next stop San Juan de los Lagos

how do you say blog in spanish

Now that I have finished travelling and have started Spanish school, I can get update my blog without worrying about blowing peoples web access.
Here you see Mayumi Ono, Fr. Jose Alfredo and Maiha Ono. I think most of you have met Maiha, Mayumi is her mother (very young looking, everyone we meet here think they are sisters) and Jose who came back to Mexico from Japan about 3 years ago. He will be returning to Japan next year. He was our hard working guide.

Mariachi in Tlaquepaque

old guadalajara

blog business

Congratulations Emma on guessing the number of beads 349. I am not sure what you have won yet, maybe Eve will make something from the beads for you. Competition number 2, the Wii game. Ryan was closest and wins a trip to the US. We were riding elephants, not being chased by them, and we had to shake the reins up and down to make them go faster.
The music was removed from Emma's Aussie highlights because it violated copyright laws. blogger sent me an email telling me that. I think you can only use up to a minute of music or something before it gets taken off. And Susan the sound for hotel room is working okay, so it might be your computer.
Yes Connnie I did make the "thank you" card all by myself. (on the computer) LEO

guadalajara cathedral

The center of Guadalajara is stunning.
The old colonial town has been beautifully preserved and goes for block after block. In the center of course is the cathedral surrounded by plazas. Nearly all the buildings are made from a local gray stone, which gives a pleasant consistent look to everything.

in guadalajara at last

we finally arrived in Guadalajara 2 days late. Still we had a good time on the way. Maiha and her mother Mayumi, whom alot of you know came from Toshima. 2 others had to pull out of the trip. Our host is Fr. Jose Alfredo.

on the road

The flight was rescheduled 30 hours later and still left Narita an hour late. Which left us only 45 minutes to get our connection to Guadalajara. After the ground staff said that it would be okay, we got to the next gate 12 minutes late and the plane was gone. We our now booked to fly out of Mexico city tomorrow morning at 7am. Andd so another hotel room. Leo

almost there

Journey Interrupted

I am sitting in a Narita Hotel room. Our flight yesterday was cancelled and we will be leaving tonight 30 hours after the scheduled time. Not bad, Aeromexico!
The room, all meals and use of facilities here are all free. And it hasn't been all that bad. I could do with some down time, where i cant do anything much.
Last night we went to the see Harry Potter #6. I think the worse of the series so far. The director obviously wanted to highlight the acting, against a washed out blue background. I would have preferred far less acting and alot more CG and bright colours. Very disjointed and quite a feat to make so many great actors appear boring.
Today was exercise, walk to the mall, buy some clothes (our bags were not returned), swim and sauna.
Will introduce you to everyone next time. Leo

Back blogging

Sorry I have been AFK (away from keyboard) for so long.
I got back to Tokyo and felt snowed under with work.
I will have to organise my life better sothat I dont feel exhausted at the end of the day.
Of course one reason that I was so busy was that I had to get things sorted out for my trip to Mexico!
Now that I am on the way, I am back Blogging.

THANK YOU GRACIAS ARIGATOU