Steve Our Tour Guide

During the long hot wait for the Pocho Ceremony to begin we took advantage of the air conditioning at the Restaurant Under the Mango Tree.
Here is Steve, our Tour Guide, enjoying (?) his lunch.

As the Restaurant did not serve beer Axel, our Driver, brought in a supply from a local bar. The cold beer was as welcome as the food. Thanks to Axel this became a tradition as the trip progressed.

As the celebration preliminaries begin Steve borrowed a mask from a street vendor



to blend with the crowd but all the photography equipment was a dead give away!! :)


It is worth noting that we met the lady from Melba (our home town) at this event. We had met her before in the hotel in Villahermosa. Unusual, to say the least, to see a neighbor this far from home.