Turistas, not Terroristas
Chris and I got back this afternoon from Chihuahua City, where we spent the past week interpreting for an eyeglass clinic--more about that later. We took a charter bus from Juarez 4 1/2 hours and arrived late last Friday night, where we were thankfully picked up at the bus station by Pastor Tovar. We were a little worried about the trip seeing as though it involved getting a ride across the Zaragoza bridge, being picked up on the other side and driven to the Juarez bus station by Pastor Hernandez, the bus ride itself, and then being picked up by Pastor Tovar and taken to he and Blanca's house, where we stayed, at 10ish pm on Friday night, but God was watching out for us; everything went swimmingly, and Pastor was the first person we saw when we walked in.
Due to a change in flight times, the group didn't arrive until Saturday night (half of them didn't wind up getting there until SUNDAY night!), so after breakfast of quesadillas de asadero y barbacoa (a little strange to gringos for breakfast but sooooo good...she had already fed us tacos de barbacoa with fresh pico de gallo when we got back to the house Friday night too), we had the whole day to explore. This was super-easy due to the fact that Gloria Dei (the Tovars live in the parsonage right next to the church building) is located only a couple blocks from the "centro" so we could walk everywhere. Here's my (and a couple of Chris's) photodocumentation of our day spent being tourists in Chihuahua City:
Pancho Villa's house...this is literally around the corner from the church.
Me in the courtyard.
'Sup, Pancho???
The car he was assassinated in.
You can get way close and see the bulletholes. Chris was wondering which was the fatal one...interesting thought.
The view across the street.
Neat looking fountains in the middle of the road as we continued our walk toward the cathedral.
The "Parque del Arte"--there was also this really cool outdoor photography gallery thing...not sure if it's part of the park or something completely different.
La Catedral de la Cd. de Chihuahua.
Statue in the plaza in front of the cathedral honoring the founding of the city or something. To bo honest I just took a picture of it because I saw it in a travel book I was looking at in a gift shop someplace.
Pancho Villa's mausoleum, although he isn't actually buried here and I'm not sure he ever was.
My family gets here tomorrow! So not sure when I will get around to posting the clinic pics, but I promise they're for sure on the way. Oh, and we were on the news last night--I was interviewed in Spanish!--because a bunch of camera crews showed up on the last day, so I'm (so far unsuccessfully) working on finding a video of it online to post on here too. Chris and I were the only ones who stayed up to watch it and of course no one in the states had the chance to so let's hope it's there!
Until next time, blessings!
Due to a change in flight times, the group didn't arrive until Saturday night (half of them didn't wind up getting there until SUNDAY night!), so after breakfast of quesadillas de asadero y barbacoa (a little strange to gringos for breakfast but sooooo good...she had already fed us tacos de barbacoa with fresh pico de gallo when we got back to the house Friday night too), we had the whole day to explore. This was super-easy due to the fact that Gloria Dei (the Tovars live in the parsonage right next to the church building) is located only a couple blocks from the "centro" so we could walk everywhere. Here's my (and a couple of Chris's) photodocumentation of our day spent being tourists in Chihuahua City:
Pancho Villa's house...this is literally around the corner from the church.
Me in the courtyard.
'Sup, Pancho???
The car he was assassinated in.
You can get way close and see the bulletholes. Chris was wondering which was the fatal one...interesting thought.
The view across the street.
Neat looking fountains in the middle of the road as we continued our walk toward the cathedral.
The "Parque del Arte"--there was also this really cool outdoor photography gallery thing...not sure if it's part of the park or something completely different.
La Catedral de la Cd. de Chihuahua.
Statue in the plaza in front of the cathedral honoring the founding of the city or something. To bo honest I just took a picture of it because I saw it in a travel book I was looking at in a gift shop someplace.
Pancho Villa's mausoleum, although he isn't actually buried here and I'm not sure he ever was.
My family gets here tomorrow! So not sure when I will get around to posting the clinic pics, but I promise they're for sure on the way. Oh, and we were on the news last night--I was interviewed in Spanish!--because a bunch of camera crews showed up on the last day, so I'm (so far unsuccessfully) working on finding a video of it online to post on here too. Chris and I were the only ones who stayed up to watch it and of course no one in the states had the chance to so let's hope it's there!
Until next time, blessings!
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