Mercado!

Every Tuesday is market night in Cofradia, our little village. Vendors range from tons of fruits and veggies, electronic gadgets, hairbows, wallets, clothes, super cheap shoes, Mexican pizza, tostadas, cheese, fried hot dogs, etc. It's a fun time to be out and about and talk to people in the village. 

This picture goes out to my roommates from Spring and Fall of 2010, most especially Rebekah Bradley. Too bad she won't see it for about another year, but oh well. ha ha. This is real Mexican Corn or Elote. And man was it spicy! If a Mexican tells you it's picante, you better believe them. ha ha. It was good though. They roasted it over charcoal then dip half a lime in coarse salt and rub it against the kernels, then I added a tiny bit of some kind of spicy chili powder stuff to it. It was good but my lips were burning!

So. . .this is Mexican pizza. We got half Hawaiian, half Mexican. Also notice the "pepperonis." Is it just me or do they look like sliced hot dogs? Interesting. Definitely not American pizza, but it was decent, especially for 37 pesos. 

So we got the idea to sell cookies in the market from one of the ladies here in town. It's been great! We sold 50 cookies last week and 42 cookies or brownies this week. The first week we got the craziest looks, but it's been going pretty well! People even asked if we were going to sell them again this week. So there's at least some demand! ha ha. 

 This is the crazy gas oven we cooked them in. You have to take out that bottom metal part in the bottom part of the picture, turn on the gas dial and use a lighter to light it, put the metal part back in and hope it gets up to the right temperature. ha ha. Gotta love Mexico.

 These are the chickens we found in our yard, they also walked through our house at one point. That was quite a surprise. ha ha. 

 Huge sugar cane truck driving through town on our way to the market. 

Our friend Adeline who comes and works on her English homework with Molly and Allie while selling cookies. :) We sold all but 10 of them! We also made those t-shirt bracelets while sitting there and gave them to some of the little kids. :) They loved it! Oh and I totally wanted to exchange roping lessons for a cookie or two! Totally should have done it! ha ha.  

BEST FIND OF THE NIGHT!!!! This week at the market they had vendor selling super cheap (pirated most likely) DVDs. We bought Les Miserables for 20 pesos! Which is $1.65! AND the best part is it's in English with Spanish subtitles! And the video quality is pretty good. It doesn't even come out on DVD in the states for over a month yet AND it hasn't even come to the theaters here in Colima. Anyway, that was the best find of the night for sure. :)