Varon and Lulu need some extra cash for christmas, and so they decide to make up some gift baskets and sell them for profit. Seems like a jolly wheeze and I´m joining in.

It’s not as easy as you may think. You have to do a lot of footwork, and know where to go, and speak Spanish, and not look like a Gringo. This is fine for Lulu, Varon has a problem since everyone will speak to him in English, charge him double, and eventually ask him where he is from. I hear the same conversation every day, and when he tells them he is from Mérida they alwasy say “¿En serio?”, i.e.” you got to be kidding!”. Poor guy has “Gringo” written all over him. Anyway, Lulu is a star and comes back with lists of goods at wholesale prices and photographs, so we are chosing what goes into the various baskets. There will be 4 or 5 standard offerings. We needed sweets and so we bought some sample typical Mexican candies from the market. Here’s a photo.

The Dentist´s friends.

My favourite is the swirley one, I have my name on it, but I’ve been told I cannot eat the merchandise as it would be a bad habbit to get into. Besides not to compromise my skinnyness.

So far, here in Mexico, life continues to be sweet.

Weather update. It’s been dank and miserable for a few days. Still t-shirt weather, and in a way a relief from the heat. Mexicans are putting on their thick wooly coats and scarves. “¿Que mal tiempo eh?” one of the workmen now remarks each morning. I agree with him, but not really. Stay good!