Mom, Ines, and Ken-ichi
Class clowns Blanca and Daniel
Kenny behind the exhaust pipe over the BBQ grill on our table.
Korean food is so tasty!
Potluck where everyone brought desserts and booze. Oh No!
But Kenny saved the day with an impromptu guacamole.
Two for the price of One.
One last Korean meal.
The Spanish word for Peacock is Pavo Real. (We know pavo means turkey from ordering sandwiches.)
Valle de Bravo, a few hours drive west of Mexico City, is where Monarch butterflies congregate in the winter before migrating back to Canada. They settle on the same set of trees year after year, so the local Christmas tree farmers have made a nice tourism business out of it. We rode horses for a couple of hours to the top of the mountain ridge until...
Home Tree. It was an interesting mixture of flapping sounds and silence.
New Style!
This clump just fell out of the tree -they were surprisingly clumsy.
Kenny had a special connection with these mariposas.
Down the mountain and into the sunset. 
Mexico won't soon forget the presence of Hillary "Hilaria" Becton. She arrived at the beginning of February and canon-balled into my Level 2 Spanish class. On weekends or when we decided to skip school, Hilaria, Kenny, and I went on various excursions in the region. We'll share some highlights from our month together in the following posts. Hilaria, who is also my mother, flies back to her island in Maine tomorrow. Safe travels and come back soon!
