The Wedding and Guadalajara

THE WEDDING

On Friday, Jan 20^th we headed for San Blas by bus and arrived at Casa Roxanna in the afternoon.

Kent and Luis own Casa Roxanna and are high school friends of Kathy and Mike and have become good friends of Tom and Claudette.

Transporting Decorations

We walked to San Blas' central plaza for the "rehersal dinner".

Rehersal dinner at Tacos de Paradillo
right on the sidewalk across from the plaza

Saturday morning we helped Kathy and Luis decorate.
They did a great job coordinating everything.

The ceremony took place at 1:00 up by the pool.

The Groom and the Officiant.

This local band played the music for the ceremony and the party after.

Ines and Maria prepared all the food
for the fabulous shrimp lunch.

The newlyweds.

The girls: Kathy, Claudette, & Chrissy

The guys: Kent, Tom, Mike, Jim & Luis

GUADALAJARA

The morning after the wedding Jim and I hopped on a bus for Guadalajara. The rest of the wedding crew joined us a couple of days later. It was great to have Kent and Luis' recommendations because they've been there many times.

We stayed at the Hotel San Francisco Plaza.

Lobby and Courtyard

Guadalajara is a beautiful city..................

This band was playing off of the central plaza.

All homemade instruments with buckets, plastic pipes

and plastic glasses.

With public art everywhere..................

We went out to Tlaquepaque and Tonala

which are just outside of Guadalajara. Everyone had

a great time shopping and we had a great lunch with a female mariachi band playing

It was a great couple of weeks.

We are now back in La Cruz and will be heading south tonight or tomorrow.

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