Ranch life and tacos

Went to Izamal again a couple of days ago, and I'm here again with Dylan today. It’s a lovely town and the closest city from the ranch – very pretty, and the market is the best! We had a lot of food from the mega grocery store from our trip to Merida just before Christmas, and those supplies have served us well while we had company, as planned. Now that those reserves are gone, we are back to shopping local and I love it. I went to get some ground beef from one of the butchers, got fresh veggies and fruit from the various vendors, fresh bread at the bakery, and the non perishables like pasta and canned tuna in the little grocery store besides the market. This is the way it should be! We got fresh warm corn tortillas in Sudzal on our way back to the ranch, and made a big taco feast – Tio George style. We learned about real tacos in his snack bar in Majahual, and Goerge himself educated us about the making of good tacos. He sowed us not only the dishes, but the raw vegetables too so now I can buy them in the market – they are various local veggies that I never saw before and I can never remember what they are called. This is my next challenge. Interested in knowing how to make real good tacos? Okay… but I will have to break it down into a few postings, it involves many dishes… and more importantly : no cheese.

We also found a wireless café in Izamal – the only one. It makes it so much easier and faster to use our own laptops when emailing documents – awesome.

And that was the good part of the day on Tuesday. Unfortunately on most days the difficult part is schooling. Dylan is pretty independent and easy going on following the program, but Leo has a volatile attitude towards anything that has to do with school. I have a tendency to lose my temper when confronted with lack of effort and wining – so this is a fairly bad combination. The afternoon session was one of the worst argument we’ve had so far… I was ready to put him on a direct flight to Toronto.

We took a break from each other, and we eventually made up. Went for a walk together, following the sheep coming in at the end of the day and Léo carrying one of the little puppies – and for me these few minutes walking down that path was a moment of perfect happiness. Life is very good here. We hung out with Samuel and his 7year old nephew who took Leo in the little barn to pick-up a lamb in his arms – he was so happy. The world was turning the right way again, and we came home to finish the math project he had to do today. We were both soothed by our walk and our visit with the sheep, Leo is very fond of the animals around us. The tension was replaced by a sweet feeling of serenity. All good since.

Going to Isla Holbox tomorrow morning (yepee!), will stay 2 nights and come back on Sunday. Next update on Monday - Cheers!