Yesterday was a quiet day around the Casa, we lounged around the pool waiting for our 7:30 pm dinner engagement with Bob & Denise at 130Degree Steakhouse. As I said the other day, it has the reputation as being one of the better restaurants in Merida. This is just a little different type of steakhouse, they have a charge by the "ounce" for their steaks, depending on the cut, the price per ounce varies with the cut of meat. We had heard that the size of the st...

Big glitzy resorts like you find in Cancun are pretty nice I must say, you get to dress up, and strut your finest by the pool making sure that everyone sees that new Rolex or gold chain that you bartered for at the local market. But there is something to say about 15' walls and your own private pool. Privacy these days is sometimes hard to come by and it's been really nice to have this place all to ourselves. Here we are at this point in our lives, sunny everyday...

We woke to the sounds of bells that were coming from the local church just behind the Casa. It looked to be another fantastic day in the Yucatan - 32F degrees, sunny and hot but with the great breeze that always seems to be around. We've been told by some of the locals that we just had to go to one of the main north/south streets in Merida known as Paseo Montejo. Sunday is a family day here, they close the northern section of the 6-lane street and families turn ...

We've been in Merida for three days now and there's been lots of action. We've settled into Casa Musa and it's become like home. The real unfortunate thing that happened was on Thursday, Terry was swimming in our pool and tried to get out for some sun, but in stepping off the surrounding ledge onto the Mexican tiles he came down hard, real *********** the tile floor. He was in real pain for a while but seemed to recover ok and as a matter course we went off to di...

We arrived OK in Merida so I thought I'd post some pictures from our first day in Merida. It's hot, boy it's hot. But overall the pictures were very typical of what we've found at the Casa. More to follow.