Aventuras Nuevas- June 25-26

Oye! So much happens everyday it's so hard to stay caught up and to try to write all the things I want to! Yesterday was a pretty relaxing afternoon. Michelle and I spent time some time with the kids in the afternoon. Gerardo is so stinkin cute! Yesterday he decided he wanted to show us all his things of hair gel. We hear this little knock on our door and I open it up and it's his cute little big brown-eyed self with 3 jars of hair gel. He just comes in and asks us "Quieres ver mi gel (pronounced hell)." How could you turn down an opportunity to see this little boys hell! Ha ha He preceded to ask us to smell all of them and told us that his mom uses it to make him guapo ha ha. He teaches us all sorts of great vocabulary! He left for a little bit and then came back with his hair all slicked back so we could see how handsome he was. Then he started telling us about his girlfriend ha ha and how pretty she is. Cuteness!

I think the family is starting to figure out our boundaries, or lack of boundaries I should say. The kids like to come in and play in our room and talk to us and Michelle and I LOVE it but I think the parents and Miriam have not really known how much space we want or something, but I think they are started to get to know us and seeing that we just adore the family.

Last night we went to a stake dance! That was pretty exciting. It was a semiformal dance and we met our group and the Single Adults in our ward at the chapel we go to church at and then carpooled to the church where the dance was being held. Let me tell ya, Mexicans are partiers! And late partiers at that! It was funny how the dance was similar to the ones in the states and how it was way different also. It's the same in that everyone is super awkward at the beginning and dancing in weird circle things. Also they play a TON of techno…oye! But it was way different in all the different types of dancing there was…there was like hip hop music, salsa, banda, and like swing. It was fun, and a little nerve wrecking to dance with the natives ha. But they were kind and good teachers…well some of them were. One thing that is way different is that in the states if you get asked to dance you dance for one song and then you're done. Well here, you get asked to dance and it's until you tell them you don't want to dance anymore ha.

I danced with a few different people. Martín, Fernando, some other guy, and Brad from my group. I learned how to do all sorts of spins and steps and dips. It was fun! It went really late though! The dance was supposed to end at 1 but we didn't get home until like 2:30 and didn't get to bed til about 3:30. That wasn't super smart since we had to be at the university this morning at 7:45! Needless to say I am going to bed VERY soon!

What was SO SO awesome last night was that I met one of Corey's converts!!! A girl name Flor, she came up to me at the end of the night and asked me if my name is Cheyenne. I thought I must have met her earlier and just forgot but then she preceded to tell me that she new my novio and that he had served in that building in her stake and converted her family! Apparently she recognized me from Core's facebook and finally realized where she recognized me from. She is now preparing to go on a mission! She leaves August 11th for Monterey Mexico!! It made me just SO SO ecstatic! She told me that Corey worked a lot with her dad when he was here. I asked her about her dad and she told me that he passed away a couple of years ago but that they had always remembered Elder Carroll. She asked me about our marriage plans and it was just so cool to see the fruits of Corey's service. What are the odds!? It made my whole trip!!

Today we went to visit some other cities and it was so so cool. First we went to Sayula. This city was seriously one of the coolest places I have ever seen in my life! It just was so gorgeous and it was really quite clean and it just had the coolest architecture and sights. The mountains are there and there is farming and it just was cool! We went to a world famous knife factory there where they make SWEET knives and silverware and stuff out of steel. It's a family business that has been going for 10 generations! It was absolutely amazing the craftsmanship they achieve and uniformity with their hands! It was unbelievable! The owner guy (the generation) he was this cute old man and he gave us a tour of the whole process and took us all through the factory. Not to worry! I took pictures of EVERYTHING. The make like kitchen, pocket, fishing, machete, big, little, medium- all sorts of knives! The handles are made out of the antlers of different animals which is freaking sweet! Or also ivory. A lot of them had sweet engravings on them too. After we went there we went to this amazing cathedral near by and then to a place where they sell caramel. We thought where we were going was where they make the caramel but it turned out that where we went was a family's home where they are vendors of the product. While the woman was trying to show us the caramel and let us try it there was this baby across the little garden in the middle of their home just crying and I asked her if it was her baby girl. She told me it was and I asked her if I could go see her and she told me yes! She was SOO cute! Oh my goodness! I went over to her stroller and she immediately stopped crying when she saw me and starting waving! Lol aww…and I just got to play with her with Michelle for a few minutes. It made my day!

After our fun in Sayula we got back on the bus and went to Tapalpa. The scenery was AWESOME on our way to Tapalpa but it was up these hills and turns and a lot of us got car sick and really weren't feeling so hot. We finally got there and I think we just kinda went there to eat at this restaurant there. The restaurant had kind of a western feel and it was kinda weird but cool because it was literally in the middle of the like cow farms but it was a pretty nice place. We had different kinds of tacos, I had lamb and chips (tostadas) and salsa and rice and beans. While we were there the EAU and GHN game was playing…dang it US we almost had it!! When we were finishing eating a Mariachi band came and they played two songs for us! It was WAY cool! Then they took a picture with us!

It was funny cause after that Michelle and I asked one of the waiters if he would take a picture of us for us and after he took a picture of us he asked us if we would do him a favor. I was confused because I was pretty sure that he said favor (you have to think of all the conversations I recount as being in Spanish) and then he preceded to ask us if he could take a picture with us ha ha. It's weird cause this has happened a few times to Michelle and me. Then he couldn't find a camera so he asked us to wait while his friend went to get a camera ha ha. He then asked me if my novio was here or somewhere else. I told him he is in Utah and he goes oh okay then I'm okay. I guess white girls are hard to come by here ha.

After eating we went to Pueblo which is super close. Like right after we got there and they told us to go do stuff for an hour it started POURING! But we found shelter in the little stores and looked around and stuff for awhile. It was a really cool city with a lot of charm because it is a farming city and it's in the mountains so it has resisted a lot of urbanization while being a very active and industrious town. They are very strict on maintaining the integrity of their heritage and of the origins of the city. It was really quite beautiful.

Finally it stopped raining and we made our way back to the bus…exhausted! Now I'm thinking it is time for bed!! Church tomorrow is at 11 so we can sleep in!! I'm very excited about that!

When I got home today I decided to figure out if I could text Corey with my email so I could talk to him because I haven't talked to him in a week! Ah! And guess what!? It worked! So I got to talk to him a little bit today and I'm SO happy! Technology is pretty incredible! If you don't know how to do it go to Tinkernut.com and look at April 2008 and it's in that month. It has tons of cool tech how-to's on there!

Anyways, time for bed for me! Hasta manana!