If citizenship were attainable through actions such as we have done today, then, my friends, consider us cuidadanos de Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. We began the day by contributing to the city's art and beauty with a sidewalk installation for about an hour. It turned out quite well, and when I signed the pavement, one our fans actually called me by name and asked what we were creating. Unfortunately I did not know exactly what to tell him, but our work was beautiful nonetheless.
Once we finished and took several pictures of our work, we decided to catch a bus and move downtown to get some lunch. Once again, Brent's espresso addiction took us to the Italian Coffee Company, where we had a very confusing lunch and convalesced on the wonderful air conditioning. After lunch, we headed to the end of the block where we tried to get into the Olimpo, Merida's municipal cultural center, but it didn't open until 3:00, so we ventured out to the tatoo parlor around the corner for the next part of the student-planned adventure. We bought some henna (on Millsaps' tab) for a mere thirty US dollars, and went to this mall-type food court near the Centro to paint ourselves temporary tatoos of sorts for the next couple of hours.
When we finally decided we were done with our body art, we went on to the Olimpo to view the galleries that were showing lithographs of Salvador Baeza and paintings of Adela Isaac.
By siesta time we were quite worn out; in fact, Murphey, Beth, Clay, and I took a cab back to the house instead of a bus. Tim and Christina were off somewhere buying soccer jerseys.
Then tonight we went to Pancho's again in honor of the Business-kids' last night in Merida. It was really awesome.
Pictures will come tomorrow, as I am very tired.
Te amo,
Alli B.
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