Museum And The Doctor
This probably seems like a goofy title, and no, my doctor does not belong in a museum. It is hard to think up an appropriate title day in and day out. I usually try and put something up there that describes the day and sometimes it is goofy.
This morning we decided to go and try find the museum that Ciro has been telling us about. With his directions in hand we set out. We found it right away with no problems. After paying our $1.oo entry fee each, we began to look around.
This is one of the doors on the building that the museum is in. It is my favorite color of blue, so naturally had to take a photo of it.
This is a poor photo of a piece of a meteorite that landed close to Guaymas in the 1960's. This piece is very heavy and weighs over 200 kg.
There were many interesting displays. The paleontology specimens all (but 2) came from this region of Mexico. The oldest of the fossils were about 570 millions of years old. They also had a diorama of a Seri Indian cave and the paintings that they made, apparently similar paintings may be found in the Guaymas region. There was also a showcase with objects used by the Yaqui Indians. One historic fact that I found interesting, was that during the Mexican Revolution Guaymas had to print their own paper money for a time, as they were under seige from June 1913 - July 1914. They had several objects from the battles including a one meter projectile fired from the ship El Guerrero. Right at the doorway they have a large case featuring many, many beautiful shells. These shells are 1/3 of a collection of one lady, collected between 1920-1970, it is hard to find shells this size now because of over fishing the brochure says.
Part of the shell case.
It is not a large museum; but is laid out very well and also is looked after well.
From the museum we walked down the street on our way to the doctors office, where I needed to get my blood pressure checked. Ciro had told us about an old home (covering a block). He says that inside the doors, there is a courtyard with a fountain and the rooms are built around 3 sides of the courtyard. We found the house; but of course the doors were not open so we couldn't see into the courtyard.
Door to the huge home.
We also wandered by "Patios Leon", it is an area that you can rent for weddings, parties, etc.. I liked their doors/gates. The lions were cut out around somewhat like a stencil would be. On the right hand side lion you can see the light coming through the cut outs.

We continued on our way to the doctors office; but first had to stop and sit in the park by the Iglesia de San Fernando (San Fernando Church). The doors of the church were open, so we wandered in and I took some photos. It is a beautiful church.
A couple of the stained glass windows in the church.

When we arrived at the doctors office, it was nice to see that the only other person waiting was a salesman. The receptionist told us it would only be a little while, so we sat down to wait. You do not get rushed in and out here as in Canada, so I knew it would be a little wait. Two other people came in and the salesman decided to leave. I saw the doctor and we chatted about a couple of questions that I had for him and then we were ready to leave. We also stopped at the shop where I get my chocolate chips to see if she carries molasses. I want to make some gingersnap cookies, so need molasses. She didn't, so we continued on to catch our bus. Before going home we needed to stop at the grocery store about 3 blocks from us. This is the same street as the "shrimp taco lady", as we got close to the grocery store, we could hear the tacos calling us, so were forced to head there and have some tacos and a coke. While we were eating, I was reading the newspaper and noticed that there is supposed to be a Christmas Parade this afternoon at 5:30 PM (if I translated the paper correctly). So we may go to that. After eating we did go to the grocery store and then home.
If you are interested there are more photos from today in the album here:http://travel.webshots.com/album/556224469YzzOJQ?start=60 on pages 6,7,8 and 9.