Extended stay...

Due to the weather in Houston and the timely tropical storm we called the airport to find out the delays. The reports at 8am this morning told us that the delays were running about 5 hours behind. None of us wanted to be stuck in an airport so the decision was to change our flights to Wednesday and stay an extra day in Queretaro. Everyone was pretty much excited to have more time to shop and time to have fun and take in more of the city.

Yes, today we shopped some more and really enjoyed most of all having the opportunity to not have a schedule or agenda. We did some historical things like visit the place Maxmillan was killed, the place where the Mexican Constitution was signed in 1917, and one of the famous houses that was built in the city when a man was trying to convince a nun to marry him (she still said no). We also had some other side trips we took like going to the rich side of town and going a private country club that overlooks the lake and going to a hill that overlooks the entire city of Queretaro and watching the sun set.

Most of all, interwoven throughout everything was the celebration of Pastor Amy's birthday today. When I say celebrate, we celebrated. Pastor Amy had the biggest, richest, most chocolate indulgent cake we've ever tasted - at 11am this morning. At lunch, the Pastor's son Dany, told the waiters it was her birthday so they came out with a Tres Leches cake banging pots and pans. At dinner, once again she was surprised as they came out singing and brought her chocolate cake and ice cream with a candle. She had an incredibly memorable birthday and was so grateful that she wasn't traveling the whole day.

There would be some pictures of some of the places visited and maybe even a picture or two of one of Pastor Amy's cakes included in this blog, but we are finishing getting ready to leave. Tomorrow morning we will have to leave the hotel at 6:15am to make it to the bus station on time. Please be praying for our safe return. We look forward to sharing with you at the Sunday morning service about this week and the missionary and her husband and son will be in service, too. Until then...