So this blog entry is coming a bit late, as our “real” 10-year anniversary was February 2, 2008. But on February 2nd, we a) had only been in Mexico one full day and were up to our ears in moving in, cleaning, shopping for necessities, and unpacking, and b) we didn’t have childcare to go out to dinner properly.
So we decided to wait a week to celebrate our 10-year wedding anniversary, and went out this past Wednesday, Feb. 13.
We went to a delightful hole-in-the-wall restaurant called “La Casa de Frida,” decorated, of course, with every piece of Frida Kahlo memorabilia available: pictures, paintings and little remembrances of her life. There was some original artwork, including also a fantastic painting of a tree that had branches curling every which way on the plaster walls, sprouting three-dimensional paper mache fruit at their ends.
The food was really fantastic, the restaurant specialized in the regional fare of Mexico. John had a divine duck mole, a sauce popular in the Oaxaca region of Mexico, containing as many as 25 spices! I had “arrachado,” a local Yucatan specialty that is basically a very flavorfully marinated steak, served with rice, plantains and avocado. The specialty of the restaurant is the “chile en nogada” from Puebla – a chile stuffed with meat, apples, pears and spices, and covered with a creamy walnut sauce and pomegranate seeds. We had this when we ate at Frida’s the first time; it was delicious, but you have to be in the mood for it. It's very rich!
We had a lovely time out that evening, our first time out alone since we have been in Merida. (We found a wonderful woman named Margarita who nannies for us 5 hours each day, and babysits at night too.) We reminisced about the last 10 years, but were ever cognizant of the timing of it all. It was 10 years ago (on Feb 2) that we were married in Mexico, and now we are back with Carolina.
As a matter of fact, February in general is a BIG month for us – our anniversary on February 2, and Carolina’s adoption date is on February 27. They are the two most important moments in our lives together to date, and being in Mexico to celebrate them has been a dream come true.
So we decided to wait a week to celebrate our 10-year wedding anniversary, and went out this past Wednesday, Feb. 13.
We went to a delightful hole-in-the-wall restaurant called “La Casa de Frida,” decorated, of course, with every piece of Frida Kahlo memorabilia available: pictures, paintings and little remembrances of her life. There was some original artwork, including also a fantastic painting of a tree that had branches curling every which way on the plaster walls, sprouting three-dimensional paper mache fruit at their ends.
The food was really fantastic, the restaurant specialized in the regional fare of Mexico. John had a divine duck mole, a sauce popular in the Oaxaca region of Mexico, containing as many as 25 spices! I had “arrachado,” a local Yucatan specialty that is basically a very flavorfully marinated steak, served with rice, plantains and avocado. The specialty of the restaurant is the “chile en nogada” from Puebla – a chile stuffed with meat, apples, pears and spices, and covered with a creamy walnut sauce and pomegranate seeds. We had this when we ate at Frida’s the first time; it was delicious, but you have to be in the mood for it. It's very rich!
We had a lovely time out that evening, our first time out alone since we have been in Merida. (We found a wonderful woman named Margarita who nannies for us 5 hours each day, and babysits at night too.) We reminisced about the last 10 years, but were ever cognizant of the timing of it all. It was 10 years ago (on Feb 2) that we were married in Mexico, and now we are back with Carolina.
As a matter of fact, February in general is a BIG month for us – our anniversary on February 2, and Carolina’s adoption date is on February 27. They are the two most important moments in our lives together to date, and being in Mexico to celebrate them has been a dream come true.
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