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.
