Happy (belated) New Year

Granma & Lucie

or...as happy as we can be on this day? yeechhh...

Anyway here's the picture to form a set with the others, a little dark and grainy since I took it with my phone which is only adequate.

Our trip back to Mexico was informative, a little scary to see the jeeps with armed outriders or up riders? they stand up in the back with guns ready...and it took us 2 hours to get across the bridge coming back - nothing compared to the 13 hours for Arturo and family (day after New Year's) and Antonia's children with their families who were diverted through the mountains because roads were blocked with gas-price protesters - it went up the equivalent of more than 40 cents overnight! What would we have done in the US? Said, oh, well, got to pay that to keep the SUV running....

cynically yours,
Agelaius

Oh, but I should tell you the wedding was lovely, with a very exciting horseback parade through the town and then we saw LOTS of family at the dinner/dance and then throughout the week. And nobody got sick except me!