Palm Sunday and Our Homeward Journey

Our last weekend in Mexico…

As we prepared for our trip home, we still had lots of opportunities to say goodbye to the volcano Popo, the city of Puebla and to experience an energetic Palm Sunday weekend at the start of Easter holidays and celebrations.

The city centre and markets were full of entertainers and observers on Saturday.. It was truly a joyous time for the young and old. Outside of the churches, weavers were making and selling palm leaf crosses. Parishioners carried these crosses into the churches to be blessed before taking them home and hanging them on their doors to ward off evil.

Every street corner had performers - jugglers, clowns, a Michael Jackson impersonator, dancers, musicians, artists, bubbles, vendors and more.

We enjoyed our time walking around in the city but on Sunday morning, we decided to go somewhere more peaceful for breakfast and went to the nearby Ecological Park.

It was quieter but there were hundreds of people taking advantage of what the park offered. All of the sports fields and exercise equipment were being used, people were walking and riding bikes around the circuit track as well as doing Tai Chi, yoga and even kick boxing. Other people were sitting around picnic tables or on the grass quietly listening to music and talking. The BBQs were being used and families were enjoying being in this beautiful park.

So after a lovely weekend, we left the apartment at 6 a.m. by Uber to the Puebla airport. Shortly after we got there, we found out that the plane was delayed by 2 hours. Oh oh. We were sure that we were not going to make our connection from the Guadalajara airport to Toronto!

But with help from the flight attendant who put us in the from row seats of the plane so we could get off faster, the speedy flight of the pilot (1 hour flight not 1 1/2 hours), the flight attendant’s phone call to Flair to ask them to wait for us, and a made scurry from one end of the airport to the other - we made it!!!

As we walked down to row 30, a few passengers on the plane were telling us that they wouldn’t leave without us. Haha. And they even commented on how pretty my Mexican blouse was! It was quite the welcome and we were totally relieved and happy about our luck.

After an uneventful flight, we met the Red Car shuttle driver and were home by 8 pm. Fergus time. A travel adventure right to the very end.Leggi altro