Sept 15th. Time to Relax

Today Trev and I went to the Hotel Villa Bordeaux to spend the day at the thermal pools.
here is a link http://hotelspacosala.com/portal2/ . It was great. it cost $220 pesos, so just under $22 for the whole day. you can take in your own food and drink but there is a great restaurant there also. They have a jacuzzie and infinity pool both filled with thermal water heated from volcanic magma. although they do cool the pool it is still pretty warm. They also have a great steam room, and tons of loungers and seating to laze around all day. All this is in the adult only section for ages 18 and up. But there is another section just thru some gates that you also have access to for this price and this is for all ages. It has waterslides, a big pool, lazy river and maybe more but for today we stayed in the spa area.
It was sooooooo nice. we just moved form the jacuzzi to the pool and back, then sat around and had a drink and some lunch. After lunch I went in the steam room and then back to the pool while Trev had a long nap in the patio chair under the umbrella. It was really nice just floating in the pool looking out over the lake to the mountains on the other side and thinking to myself..we actually live here. we are VERY lucky!!
The spa also offers other services like massage, pedi and manicures and so on for an additional cost.

After leaving the spa we had to make a trip to walmart to pick up a few things. The walmart here is not anything like walmarts in canada or the u.s. which we avoided like the plague. They are alot smaller (more like a large zellers and sell mostly things made in Mexico only.
Once we got home it was time for a another nap while dinner was cooking.

It is a good thing we had all that rest during the day because tonight at 11:00 in the square is the beginning of the Independence day celebration. The square is filled with food and drink stands and  and stands selling Mexican flags, clappers and confettie eggs and it was packed with adults and kids of all ages everywhere. There is music and at 11:00 they do a re-enactment of the speech given 201 years ago when Mexico gained its independence from Spain.
On the stage they sing the national anthem and repeat the speech and everyone in the crowd chants "VIVA" about 10 times and them lots of cheers and fireworks. And I mean fireworks right there on the stage.....not on a barge or 500 yards away from the crowd. They go off right above us and you have to watch for falling ambers because they are coming down everywhere. Also on the gazebo in the center of the square that is covered with kids some fireworks go off there also. Here they are not so much into regulations and stuff like that but it goes off without a hitch, no one gets hurt and everyone has a great time.

Then home to bed. Tomorrow there is a small perade at 10:00.......me thinks we will not make it!