Karlie writes: Our NYE, mellow and pretty uneventful though it kept us up until 4:00 which is SO unheard of for us these days but I guess NYE is the day, if any. We ate a lovely Italian dinner with a couple from Seattle who had been staying in one of Brian's apt. for the month of Dec. and then walked to a restaurant on Playa Zicatela where we waited a good 15 minutes for 1 round of drinks so that when 12:00 rolled around we toasted with imaginary drinks in hand. My favorite part of the conversation that night was when Suzanne(see Seattle couple)said that I saved the entire state of TX by my sparkling personality! I think this is really funny because Suzanne is originally from Germany and had had only 1 extended encounter with a Texan which ended in being pulled over by the cops. She said that since she had not been acquainted with any other Texans she was left to judge an entire state by the unruly crazy guy who got pulled over and none other than everybody's fave ol' Dubya so at least now she doesn't think that the rest of you are equally idiotic. After drinks at 12:15 Leo and Suzanna were ready to go home and we had an invite to go to a party where all the cool kids would be only obviously we're really not all that cool because we couldn't find the party. So we opted NOT to go to a "rave" that the local Italians threw at the local all night club and instead encountered a DJ playing some decent music at an overpriced bar and took our own cheap beers onto the beach outside of the bar where we could enjoy the music for free. Then all of a sudden it was 3:30 and that was that. We're still working a lot sometimes and I've been teaching quite a few private yoga classes and my group classes which most of you already heard about(www.temazcalli.com)start in a week. Things look to be very busy this month. We already have 20 students committed to study, not including who ever else will pop up at any given time. And besides learning about our job we've been learning to deal with all of the details of TRULY living in Mexico(like negotiating loans with neighbors, battling insects and rodents,inconsistencies, and battling a constant influx of dust). We kind of have to start getting used to critters and pests. Today Mike took a student to a nearby archaeological site and came back with a tick-yuck! He said "It's like the wild west around here!" Gotta love it.
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