#8217;t exist. That I know of anyway. This year I made a quick trip up to Denver just before our birthday, and, while officially a work trip, it became a way to haul a load of birthday and Christmas gifts back down to Mexico, which left me feeling a bit like Santa.</p>
+<p>Before Christmas though, two birthdays. We did our balloon ritual but in the vastness of a house it somehow loses something compared to the bus. This time though the girls helped me inflate balloons and pile them on top of Elliott in the morning.</p>
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+ <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday.jpg " title="view larger image">
+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a birthday in Mexico without a pinata. This one was somewhat easier to come by than the pinata we somehow managed to come up with in the UP, but no less appreciated.</p>
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
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+ <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181220_135546956_pic66.jpg" alt="eating candy photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181220_135546956.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a>
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+
+<p>Happy birthday little man and one day, I promise, we&#8217;ll spend our birthday at a nice, warm, tropical beach.</p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="entry-footer">
+ <aside id="wildlife">
+ <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li class="grouper">Birds<ul>
+
+ <li>American Coot </li>
+
+ <li>Bewick&#x27;s Wren </li>
+
+ <li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher </li>
+
+ <li>Broad-billed Hummingbird </li>
+
+ <li>Cassin&#x27;s Kingbird </li>
+
+ <li>Cattle Egret </li>
+
+ <li>Crested Caracara </li>
+
+ <li>House Sparrow </li>
+
+ <li>House Wren </li>
+
+ <li>Inca Dove </li>
+
+ <li>Northern Shoveler </li>
+
+ <li>Ring-necked Duck </li>
+
+ <li>Ruddy Duck </li>
+
+ <li>Vermilion Flycatcher </li>
+
+ <li>Violet-crowned Hummingbird </li>
+
+ <li>White-faced Ibis </li>
+
+ <li>White-tailed Kite </li>
+
+ <li>White-winged Dove </li>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ </aside>
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+Four
+====
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2018/12/four>
+ Friday, 21 December 2018
+
+For months Elliott said he wanted to spend his birthday at the beach. I would have settled for a birthday in the bus, but even that doesn't seem to happen for us. Luckily he let the beach idea go a while back because I didn't have the heart to break it to him that generally speaking, those of us with birthdays in December do not get to spend them at the beach. Unless we go to Australia.
+
+It might be warm enough for the beach down in the Yucatan, but around here winter is much colder than I expected. I'm not alone. It's common to see tourists shivering in thin jackets because they thought Mexico was always warm, even in December. But here it's in the 30s at night. By the middle of the afternoon it's typically 75, but the combination of long shadows and concrete construction often conspires to leave you shivering in the sunshine. Not beach weather by any stretch of the imagination. Still, it beats last year by a long shot.
+
+One day Elliott and I will spend a birthday in the bus, but this year, like last, we were homeless for our birthday. This year, like last, we spent our birthday in a friend's house. This time though we had it to ourselves. We were fortunate they offered it to us while they went back to the states for December because otherwise I'm not sure what we'd have done. Our Airbnb rental ended and our longer term place wasn't ready when we were told it was going to be ready. The latter wasn't surprising, but for some reason we were naive enough to think it would be different for us. When our friends said hey, you can stay in our place, we jumped at the opportunity. Who says no to a place up on a hill overlooking the city? Life is rough on the fun side of the wall.
+
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel.jpg" id="image-1820" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel.jpg" id="image-1799" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502.jpg" id="image-1821" class="picwide" />
+
+This year I got to play Santa Claus -- which we have never done because we don't like lying to our kids. To their credit, thus far, our kids, despite knowing Santa is not real, have never told any other kids that he didn't exist. That I know of anyway. This year I made a quick trip up to Denver just before our birthday, and, while officially a work trip, it became a way to haul a load of birthday and Christmas gifts back down to Mexico, which left me feeling a bit like Santa.
+
+Before Christmas though, two birthdays. We did our balloon ritual but in the vastness of a house it somehow loses something compared to the bus. This time though the girls helped me inflate balloons and pile them on top of Elliott in the morning.
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+It wouldn't be a birthday in Mexico without a pinata. This one was somewhat easier to come by than the pinata we somehow managed to come up with in the UP, but no less appreciated.
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+Happy birthday little man and one day, I promise, we'll spend our birthday at a nice, warm, tropical beach.
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+ <p>On December 9th, 1531 Juan Diego was walking up the hill of Tepeyac, just north of Mexico City, when a woman appeared to him and, speaking in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec empire, told him she was the Virgin Mary. She then asked him to have a church built on that site to honor &#8220;her native religion&#8221;. </p>
+<p>Diego then went to the archbishop of Mexico City several times with the message, but the archbishop did not believe him. Finally, three days later, after some other trials, a miraculous death bed recovery, and non-native roses blooming at 7500 feet in December, Diego delivered a shroud with an imprint of the Virgin Mary to the archbishop who finally believed him and thus was born the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Marian vision that is the cornerstone of Mexican Catholicism. </p>
+<p>This, far more than Christmas, is what Mexicans celebrate in December. In San Miguel the neighborhood of San Antonio is home a blessing of the horses, which involves basically every horse in the nearby countryside coming into San Antonio to be blessed. </p>
+<p>I think. The truth is, we lacked the necessary Mexican sense of patience to see this one through. We saw the horses lined up, but even our horse obsessed daughter was ready to go long before any of them were actually blessed.</p>
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+<p>I never did figure out what Guadalupe has to do with horses, other than she has to do with everything in some way, but I did do a good bit of research on her, in part because I think 300 years from now she will be the focal point of this religion.</p>
+<p>The story above is the purely Catholic version of events. Alas, any other version of these events, including that of Juan Diego in his own words, is lost to time. I mention this not because I do not believe the story as it is, it is, to my mind, as likely as any other. For historical completeness it might be worth noting though that even most Catholic historians doubt the authenticity of story of Diego. Still I&#8217;m happy to accept the story in full, it&#8217;s the name of the goddess that I think is worth quibbling about. </p>
+<p>One of the reasons Catholicism was so successful is that no other sect of Christianity is so good at taking what&#8217;s already in place and tweaking it slightly to fit with Catholic doctrine. And prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the very same hill where Mary appeared to Diego was rather well know for as the home of the goddess Tonantzin, who regularly appeared to travelers. While there is no English translation, I have seen several second hand sources quote Juan de Torquemada &#8212; whose epic tome <em>Monarquía India</em> is apparently one of the more complete histories of early Mexico &#8212; as saying that the goddess Tonantzin regularly appeared to the natives on that hill &#8220;in the form of a young girl in a white robe.&#8221;</p>
+<p>If you wanted to tweak that existing story to fit Catholic doctrine all you need to do is swap some names and you&#8217;re away. Next thing you know you&#8217;re feeling quite justified in tearing down the temple of Tonantzin to build a church for Our Lady of Guadalupe, as she is now known. </p>
+<p>Monotheistic religions that want sole claim to the capital T truth have a hard time accepting this, but religions are always changing, always in flux. Gods and goddesses come and go throughout time. Whatever essential mystery is behind them seems to remain. One of the advantages of polytheism is that this truth can be easily accepted. </p>
+<p>I point this out not to mock anyone&#8217;s faith, but because I find the Mexican version of Catholicism fascinating and a bit confusing because, well it isn&#8217;t what most Americans or Europeans would recognize as Catholicism. Here Catholicism seems to be the thinnest of veneers over a much, much older set of gods, goddesses and religious practices. </p>
+<p>But Mexicans are adept at adapting and incorporating, so it all blends and molds together into a cohesive whole that makes sense when you see it, even if you probably couldn&#8217;t put it in words. Still, everything is changing and I think if you come back in 300 hundred years you&#8217;ll find worship of Jesus has been replaced with worship of Maria &#8212; and only those of us on the outside would think this odd. Arguably it&#8217;s already that way. </p>
+<p>That&#8217;s not to say Mexico does not celebrate Navidad. It does, complete with lit up trees and all the rest of the trimmings. We were on hand to see the tree light up in Plaza Civica and lights come on in Centro.</p>
+<figure class="picwide">
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+<p>We tried to see another tree light up in San Antonio the next night, but we got there a bit late. We were in time to see another round of fireworks though, so we stopped and watched those instead. I think lights in the night sky will always trump those on the ground anyway.</p>
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+Mary of the Wild Moor
+=====================
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2018/12/mary-wild-moor>
+ Friday, 14 December 2018
+
+On December 9th, 1531 Juan Diego was walking up the hill of Tepeyac, just north of Mexico City, when a woman appeared to him and, speaking in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec empire, told him she was the Virgin Mary. She then asked him to have a church built on that site to honor "her native religion".
+
+Diego then went to the archbishop of Mexico City several times with the message, but the archbishop did not believe him. Finally, three days later, after some other trials, a miraculous death bed recovery, and non-native roses blooming at 7500 feet in December, Diego delivered a shroud with an imprint of the Virgin Mary to the archbishop who finally believed him and thus was born the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Marian vision that is the cornerstone of Mexican Catholicism.
+
+This, far more than Christmas, is what Mexicans celebrate in December. In San Miguel the neighborhood of San Antonio is home a blessing of the horses, which involves basically every horse in the nearby countryside coming into San Antonio to be blessed.
+
+I think. The truth is, we lacked the necessary Mexican sense of patience to see this one through. We saw the horses lined up, but even our horse obsessed daughter was ready to go long before any of them were actually blessed.
+
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses.jpg" id="image-1807" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-12_141244_blessing-horses.jpg" id="image-1806" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-12_142511_blessing-horses.jpg" id="image-1808" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses.jpg" id="image-1810" class="picwide" />
+
+I never did figure out what Guadalupe has to do with horses, other than she has to do with everything in some way, but I did do a good bit of research on her, in part because I think 300 years from now she will be the focal point of this religion.
+
+The story above is the purely Catholic version of events. Alas, any other version of these events, including that of Juan Diego in his own words, is lost to time. I mention this not because I do not believe the story as it is, it is, to my mind, as likely as any other. For historical completeness it might be worth noting though that even most Catholic historians doubt the authenticity of story of Diego. Still I'm happy to accept the story in full, it's the name of the goddess that I think is worth quibbling about.
+
+One of the reasons Catholicism was so successful is that no other sect of Christianity is so good at taking what's already in place and tweaking it slightly to fit with Catholic doctrine. And prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the very same hill where Mary appeared to Diego was rather well know for as the home of the goddess Tonantzin, who regularly appeared to travelers. While there is no English translation, I have seen several second hand sources quote Juan de Torquemada -- whose epic tome *Monarquía India* is apparently one of the more complete histories of early Mexico -- as saying that the goddess Tonantzin regularly appeared to the natives on that hill "in the form of a young girl in a white robe."
+
+If you wanted to tweak that existing story to fit Catholic doctrine all you need to do is swap some names and you're away. Next thing you know you're feeling quite justified in tearing down the temple of Tonantzin to build a church for Our Lady of Guadalupe, as she is now known.
+
+Monotheistic religions that want sole claim to the capital T truth have a hard time accepting this, but religions are always changing, always in flux. Gods and goddesses come and go throughout time. Whatever essential mystery is behind them seems to remain. One of the advantages of polytheism is that this truth can be easily accepted.
+
+I point this out not to mock anyone's faith, but because I find the Mexican version of Catholicism fascinating and a bit confusing because, well it isn't what most Americans or Europeans would recognize as Catholicism. Here Catholicism seems to be the thinnest of veneers over a much, much older set of gods, goddesses and religious practices.
+
+But Mexicans are adept at adapting and incorporating, so it all blends and molds together into a cohesive whole that makes sense when you see it, even if you probably couldn't put it in words. Still, everything is changing and I think if you come back in 300 hundred years you'll find worship of Jesus has been replaced with worship of Maria -- and only those of us on the outside would think this odd. Arguably it's already that way.
+
+That's not to say Mexico does not celebrate Navidad. It does, complete with lit up trees and all the rest of the trimmings. We were on hand to see the tree light up in Plaza Civica and lights come on in Centro.
+
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting.jpg" id="image-1801" class="picwide caption" />
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+We tried to see another tree light up in San Antonio the next night, but we got there a bit late. We were in time to see another round of fireworks though, so we stopped and watched those instead. I think lights in the night sky will always trump those on the ground anyway.
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+ <h1 class="p-name entry-title post-title" itemprop="headline">Sparkle City</h1>
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+ <h3 class="h-adr" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"><span class="p-region" itemprop="addressRegion">San Miguel de Allende</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/mexico/" title="travel writing from Mexico"><span itemprop="addressCountry">Mexico</span></a></h3>
+ &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="" onclick="showMap(20.911751857012387, -100.75174575367082, { type:'point', lat:'20.911751857012387', lon:'-100.75174575367082'}); return false;" title="see a map">Map</a>
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+ <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-12-28T17:43:45" itemprop="datePublished">December <span>28, 2018</span></time>
+ <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span>
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+ <p>Children know no moderation. At least ours don&#8217;t. The minute they discover something new they love, they must have it ALL THE TIME. </p>
+<p>Pretty much nothing in Mexico happens without fireworks. Luckily actual fireworks are hard to come by, at least here. Sparklers though, they&#8217;re everywhere. I picked some up for Christmas Eve, which kicked off an episode of <em>this is the greatest thing ever</em>, which of course means we must have sparklers ALL THE TIME. </p>
+<p>And for a while we did, pretty much every night through the new year. If you look closely you&#8217;ll notice that these are not your average American sparklers, some of them are about three feet long. Mexico is serious about its fireworks.</p>
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+<p>Mexico is more serious about fireworks than it is about Christmas. It seems to be a much less significant a day than Three Kings day, which comes later, in January and is when most families exchange presents. Most expats go home for the holidays it seems, but fortunately some of our friends stayed and we got together for a little cookie baking party.</p>
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+<p>Christmas stockings are unheard of down here. What&#8217;s Christmas without stockings? Maybe this is why Three Kings day is a bigger deal. Corrinne came up with a substitute to get us through &#8212; some nice ceramic pots. When in Rome, adapt.</p>
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+ <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3>
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+ <li class="grouper">Birds<ul>
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+ <li>American Coot </li>
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+ <li>Bewick&#x27;s Wren </li>
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+ <li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher </li>
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+ <li>Broad-billed Hummingbird </li>
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+ <li>Cassin&#x27;s Kingbird </li>
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+ <li>Cattle Egret </li>
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+ <li>Crested Caracara </li>
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+ <li>House Sparrow </li>
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+ <li>House Wren </li>
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+ <li>Inca Dove </li>
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+ <li>Northern Shoveler </li>
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+ <li>Ring-necked Duck </li>
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+ <li>Ruddy Duck </li>
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+ <li>Vermilion Flycatcher </li>
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+ <li>Violet-crowned Hummingbird </li>
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+ <li>White-faced Ibis </li>
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+ <li>White-tailed Kite </li>
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+ <li>White-winged Dove </li>
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+ <span class="who"><b>DREW ELDRIDGE</b></span>
+ <span class="when">January 23, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.</span>
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+ <p>Im a sucker for long exposure- the picture of Corrinne is a framer- and the one with the fire hands like the old mortal kombat game is my other fave.</p>
+<p>LQuesiton. At what point are you an ExPat? I assume Linda and John are considered X-Pats. But are you? When is it just a nice long vacation and when do you cross that grey line into?</p>
+<p>Like, do you walk around town and see other English speakers and Identify as Expats vs. tourists?</p>
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+<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly what the dividing line between expat and tourist is, once upon a time I&#8217;d have probably said hotel vs house, but Airbnb ruined that. Now, I don&#8217;t know. </p>
+<p>I guess I would say expats are people with no fixed plans to return to wherever their home used to be? But I don&#8217;t know, technically we don&#8217;t have any fixed plans and yet I wouldn&#8217;t probably call us expats. Not because I&#8217;m avoiding the term, but because we do intend to leave eventually. More on that in the next (long) post.</p>
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+Sparkle City
+============
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2018/12/sparkle-city>
+ Friday, 28 December 2018
+
+Children know no moderation. At least ours don't. The minute they discover something new they love, they must have it ALL THE TIME.
+
+Pretty much nothing in Mexico happens without fireworks. Luckily actual fireworks are hard to come by, at least here. Sparklers though, they're everywhere. I picked some up for Christmas Eve, which kicked off an episode of *this is the greatest thing ever*, which of course means we must have sparklers ALL THE TIME.
+
+And for a while we did, pretty much every night through the new year. If you look closely you'll notice that these are not your average American sparklers, some of them are about three feet long. Mexico is serious about its fireworks.
+
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-24_195516_christmas.jpg" id="image-1834" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-24_195144_christmas.jpg" id="image-1835" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-31_200238-1_new-years-eve.jpg" id="image-1826" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-31_200407_new-years-eve.jpg" id="image-1824" class="picwide" />
+
+Mexico is more serious about fireworks than it is about Christmas. It seems to be a much less significant a day than Three Kings day, which comes later, in January and is when most families exchange presents. Most expats go home for the holidays it seems, but fortunately some of our friends stayed and we got together for a little cookie baking party.
+
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+<img src="images/2019/2018-12-23_155028_christmas.jpg" id="image-1839" class="picwide" />
+
+Christmas stockings are unheard of down here. What's Christmas without stockings? Maybe this is why Three Kings day is a bigger deal. Corrinne came up with a substitute to get us through -- some nice ceramic pots. When in Rome, adapt.
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