Visit to Puebla

Just a 2-hour bus ride away is the gorgeous city of Puebla...filled with Spanish colonial arquitecture, cobblestone streets, and a street dedicated to candy...Calle de los dulces!  We stayed at an amazing hotel, Casa Reyna, (that we never could have afforded otherwise) thanks to my amiga, Ana Laura, who lives in Puebla. To celebrate Christmas, we saw a local community-organized production of A Christmas Carol. It was great- Mexican style with Spanish names...little Timmy was Tomasito...and at the dinner, the nephew's famiy drank "ponche" - traditional fruit cider - out of Mexican clay pottery. They sang and dance to Mexican music.  It was a performance to remember.