Thanks to jlsnaddon.com for photo
We got excited this week when John was on the balcony after dark and saw a bat. We thought it was pretty cool, and saw him swooping around the next night, too. By Saturday night, word had spread around the bat world, and we had a huge swarm of them. It was amazing and a lot of fun to watch – turns out they love the hummingbird feeder – um, a little too much. We had wondered why the feeders were empty when we got up Saturday morning – it was the same story Sunday morning. Since we think they’re fun to watch, we thought that we could just cover the feeders at night and put out a pan of sugar water for them instead – until we went out on the balcony for Sunday coffee and found bat poop everywhere! It wasn’t super-bad, but it was enough for us to know that we don’t need to encourage them to come around. It’s a shame they can’t be better behaved guests!
John’s first latte art!
This is John’s first latte art – I’m definitely a lucky woman to wake up to this on a Saturday morning! Well done!
Saturday we drove out to Tlaquepaque for a large arts and crafts fair. We had a lot of fun looking at the different kinds of crafts from different parts of the country. I bought a cookie jar from a guy from Hidalgo with a Katrina motif:
Katrina cookie jar from Hildalgo
Afterward, we walked to Mariscos Progreso on the advice of one of the local staff from work and we’re glad we did. We had the dish they are most famous for: pescado zarandeado (flipped fish). It’s cooked over mesquite wood in a wire basket and flipped back and forth, and it was delish. Here’s the before and after:
Red snapper
pescado zarandeado
As we were walking back to our car, we saw these three dogs on a balcony, watching the comings and goings on the street below.
Balcony dogs