Where is the Easter candy?

Not long after we arrived in January I began seeing displays in the store with candy for Valentine's Day.  So, I thought if they have Valentine's candy surely I won't have problems finding candy for  Easter baskets. After all, what is Easter without Robins Eggs and Peeps?  For weeks I have been looking.  I haven't seen one chocolate bunny, one colored egg, or one overflowing basket.  However, what I have heard is this week called Santa Semana or Holy Week.  All the schools are closed for Santa Semana.  I've heard a non-christian say that Friday is about the death of Jesus and Sunday is about His resurrection.  So, although I will miss making a basket for my kids, I have had to stop and think, "Do these people around me, many of whom are entrenched in a religion without a relationship, have a better understanding of Who this day is about?"

Familiar Sights

Saturday afternoon we took off on a new adventure.  We had been told that there was a mall not too far.  Vance looked it up on the map and decided it was close enough to walk, so off we went.  Finally, after a few hills (nothing in Cuernavaca is flat), and a few wrong turns we made it to Plaza Cuernavaca.  It wasn't an inside mall like we think of, but it was still very nice. It was a nice place to walk around for a bit. Here are a few things we found:

 There wasn't a "hot now" sign flashing, but they still looked pretty good.  Didn't get to try any though because they were fairly expensive.

 Couldn't believe there was a Sears! We didn't buy anything, but we did go in and look around.

This is where we choose to eat.  They also had a McDonald's, but the Pizza Hut was cooler.  

Our Meat Lover's pizza with a cheese poppers crust.  We weren't big fans of Pizza Hut in the states, so I don't know if they have this type of crust, but it was yummy! 

After walking around a bit more we found the Icees.  They had cereza(cherry) and manana y uva(apple/grape) flavors.  They kids decided to go with the cherry.  They were all smiles with red lips, teeth and tongues.

                                      

"APPLES TO APPLES"

At the last store we went in we found this game and had to take a picture.  This is a game we have and like to play.

After a few hours at the mall we were all ready to head home. This time we took a taxi!

Learning Some Spanish Now

A couple of our teachers have Spanish games that they have let me use for the kids.  I have been wanting to find some of our own.  On Saturday morning we hit the jackpot!  We went to  a store where one of the teachers said she had gotten some games and this is what we found:

In case you can't tell it is 4 Bingo games or Loteria in Spanish and 5 Memory games or Memorama.  We have body parts, colors, nouns, places, foods. verbs, and animals.  Since we are speaking at a preschool level, we thought preschool level games might help.  Can't wait to learn some Spanish this week!