1. Hearing the Bells.
2. Carmen the Sweet: Who comes in 3 times a week to make our beds, tidy up and do laundry...sheer luxury.
3. Pick up trucks with riders in the backs enjoying themselves.
4. A daddy letting his 7 year old son sit on his lap and steer the car down our quiet street.
5. Learning that the city hired clowns to stand in the streets to teach the drivers how to slow down until this became such a safe place for walking.
6. Taxis: Plentiful and no fare computations...everywhere in the city is the same price, 25 pesos ($2.17).
7. Throwing open our 8 foot tall french doors in the morning to let the breeze in. Then at 11 am standing barefoot on the tile floor closing them up and pulling heavy drapes over them feeling like a Cuban Senora in the 40s.
8. Being called Senora.
9. Jose: Who waters all our plants, and washes down the roof sitting area and the patios so they are always ready for enjoying.
10. Hecho a mano, Senora! Beautiful tiny, tiny bead work being done by men with laborers large hands and ladies passing the time in the sidewalks and shops crocheting and knitting the softest infant garments.
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