Mexico City, Days 1 and 2

 Floor Repair: Stage 1 Complete

glass door unhinged

glass door stored in PH1

 Mexico City Day 1 

we are in room 1816 of the JW Marriott

view from our room

excellent dinner at Carmela y Sol: unique appetizers, share sea bream on pepita salsa and a "pavlova" for dessert, 2 cocktails, one glass of wine, $115 with tip. Uber both ways, $15 total

 Mexico City Day 2

Day 2 or 4

 Pics before heading to Mexico

Sandy has figured out how to snuggle under covers

Last lunch before Mexico City, a 2 giant trucks with boat trailers are taking up mucho espacios in front of the East Ocean restaurant. While we were dining, they were getting towed. They may have to put their boats up for bail in order to get their trucks & trailers out of hock 

Looks like a new Seyed Alevi imprint on a newly installed Emeryville utility box (at least this one isn't in the 2010 post)

Book Review

Flashlight, Susan Choi (read by Eunice Wong): An unusual book in that the many characters are actually aggressively unlikable. Of course, most of them are related in some way to each other, thus THB pulls out a truism: every family has problems and every family’s problems are unique. In the major event (well over halfway) of the book, a father and his 10 year-old daughter are walking at night on a small beach in front of their rental house and don’t return. The daughter is found on the beach, barely alive and dad is never found. Without spoiling the mystery, this portion of the book is based on a true story (way more extensive than THB is relating here). In addition, much post WWII information about Japan, North and South Korea, China, and the US is helpful to the plot and THB can verify much of it is accurately rendered (to the best of his knowledge). Highly Recommended