Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Mercado in Guaymas




We discovered that Guaymas has an outdoor flea market on Wednesday so that became our destination of the day. The flea market did not meet our expectations so we wandered off to the city's older and more established covered market. The old market has everything a person could want - clothes, food, guitars, bags and of course the meat market that displays the pig's heads on every corner. The vendors never seem to get upset at the Gringos who want pictures of the meat market.

There are mobile BBQs surrounding this covered market and the gentleman in the picture was explaining to me that he was cooking ribs on the open fire.

If souvenirs are in order then this is the place to shop as it is clean and easy to move around. Unlike much of Mexico, bargaining is not the norm.

Side note: For those of you who don't know, my brother had very successful heart bypass surgery yesterday and he is now on top of the kidney translpant list. Keep your fingers crossed.

4 comments:

Marla said...

I'm glad to hear Rob is doing well.
Sounds like you are having a great time too.
Blizzards are nuts here!!! No buses, no ski trip.. -50 with wind chill.
But we hear that this weekend will be +2.. We'll think of you when we are at convention.
Marla

geri said...

We didn't know Robbie was having surgery-so glad to hear things went well.
Sounds & looks like you guys are having a blast. what a life it must be!!!
Am still resting up from the drama weekend-was another success, I think. Good thing Ferdinand wasn't there-a few of us missed a couple of lines-he would of been sweating. Take care. Have fun Geri

colleen said...

We hear things went well. Congratulations.

Snowflake said...

I see you took a picture of the dead animal head and it turned out better than last year's picture. Hope it wasn't the same dead animal!!