We live rather close to the Chihuahua city deportiva, an incredibly nice park and fitness facility run by and paid for by the city. It's a big, gorgeous park, filled with trees, bike paths, jogging and walking trails, baseball diamonds, and (wait for it) an Olympic pool. You have to buy a membership to use the pool, but everything else is free, even some classes like yoga and pilates.


It was our first trip there this morning, so we just walked, amazed. It's clean and large and filled with nice, polite people jogging or walking or watching their kids play ball. At various places outside and inside the deportiva, there were vendors selling healthier snacks, like whole-wheat gorditas and 100% juice. We couldn't resist getting some of that.


Then it was on to the Soriana for some grocery shopping, but first a stop at Dona Flors, a craft shop recommended to me by a student. I had never been here before, either, and I was astonished. It was the best craft shop I had ever seen in my life - all in one place, yarn and needles and cross stitch floss and paint and brushes and canvasses and about a million other things. I held myself back to buying some cross stitch stuff, as I want to do more of that, but I could have spent practically all day and a lot of money there.


We bought tasty veggies and fruit from Soriana, stopped for a cold drink at a little snack stand close to our new church, which I believe is called Our Lady of Guadalupe, but I'm not sure about that. I hope so. I love La Virgen de Guadalupe.


And now for a pic of my latest painting: