One family in particular provided us with lots of entertainment in our evening people watching activity from our patio. They have 3 children and when we came here the youngest boy was just a toddler. Mom would carry him down the street in the evening when she went to pick up the other children from school. Roy would wave to him and he would shyly bury his head in his moms shoulder. With moms encouragement he got to where he would timidly wave at us as they went by. Time passed and he began walking on his own with mom and Roy would go down and hand him a candy as they went by. He grew and Roy finally persuaded him to come upstairs and get his own candies. His first trip up the stairs to see us, was funny as his little face was a picture of shyness, fear of the height he was at, at the top of the stairs and accomplishment for the brave thing he was doing, confronting virtual strangers. It was funny. He kept growing and was now Roys little buddy, waving frantically as they passed by or when he came to play with the landlords grandson. After awhile the whole family came to accept us and would wave, smile and greet us as they passed by. There was not much conversation between the little boy and Roy because of the language barrier but his little face said a million words. It was fun to watch his confidence in himself grow as he did. We watched him and his siblings playing in the evenings and they provided much entertainment to us. We had discussed whether we should ask the parents whether the little fellow and his two older siblings could come over to visit us to perhaps learn some english or play on the computer; but we didn't rush into doing anything, I guess we are in the mañana mode. Anyway we never did approach them about it.
The other day I happened to look out the window and there was a big truck parked in front of their house and their belongings were being moved into the truck. They were moving! We went over and asked where they were going and were told that the father had gotten a better job in Obregon, the next city south of us. We wished them luck, shook hands and watched them leave.
The house is now empty and awaiting new tenants and we sit outside in the evening missing the contact that we had with them and hoping that life is treating them well in their new home.
Tonight we are heading uptown to meet up with some other people and see what is happening in the Plaza. Tomorrow is Independance Day here and this evening at around 11 PM the Grito will be read and there will be fireworks afterwards. I don't think we will stay that late; but we will see some of the activity anyway. There are a million articles on the internet about Mexican Independance Day, so if you are interested you can do some searching or look here for some information about it.
