We woke to the day with trepidation as I went with Grace last night to take Sloane to hospital as she was throwing up and Grace, quite rightly was concerned that she was getting the gastro that had affected the day care. \240I left Grace at the hospital at about 11pm as she waited for the test results and she got home about midnight. \240Seems the doctor thought it was a random vomiting episode and we should be OK to travel

We met at the airport at about 8am and got smoothly through ticketing and immigration. \240Sloane wasn’t too happy about meeting the airline pilots although they seemed to love the camera.

We arrived at about 7:30pm last night and we all felt shattered. \240Alex landed from San Francisco about 8pm and he made good time getting through immigration etc and a 30 minute taxi ride to get to the house at about 10pm.

I gave him a quick run down on the house and where he was sleeping and I heading off to bed feeling a bit disorientated.

Sloane’s body clock was all out of whack and she woke crying several times during the night which was hard on everyone especially Grace. \240She finally got to sleep at about 3am and slept through to 8am.

Helen, Alex, myself and Sloane went out for a walk to a local park where there are plenty of cafes etc.

At about 1am Sloane took a turn for the worse again and I took Grace and Sloane in a Uber to the Hospital General. \240We picked up Andrew and Dany on the way as we had no guarantee of getting an English speaking doctor. \240It was a grim scene as we turned up as only one family member is allowed in and there were probably 50 or more people hanging around outside. \240Most of them did not appear to be ‘well to do’.

We did find an English speaking doctor and seemed very nice so Andrew and Dany didn’t stay long. \240The doctor put a bag on Sloane to catch urine but is just all leaked out into her nappy. \240She was given a prescription for a inflamed throat ‘with secretions’ and just before 7am we got out and called a great Uber driver who took us to a pharmac to fill the order.

Grace, Sloane and I went to bed for a couple of hours then we tried the penicillin on Sloane, I then took her out for a walk and she vomited everywhere. \240Dany got in touch with a home doctor service and they came out and gave Sloane 2 injections, one for penicillin and one directed at the throat issue which they said would probably cause the vomiting. \240I need to administer the next three injections, which is going to be testing on everyone

It’s been a horror start to this holiday and so much worse for Sloane and Grace.

Another bad night with Sloane not going to sleep until about 3am. \240As Helen was staying just down the road with Raewynne who arrived from Canada late last night, I got Grace to try and sleep in our bed and I went to her room with Sloane. Pretty difficult to hear her grizzling for however many hours but eventually she went to sleep.

In the morning we had to wake her as she needed her Antibiotic injection every 12 hours. \240Grace again had no sleep but kept together and held Sloane still while I gave her the injection on her backside. Unfortunately I had to do it twice as I think I must of gone too deep the first time and I couldn’t push the plunger on the syringe. The second time was fine (Lessons Learned), although Sloane was not happy about it.

She soon calmed down and I gave her a weetbix which she ate really well and then once I had breakfast, I took Sloane out for a walk.

Another tiring night as I think Sloane has to yet adapted to the time zone. \240I slept in her room as Grace was prescribed sleeping tablets would not of been in any fit state to look after Sloane. \240she cried most of the night, she refused a bottle of milk and her water. Then I made a fresh bottle at 5am and thank god she took it and went to sleep.

We missed the next tour beginning but Grace felt a lot better in the morning although a bit spaced out, she said she’d like to join the tour once Sloane was awake. I gave the poor wee girl her final injection and she ate her breakfast, we Uber’d to join the tour.

We met up at the Frida Kahlo museum, I didn’t realise how much her an her husband were so influential, know many communist leaders etc.

So today we leave Mexico City on our way to Puebla, stopping off at \240Cholula on the way. It was a frantic pack to be out of the house and to meet the bus carrying the wedding party on our next leg.

Free day in Puebla and still Sloane is struggling with sleeping consistently through the night. Weather wise, it’s been quite hot some days, although today was a little cooler which was nice.

Wedding Day

Of all days I woke up with the runs but a couple of ‘Gastro Stop’ tablets seemed to put and end to that although my stomach was a bit off. The wedding was due to start at 5pm, with everyone meeting at our hotel rooftop bar from 3pm. The buses were due to leave at 4pm although we didn’t get away until 4:20 and we ended up not arriving until 5:10 due to traffic etc.

It didn’t seem to matter as the ceremony was unlikely to start without us. The venue was at the Hacienda Real Puebla, which had a lovely little chapel on the property.

We arranged to meet Andrew, Dany and Alicia in the zocalo for breakfast and our farewell to them.

We met them at one of their favourite restaurants in Puebla, Mi Viejo Pueblito and had a cooked breakfast. \240Helen was surprised after ordering eggs to be served \240what looked like a giant chocolate sausage. It was scrambled eggs with refried beans.

We finally got to SMA just before sunset. The streets

San Miguel de Allende

Woke up to a beautiful cool morning and as a bonus, Sloane slept right through woo hoo.

Guanajuato

Yesterday, Helen and I thought it would be nice to get out and take a drive to see some of the countryside. \240As Sloane took a long nap we decide to postpone the drive until today.

Grace was keen to catch up on some sleep so we took Sloane with us on a trip to a town that looked interesting, called Guanajuato. Guanajuato was big on silver mining back in the day and was only about a 1 hour 45 minutes drive away.

Neither Helen or I know how we deviated from the route, but we ended up going via a town called Dolores Hildago. \240Unfortunately this made the trip to Guanajuato into a 2 hour 30 minute trip. As we got to the outskirts of town, we noticed some official looking guys beckoning us to pull over and we I slowed down, we realised they were trying to get people to buy a tour.

We decided to go to the wooded area that Susan had mentioned yesterday. \240We called in to the giant Sainsburys store to get an international adapter as phones etc needed charging.

As we were there about 10’ish, we stopped for a cup of coffee in the cafeteria (and a danish).

We got to the church where you can park around 11am and walked about one kilometre to Hill House woods. The woods are quite famous at this time of year for the Bluebells that flower here and although we were a few days early to see them in their full glory, the made a lovely spectacle.