Elbows out, side to side

It's finally Friday and tonight me and the other lady on my audit and I are off to Veracruz!! We're staying at the Galeria Plaza Hotel which we picked mainly because it's attached to the mall. But it also looks nice and is supposed to have a great outdoor pool where I hope to be spending most of my time. Currently the weather forecast shows high winds so keep your fingers crossed that the indoor pool is below a glass roof on the top floor.

I finally figured out why they only make Spring Break a week long. If you stay in Mexico more then a week, you get sick of the food. I did try octopus this week and fresh guava. And I drank some sort of white powdery milky substance at lunch that smelled a lot like Christmas but didn't taste as good. They put some sort of sauce on everything and I think that's what has made me get sick of it. I've decided to stick to the basics of soups and salads for the remainder of the trip. I figure, 10 days of authentic Mexican was enough to satisfy any craving. I might actually be set for the year.

The other staff auditor on this audit is Brazilian and while his English is fantastic, we sometimes stumble across words that he doesn't know. For instance, the other day I said "Are you mocking me?" and he didn't know the word "mocking". So, I explained it and now I can say he's not leaving this audit empty handed. Another word I taught him is "baller". This one might not have be as useful but it's quite amusing when he points to random guys on the street and says "That guy is such a baller" in his sweet Brazilian accent. He tried to help me learn Portugese for my next audit but it's a very difficult language. I could barely get out the sentence "Where is the bathroom" so he said they'd probably know what I was talking about if I just asked in Spanish and that IS one of the things I know how to say in Spanish!

There is some construction going on between where we work and our hotel. At one point, the road splits and one side goes downhill and the other side (which is 2 lanes) goes up hill. Right before the road splits, there is a sign that says "Good traffic" which points to the side that goes up hill and another that says "Bad traffic" and points to the side that goes down. This in itself, I find amusing. But on top of all that, 95% of the time, we choose the "bad traffic" side!! We also pass a giant blowup Godzilla that we haven't figured out what it's there for. And you also see signs for bull fighting and cock fighting (which is apparently legal here).

The other night we went to dinner with some of the people from our sight. We went to an Argentinian restaurant which was quite delicious. And the people were so funny! They told some great stories about some of the spring break places and kept doing impersonations of people from other Latin American countries. It's meeting all these new people in addition to all the traveling that I love this job!

When I told the people here that I spent the best week of my life in Acapulco, the started recommending all these other places to go. They pushed Cancun really hard which I thought was wierd since there are so many other nice places in Mexico. I was sad to bring up the point that I don't have Spring Break anymore! Its one of the sad facts about getting older.

One of the people on this site bears a very strong resemblance to Mr. Bean. It's keepiing up with the fact that I'm constantly finding movie star look-alikes on all my trips.

I hope you all have a great weekend!