A nice cool day

Well today is our last full day here. We will leave tomorrow afternoon and head back to Texas. Don't have a true itinerary yet- just know when we are leaving.

Today was another nice and overcast day. Man it waits until our last week to do this! I am feeling more human today so I was able to walk to school- took me awhile but we did it. Classes were fine- had our last test in history and then that was it. We didn't meet for the 2nd hour at all. So we went full-time in the first class- 2 hours with no break... and then the 2nd class was just the test and that was it. I think we are all pretty much fried. Our business teacher sent everyone the final so they could do it tonight. I think that was a really good idea because it was really hard for a lot of them.

I came home and took a nap. I still didn't really feel like eating anything much so I just took it easy. We picked up the boys a little early since it was a nice day and we decided to go back to Santa Lucia (riverwalk) and play on the playground. Since the sun wasn't out we felt it wouldn't scorch the skin off the kids and the playground toys wouldn't be too hot. Took a taxi and walked down to the playground. I took it easy but it was a nice walk. The kids played for a good while and it was a really nice day. There were a lot of other people there and Jared played with a couple of boys who looked to be close to his age. He went on a see-saw for the first time. Drew had a blast of course. We walked back down the riverwalk to a restaurant that is right on the water and we had dinner. Nothing crazy for me but it was good. Kids ate really well too and Eric chowed down.

Took a taxi back and then Eric and Jared went to play catch. Drew and I played here. Boys are in bed already. I guess it's time for me to go and start packing my junk up. Shouldn't take too long anyway! This time tomorrow we should be in Texas somewhere!!!

Santa Lucia

Well today we had our classes and everything went well. Our history prof. told us about a place 30 miles or so from here that has good food and good shopping. HELLO! I want to go! We only had our business class for an hour today because the prof. had a previous commitment. We will make up the class in small increments so we don't have a 3 hour class.

I had tortas again for lunch. I brought them to the place we went yesterday and boy did they enjoy them! Good, cheap food. Tonight I mentioned to Eric that Dad would have made a pig out of himself in that place because he would have had to try a lot of them and then he would have ordered waaaay too much... Eric wasn't really hungry so he didn't eat with us. I came back and had a nap and then we picked up the kids. Brains are just full of class and Spanish and just the regular life here.

I started working on my homework for my grad class and the boys were bouncing off the walls. They had a great day at daycare and Jared ate his lunch! They were so happy they gave him a huge bag of candy. HMM. :) He really enjoys it there and so does Drew. It's about $539 a month for both of them- including 2 meals so that is a great deal. Anyway we decided to go exploring so we got a taxi and headed to downtown Monterrey. We didn't see a lot of the city, we went to the "riverwalk" of Santa Lucia. Those are the pictures I put on for today. It was really pretty- I liked it much better than San Antonio's Riverwalk actually. We did the boat ride. Before getting on the boat Drew kept acting like he was going to jump in the water. Yeah. No fear with that kid I swear. There are parks, flowers, fountains and art all along the way. It was beautiful and relaxing. Kids enjoyed the first part but on the way back they got a little antsy. We came home and saw some cool parts of the city along the way. Kids are now in bed and I am going to start working on my homework real soon... UGH I have a big assignment due tomorrow for the grad class and I am about halfway done. Oh well!