Hello! It’s Haley, and I’m back with something a bit different from what I usually post! Today I’m going to explain one of the holidays that they celebrate here. It may be my personal favorite so far. El dia...
Not So Ordinary Things
Although it says this is a post from Allison, this is actually a joint effort between Dan and Allison. If you know us well you’ll “hear” Dan’s voice in this post. When you move to a new place you...
Anyone…? Anyone…? Bueller…?
I love writing blog posts. I love working on the writing, finding the right pictures, trying to write about things that are interesting, but still personal. At any given moment I probably have at least one post I’m working...
Updates from Haley
Hi everyone! It’s Haley, and I’m back with more pictures, and I also decided to write this week because I feel like I haven’t updated everyone in a while. So, as all of you know, we moved to Mexico....
Sherman Family: v2.16
The winds of change have arrived at the Sherman Family. We won’t call them resolutions because that’s just so cliche. So we’ll consider it a software update to version 2.16 that coincidentally happened on January 1. Some of these we...
Against the Grain
We live in a really nice neighborhood in Cancun. It feels a lot more like places we’ve lived in the USA and a lot less like where we lived in Panama. And we have a lot of familiar places...
So. Much. Spanish.
When we decided that Cancun would be our adopted town for the year, I was wondering if we would have as much exposure to Spanish, given that it’s such a sought-after destination for tourists, especially from the USA. Well,...
Christmas Cookies and Star Wars
Our decision to relocate in December was based on a lot of factors. The school year was finished in Pedasi, our lease on our house was up, we had already spent one Christmas in Panama so we wanted to...
Riba Smith + Whole Foods + Mexico = Bueno
We are sufficiently settled in now so we were able to go out exploring a bit today. I have not yet found my gluten free bread so we decided to go to a store called Chedraui Selecto, (note the Mayan influence, which...