Cuernavaca--"La Ciudad de Eterna Primavera"

We are renting this home for a week with Mar and Kelly. It's costing each family about $50 per night. It's on a green hillside within a gated community. The homes up here are incredible, as is this home. It has 4 large bedrooms. The hallways are actually balconies that are opened up to the outside. The view is just absolutely breathtaking. Right below us is a golf course and palm trees all around. It feels like paradise. We are feeling awfully spoiled this week! You can see Whitney by the pool.

There's Abuelito....reading?......sleeping? Does it matter? We're on vacation!

I love the pillars!

Tessy and Maho. These tables are right outside the kitchen. We sit here for every meal and admire the view. Or watch the rain.

The front of the door; the outside looking in. I love this big chunky door. All the doors, armoires, furniture and cupboards are the same big, chunky, rustic dark wood. I love it!

I like this plant at the top of the stairs leading down to the house. I thought Mom would appreciate this pic. She probably would've appreciated it more with a nina in it.....

Up above the house, where the parking is.

The stairs going down to the house.

Tessy caught this butterfly.

These are the green hills where the home is that we are staying. It's so green here, it's junle-like!

Molly and Pilar. This is the cute lady that works here at this house. She is the property manager, the gardner, the maid, and yes, the CHEF! The price of this place includes a Chef! All we do is buy the food, or pay her for what she buys, and she cooks all the meals, serves them, then cleans it all up! We took her grocery shopping our first day here. She wouldn't even let me push the cart. And she won't call me Molly. She always says, "Si, Senora." I'm learning some recipes from her. I asked if she'd teach me how to make tamales and atole (a thick, hot chocolate Mexican drink, often drunk with tamales). So we are doing that tomorrow.

The first night she made us Cecina (thin steak, seasoned really yummy) black beans, nopales salad (made from cactus, tomatoe, onion cilanto and chiles), and fresh lime-aid from the limes in the yard. YUM!

This morning she made yummy eggs with chile peppers, potatoes and onions sauteed and then mixed in with the eggs. We ate that with tortillas, salsa and beans.

For lunch today she made sopa y sopes. That's soup and sopes (small, thick corn tortillas with beans, chicken, potatoes, salsa and sour cream on top).

Tonight we gave her the night off and I'm making churros and hot chocolate. I've never made churros, but wanted to give it a try! And it's perfect churro and hot chocolate weather. It's POURING down rain right now, which it does often. Usually it's very light misty rain. But right now we are getting cats-and-dogs-big-fat-rain along with thunder and lightening!