Goup Party

Upon leaving Chamula we drove back to San Christobal and had lunch at the Zapatista Restaurant. Several of us ordered "Camarones Mojo de Ajo" ( Shrimp in Garlic Sauce). This is one of our favorite dishes, very rich and and certainly blows a hole in the diet. The dish was unlike any we had ever had else where in Mexico. Shrimp were complete with heads, not peeled and over cooked making it near impossible to extract the shrimp from the shell. Presentation was superb and sauce was quite tasty but not up to Oaxaca standards. We had it smeared all over everything by the time we finished!


On several occasions the group got together in the evening to share wine, snacks and conversation. Once in Palenque, on Dave's birthday the second night in San Christobal and again this night. It was too cold that evening to use the court yard so we invited everyone into our room for the gathering. Claudia had been the organizer of this get together and made sure there was the right wine available. She had also set it up have Babu and Bibi talk on the subject of "The Disappearance of the Maya Civilization". Obviously we had talked to much about the time we had spent at the Texas Meetings trying to learn the Hieroglyphics. Everyone joined in the conversation and it was a nice culmination to our stay in San Christobal.

Below inside our room, right to left, Claudia, Joan, Steve and Dave by the wine bottles.

Again, right to left, Babu's Bald head, Lorna and Sue, in the head scarf. (the accident victim). Later on that evening at Sue's request Bibi reverted to her role as nurse (she had served as school nurse at Kigari Collage in Kenya) and removed most of the stitches in Sue's head wound.


There has been little said about our intrepid traveling companions and so in honor of them we include this group picture taken by Ricardo during our visit to Yaxchilan.
Top row, Steve, Jim and Frank(Babu).
Bottom row, Lorna, Dave, Barbara(Bibi), Joan and Claudia and Darlene.
Sue was recuperating in Palenque when this picture was taken.

The group total was twelve including Ricardo and Axel.