13-14th December - Chapala, 7,6 km

On Saturday Valentin invited us to a Christmas party with his friends. (About two weeks before Christmas "Posadas" start in Mexico - Christmas parties with friends, families... which means party almost every day - not a problem for a Mexican... :-)). Because it was in the evening, we had some extra time, so we went to town for lunch. Valentino showed us local marketplace, tiny one but nice. We had very good lunch - quite expensive, well, maybe it wasn't too much for that amount of food, for 70 pesos each of us had fried fish with rise, beans, salad, tortillas and salsa); for drink we had fresh juice from carrots and oranges, prepared right in front of us, a full glass costs 12 pesos. Then we were looking for some ingredients because Baška wanted to make yogees (our famous spread made from yoghurt, garlic and cheese) for the party. The rest of the day we spent writing blog and emails. It was raining almost whole afternoon.
The Christmas party was in Valentin's friend house (probably very rich friend, his house was very modern and completely not-Mexican), everybody brought something so there was plenty of food and drinks. In the beginning we were singing a carol. One group was singing outside and the second inside (playing Maria and Joseph looking for a place to stay and give a birth to baby Jesus). For us it was fun to sing carol and not knowing the melody (carols here are something different than in USA) and lyrics(well, we had paper with text but anyway...), but the others were singing so much out of tune that it was absolutely ok. Then was a feast (they liked our yogees) and then they were giving presents to each other but it wasn't just that easy. Before this party they drew papers with names so they knew for which one their present should be. The others had to guess the name of person (there was always some clue given by the giver) who the present is for. This year the theme for presents was something edible and everyone got something sweet or from chocolate, wrapped usually in very sophisticated wrappers. At the end everybody said a wish for everyone for the next year. It was nice celebration with a group of very friendly people (they've known each other since childhood and we could say they were really good friends) and we came home very late, about tree o' clock in the morning.
"Surprisingly" we woke up very late the next morning, so we decided to stay here one more day. We didn't do much, except writing the blog and emails.