Hot as &^%$

It's been a very warm weekend here in Guadalajara. It's in the 90's and we are all dead tired and slow from the heat. However, despite the lethargy brought on by the heat we were pretty social this weekend. Friday night we went to Dr. Hugo's house. He was my literature instructor as well as Gwyn and Sarita's back in the day. His wife cooked up a storm Friday evening and we had the best flautas, enchiladas and papas con chile dish ever. Really, it was that good. Afterwards, she served up some flan type dish that isn't flan, but tastes like flan, but again isn't flan. Patricia and Hugo said what we ate was, let's say, a close cousin of flan. So we called the dessert "primo" (cousin) and "tio" (uncle) all night.

It's always fun hanging out with La Familia Medrano. We basically joked around a lot, and drank wine, beer and tequila with his family (boy can his 8 year old drink - just kidding) then headed home close to 1AM. Hugo and Patricia's oldest daughter is dating a future bartender / DJ. He mixed us some Tequila completos as well as put on U2 for us (or as he called it old rock - I thought, great old rock for old people). Through the eyes of an 18 year old we were definitely an older, uncool, Madonna, Rickie Martin lovin' crowd (at least this applies to Sarita and I since we were the most vocal). He had a Madonna CD, but frowned and said it was his mother's. Sarita and I told him we loved Madonna and he sort of looked at us in disgust. Daniel and Gwyn followed with vocal protests of disgust. We are used to it, said shut up, begged to get our Madonna on, but there was a veto in the room.

Hugo was kind enough to give Sarita a copy of his dissertation (500 pages). He encouraged her to continue writing and to keep at it. It was really sweet of him to do that. It took him 4 years to complete. UR. Then he gave us signed copies of his book. We were so impressed and grateful.

Our next Medrano outing: They have invited us all out to a swimming club in Chapala.

Pic 1: The fantastic meal
Pic 2: Hugo and Patricia
Pic 3: US indulging
Pic 4: Paola (daughter) Claudio (boyfriend, DJ and bartender), Havala (youngest daughter. So cute).