Christmas 2012

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Yunuen and I spent Christmas in Nogales this year with family. Good times but quite cold.

We didn’t leave Tucson until roughly 10pm, which was after my three hour nap. Mexican traditional Christmas eve dinners are typically this late. It wasn’t until about midnight until dinner began.

We had some great food.

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This morning we slept in late, which was a nice change. Breakfast was fairly typical – tamales and other tasty things.

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We will return to Tucson shortly to resume our week there. A nap would be nice right about now.

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Vennetos

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We had some fine Italian dining tonight here in Hermosillo at Vennetos. Exceptional service. Very impressive. The appetizers and salads were great. I ordered the filet. The most expensive item on the menu, but not that great.

Overall, I loved the place for the service. The food was pleasant, but we’ve had plenty better.

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Dona Tota Gorditas

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We are running errands this morning, so we stopped to have some tortas for lunch. I have never really been a huge fan and today really didn’t change my feelings. Even so, a fun experience to watch them being made.

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Vamos a Tucson

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Bathroom break at the toll in Magdalena.

We left earlier than usual today around 3:30. The drive home with daylight is much more pleasant. The only disadvantage is the longer line at the border.

We had a nice lunch with Paco and Julia after church. I had 4 tamales. So good.

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El Burro del Gordo

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Lunch today is at El Burro where I am having the legendary burro carne asada. This is a place just down the street from our house in Hermosillo. For 50 pesos each, it should have been better and bigger. I doubt we will come here again. That pepper was hot.

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We have interviews today. We want another person on the weekends and another person through the week.

I took a 4 hour nap today which was much needed. I love the nap.

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We went out for dinner at a place near our house called Steaks del Herradero. The food was pretty incredible. Much better than La Siesta last weekend. The service was pretty good by Mexican standards. I had LA Cetto cab. with dinner. It was enjoyable.

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Late departure

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5:10. Yet another far too late of a departure from Hermosillo. Getting home late makes for a difficult day tomorrow. It would be nice to eventually not have to leave.

It was a nice weekend. We worked late on Saturday at the farmacia. I am installing new point-of-sale software that has been quite the task. Next week will be the experimental stage for that.

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We had an awesome lunch at La Siesta this afternoon with Gabe and Abraham. I had an enormous caesar salad (apparently intended to be a meal in itself) along with a giant slab of meat.

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It was very good and I would return. I love spending time with Yun’s brothers discussing business ideas. I like the idea of possibly living in Guanajuanto, Merida, or Queratero. Hermosillo is nice, but even in the middle of December it is hot. Summers are brutal.

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Opening weekend…

This was a big weekend for us. We left for Hermosillo last Thursday (thanksgiving) and are now driving back to Tucson.

We began moving into our new house Thursday night after a long day of packing up things and traveling. We brought some of the extra furniture we had in our guest house in Tucson along with clothes and other small things. We are going to keep our furnishings in the main house until we sell it.

Yun’s parents lent us their truck. It’s not exactly fuel efficient, but very helpful for moving. Since Jacinto and Ericka were moving ghis weekend as well, we transported some of their things and had them drive it. This way we could ride the Mazda which moves along at a steady 100+ mph nearly the entire way.

It was fun to have our first night in a new house. It is nearly double the size of our current home, so furnishing it will be no small task.

On Friday we opened the farmacia for its grand opening. This was probably a bad choice of days as we had a number of workers over working on the house (electrcians, carpenters, and gas guy). Also, we had to wait for the gas to be delivered as the house has a tank for this as opposed to a city line (which is the norm apparently). This was important so that we would have hot water among other things. 1200 pesos later and we were good to go. Supposedly this will last 9

The farmacia did really well this weekend, much better than expected. There was a lot to do and it doesn’t seem to end.

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Abe’s bday was on Sunday, so we went to Guaymas on Saturday. That turned into an all night party and lots of carne asada.

The weather was great. Scout and Tila had fun in the water. It was nice to have a break for a day.

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We return in four days. It would be great to stay, but that will have to wait a little longer.

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C130 flying overhead at work

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Emissions

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The emissions testing center has a live feed of the wait line. We are the white car in line above. This is our third attempt with this car in the last 30 days. Apparently the thermostat was blocked open, so we replaced it last week.

The emissions guy passed us!

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Shishkabab House

As we were in town this weekend, we were able to spend time with friends that we don’t often get to spend time.

Today we had lunch with Jeff and bath at the Shishkebab House. This is one of our favorite places to eat in Tucson. As always, I went with the beef oozie.

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Tonight Matt and Dana came over for an old Sunday night tradition of carne asada tacos from El Sinoaloense. As always, they were so good.

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