Travel Journal: Tlaquepaque ~ The Open Air

My friend and I stopped for food and/or beers at many fine places throughout my visit, and I liked every one of them.  One place in particular stands out in my mind as such a nice place to be.  I may have just been feeling extra aware at that particular moment, but it was unarguably a beautiful place to pass the time. 

Most of the places we visited had a lovely open air atmosphere in which a strong, but not too strong breeze kept things cool and comfortable.  It is clear to see and was enjoyable to experience how the climate of a place can affect so much about it.  Guadalajara hosts mild, warm temperatures most of the year with a short, hot rainy season in the summer. 

As my friend said everyday we were there, 

"It's a beautiful day today: just like yesterday, just like tomorrow."

I really loved walking through the entrances of buildings, only to look up and see the sky, then to look around and see human made beauty ~fountains, statues and other works of art~ mingled with the many natural growing things of the area.  It was like this in many (if not most) of the places I saw throughout the city.  

As I said before, we spent quite a spell relaxing here and enjoying the quiet time of the day. I think we were the only ones there aside from the very friendly staff.  I had plenty of time to relax and soak it all in since Luke was too busy being rude and texting his friends in front of me most of the time we were there. (ha, just kidding!) 

We spent quite a lot of time joking and catching up while we were here. I do wish I had taken a photo of the beautiful angel mural in the back of the restaurant. We had been sitting there nearly an hour, enjoying ourselves and laughing much before Luke noticed that the painting on the back wall depicted one chubby angel pissing into another angel's mouth, while yet another angel shot even more angels in the ass with arrows! Forgive the language, but it was pretty funny if I do say so and provided yet another always needed laugh for the day.  

This is where I also enjoyed my first ever Corona Dark (the Spanish name is lost to me) - which is a very very tasty beer. You'll see this picture again when I post my "beers of Guadalajara post" as we made a special point to sample many good Mexican beers.

So, another post down and now I am off to cook up some tasty eggplant, red cabbage, tomato and feta pitas with rice and spinach.  Yum!  

Maybe I'll post again tonight. I have some topics and themes that I am pretty anxious to get to.  I would like to finish all of these posts by the weekend but that may be a pretty tall order. We'll see if it happens I guess. 

Adios for now!