Mexico City College Trip 2005 Day 1
This is later than I had planned, but due to a number of unforseeable factors, I was unable to file earlier.
The trip was a huge success. We travelled all night and rolled into Vallarta at about 8:30 this morning a little bleary eyed, and the worse for wear and tear but VERY happy to be back and certainly better for the experience.
There were 37 grade 11 and 12 students, 3 teachers and two bus drivers in tow when we hauled out of Vallarta last Thursday at dawn. We stopped at about 9:00 in Compostella for the first of many bathroom/snack stops and all the kids loaded up on more sugar and starch. I was happy to discover one of the snack options was a display of hardboiled eggs for $2 pesos a pop. Quite an economical little treat. We settled in for the stretch with Tom Hanks in "The Terminal." By 9:40 we encountered our first gruesome wrack and stared out the bus windows at a tractor-trailor lying like a wounded animal on its side surrounded by a billion cans of Coke. The driver was being tended to by a crowd and it was fairly apparent the accident had just happened. Judging by the ruined guard rail, the truck had attempted to make a turn, was going too fast and flipped over probably more than once proving things don't always go better with Coke.
Somewhere in Gunajuato we came upon a huge eatery called "Buffet Manolete" which is a comida corrida style place catering to large crowds. We certainly qualified and the kids were told to pile in, load up and chow down which were simple enough instructions to a group of hungry adolescents. They made short work of the offerings and I witnessed great plates of steaming rice, carne in salsa verde, chicken in mole and beans disappear in record time. There was even a man dispensing strawberry ice-cream for dessert. Imagine feeding forty-two people for the price of $190 U.S. Such a deal! We made a mental note to remeber the location of our new friend "Manolete" although I'm sure the other fifty or so clients would like to forget us!
More to come...
The trip was a huge success. We travelled all night and rolled into Vallarta at about 8:30 this morning a little bleary eyed, and the worse for wear and tear but VERY happy to be back and certainly better for the experience.
There were 37 grade 11 and 12 students, 3 teachers and two bus drivers in tow when we hauled out of Vallarta last Thursday at dawn. We stopped at about 9:00 in Compostella for the first of many bathroom/snack stops and all the kids loaded up on more sugar and starch. I was happy to discover one of the snack options was a display of hardboiled eggs for $2 pesos a pop. Quite an economical little treat. We settled in for the stretch with Tom Hanks in "The Terminal." By 9:40 we encountered our first gruesome wrack and stared out the bus windows at a tractor-trailor lying like a wounded animal on its side surrounded by a billion cans of Coke. The driver was being tended to by a crowd and it was fairly apparent the accident had just happened. Judging by the ruined guard rail, the truck had attempted to make a turn, was going too fast and flipped over probably more than once proving things don't always go better with Coke.
Somewhere in Gunajuato we came upon a huge eatery called "Buffet Manolete" which is a comida corrida style place catering to large crowds. We certainly qualified and the kids were told to pile in, load up and chow down which were simple enough instructions to a group of hungry adolescents. They made short work of the offerings and I witnessed great plates of steaming rice, carne in salsa verde, chicken in mole and beans disappear in record time. There was even a man dispensing strawberry ice-cream for dessert. Imagine feeding forty-two people for the price of $190 U.S. Such a deal! We made a mental note to remeber the location of our new friend "Manolete" although I'm sure the other fifty or so clients would like to forget us!
More to come...
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