Ensenada Sunshine

So this Sunday Risa and I took the "micro" to Ensenada to do some grocery shopping. Beans and tortillas in every shape and form are starting to get a little old, and we are feeling a lack of variety in our diet. But don't get me wrong. I still love mexican food. So this bus ride was not nearly as sketchy, maybe the guy knew what he was doing, or else we are just getting more used to the way things roll down here. So we just spent the day at the beach after doing a little shoppin.
Right now I'm in shock and don't know what exactly to do with myself becuase the internet here is faster than I can handle.
Day by day Risa and I are feeling more like mothers. The other day we gave Oscar (13) a driving lesson. He was pretty good:) I gotta admitt he didn't scare me as much as risa does when she drives....especially the huge 15 passenger van.... HAha so I think we had the all time record of twenty people packed into our little aerostar van! That was some good times. And Dani and Andres actually fixed the sliding door of our van. "very nice". Risa also got attacked by the kids when she was taking a peaceful shower lol....Maria and Selene were pounding on the door, and just opened the door, becuase the door lock doesn't really work any more.. they were going crazy in the bathroom, and i had to come a rescue marisa, and convince selene who was laughing hysterically that she couldn't take a poo right then....

Thursday Risa and I got left with all the kids while Angela and Danni went to take their brother to the doctors. Well i guess we weren't all by ourselves since we had Maria, our senile house helper lady. The kids were fine. The boys made an extremely sketchy bike ramp out of a couple of pieces of plywood and mud, and were jumping off it on their bikes.... Viki was getting a little board of the girls and dolls so we made a pimp my ride mexican sytle video with viki dressed up as a cholo! prettty much one of the funniest things ever. I was dying lauging. Her personality and her smile with a missing/crooked front tooth was perfect. We have some great footage we've captured:)
Our house lady Maria is leaving to go back home in a couple of days and Risa and I are going to miss her extremely. sad day. She is amazing always giving us treats and stocking us up on food. Plus she has raging style. Her 80's nylon jacket, and her socks tucked into her pants - she got bit by a huge pinacate (beetle thing) the other day, and freaked out so now she has been wearing pants tucked into her socks. Marisa has been patiently trying to teach her to knit, and most of the time it juts ends in raging fits of laughter, becuase she can never remember what she's doing! She's a cutie. Losing here "hair oil" and pots all the time. And when she got frustrated knitting (oh with pencils by the way. that's all we have) she asked why she couldn't just use her "ganchos" (hanger..) so i ran into the room where she had left her unfinshed knitted hanger, and brought it out to here thinking she had forgotten where it was/it was easy to do than actually knitting. when i came out of the room, she burst out in laughter, because i guess she was asking for knitting needles, which are also called ganchos. lol good times .
For a craft with some of the girls we had them knit yarn around hangers to decorate them, but after awhile all the boys were extremely intrested and all begged to make them to. Last night I walked out of my room, and most all of the boys were sitting on the couches peacefully knitting! It was a spectacular site.
Last night Risa, Andres, Viki, and I were outside with the guitar, watching the stars/the kids skating, and we decided to hike up the hill to get a better view of the stars. It was beautiful, warm, and the stars were super bright. Viki the whole time was begging to go back home, and was scarred the cayotes would come out, and got extremely angry when we started howling like cayotes. The only thing I was sketched out about was that i was wearing flip flops and tramping through the brush...but i survived and it was definately worth the trek.

After dropping the kids off at Kinder one day risa and I took Frijolito and Jaunito to pick up some tortillas at the store, when this American Motorist guy approached us and said very slowly and clearly, "Do You Speak English?" Haha were starting to blend in with the locals yaha. We are catching some nice rays and spanglish is definately something that's occuring more and more.

Well that's more than enough for now. We're heading off to Maneadero to go to a street market to pick up some fruit.