An Afternoon To Remember, (Una Tarde para Recordar)

My horrible cold seemed to have gotten better so on Saturday evening we went downtown to one of the plazas.  A group had organised an event for senior citizens called Una Tarde para Recordar.  This was I think the third event that they have held; but we haven't gone to one before. We know some of the members of the group organizing the event  and also some of the members of one of the bands participating, so decided to go and see what was going on.  It was a lovely evening and we sat outside at a restaurant overlooking the plaza and had dinner before heading into the plaza to watch.

They had gotten donations from businesses and private citizens and were giving out cookies, soda, coffee, water,sweet pastries, etc..  The Culture organisation was also supporting it in some capacity.

There were a lot of seniors there along with their families, the plaza was buzzing.  They had closed off one of the streets and had tables and chairs set up along with a stage for the performers.

 The organizers recognized the people they knew of who had birthdays in the month with a little gift.  There were some members of the group going through the crowd and asking people if their birthdays were in the month also, so they must have thought there would be more than there was.
Shortly after the gift giving the birthday people were served tamales.

A nice evening.

Yesterday I began to feel rotten again and looking in the mirror saw that my throat was covered with white spots.  I am not sure if this is holdover from the cold I had or if my immunity is down because of that; but I decided it was time to go to the Dr..  So off I went to Farmacia Similares to see the medico.
(I usually don't go to a Dr. for things I think I can fight off myself as I hate taking antibiotics unless it is absolutely necessary.)
The Dr. looked in my throat, said it was inflamed and infected and prescribed antibiotics, an anti-inflammatory and a cough syrup.  So 30 pesos,($2.38 CAD) for the Dr., 160 pesos,($12.71 CAD) for the medicine and a half hour later I was back home.  Hopefully I will be back to normal in a few days.
It seems like I have been sick off and on since we returned from up north, unusual for me.

The Worst Cold

I have pretty much been out of commission for awhile.  I haven't had a really bad cold for a couple of years and either I had forgotten how miserable they can make one or this was a doozy.
The first week I did absolutely nothing but blow my nose, cough and try to make my head stop aching from the sinuses that were not behaving well.
The second week I began to surface near the end of it and the last few days I am feeling almost normal and back to doing some cooking, cleaning, laundry and painting.

I think I have been away from the house maybe twice in the last two weeks or more and that is it.
I signed up for art classes again at the beginning of Sept..  I made the first two classes and haven't been back since.  I am hoping on feeling like attending tomorrow.

We missed the holiday celebrations and who knows what else, and frankly the way I was feeling I just did not care.

Tropical storm/hurricane Manuel came ashore south of us and we didn't even get a shower out of him.  We were lucky this time, not so others though.

So, no photos, no interesting tidbits to share, only the blow by blow account of my cold.  Ok, that was bad.

Hopefully something interesting will happen soon, or at least I will get out of the house.