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We’ve only been in SLP for 3 1/2 months now–and we’ve somehow somehow gotten our picture in SLP’s two largest newspapers in the past two weeks.

It’s not that we are famous or anything–but when you’re the obvious foreigners at a city-wide formal dinner for Rotary, the photographers can’t resist taking a photo.

Here we are with some members from our Rotary Club (Club Rotario Lomas del Potosi.)

(Another possibility is that the photographers are just using us to set their white-balance )

When we left Salina Cruz a year ago, it was small city on the Pacific coast of Mexico that many Mexicans didn’t know about (let alone the rest of the world.)

However, a homemade submarine full of cocaine does wonders at getting the most remote of cities into the headlines.  The last two days have been interesting for us as Salina Cruz had been mentioned numerous times in the news (and we’ve even got to see video footage from the beach at Salina Marques near Salina Cruz.)

No…not what you you were thinking.  These are actually steaks from the state of Chihuahua.

One of the benefits of living in Northern Mexico is that there is a much better selection of beef here (versus Oaxaca) and the best Mexican steaks come from Chihuahua (north-west of San Luis Potosi.)

We gets ours from a specialty meat store called “El Bife“.  Interestingly enough it’s owned by an Argentinean–but no imported beef from Argentina   However they do have chimchurri and parrillas for sale.  I’m still cooking on my portable charcoal BBQ–but it’s only a matter of time before I upgrade…

I’ve been really bad at updating my blog recently.  So to get things rolling, I thought I’d start with something easy–like a photo of my office.

The building is “Las Terrazas” (“The Terraces”) named because each floor of the building has a terrace of some form or another.  I work on the 6th floor (of seven) and my desk is six feet from the terrace (upper left in this photo.) 

On a windy day the breeze that sneaks around the edges of the door can be a little annoying–but on any other day having the terrace right there is really, really nice (in a matter of seconds I can be outside in the open air enjoying the sun and fresh air.)

The office is about 2km from home (close enough to walk if it’s not too hot and most days it’s less than a 10min drive.)

One thing that you can’t see in this photo is the farm of antennas and towers on the roof.  Due to the relative height and location of the building I’m pretty sure that we have a cell-phone transmitter for every cell phone company in Mexico.  The building also has the offices for the US Consulate–which means at least once a month someone asks me if I work in the consulate.