Nuevo Casas Grandes

We arrived safe and sound. The bus drove through the mountains and the roads were so windy and bumpy that Ila and Mei got sick all over the seats. That has been the only drawback so far. We have been staying at Hotel Juarez here in Nuevo for the past few days. The manager's name is Mario and his English is amazing. He has been a big help. Our hotel room has two beds and a bathroom with running water. There was even a little bit of warm water for a while this morning so I could actually bathe. Well, I wouldn't really call it warm, but at least it wasn't freezing cold. We went to Dublan yesterday and had dinner at the home of a family that we had been corresponding with from Raymond. It was nice to hang out in someone's home and get a lot of questions answered and have our kids play with other kids. We love it here so much. The weather is wonderul and the people are so friendly. They especially love the kids. They say benita ninas (beautiful girls) to Ila and Mei all the time. They receive more kisses from strangers in a day than they do from us.
The school that Liam will probably be going to is in Dublan. The first half of the day for him will be first grade all in English. Then in the afternoon he will go to kindergarten which will be Spanish and English mixed. If his Spanish is good enough later, he will go to first grade Spanish in the afternoon. So far we have seen one house for rent in that area, but we are going to Dublan again tomorrow to enroll Liam in school and look for a place to rent or maybe move to a hotel closer to the school.
So far we have seen one cockroach about the size of our thumb in our hotel room. The grasshoppers here are huge!
A little bit about the above pictures. The first one is Rus and the girls hanging out in the hotel room listening to music. The second one is Liam in front of a cool car - a beetle with a topper. The third one is the back of the hotel with the kids playing in the background.