Xalapa!!

Sooo I’m getting behind again on this, but three weekends ago my friends and I set off for Veracruz. Things didn’t go exactly as planned and the place we planned to stay at (all 9 of us) was a tiny one bedroom apartment, we could barely fit in it standing. So we headed off to someone’s house and they lead us around the town, (we had no idea what was going on) and finally we get to this dark gate and dirt path, we follow this lady up in our van and we see a barn and the helpers house, we were seriously beginning to doubt our Spanish skills when all of the sudden at the top of this hill/ dirt path was a gigantic house complete with a pool and outdoor balcony, patio, the works, and it was all for us. It was an older farm house, it was soo neat and it was complete with horses!

So for the weekend we rode horses, went white water rafting, making fires and explored the little farm town. It was a blast and we never even made it to Veracruz! We were in the town of Xalapa which is in the state of Veracruz but our original plan was to go to the beaches in Veracruz. Who knew!

(the black horse was the one I rode, and the guy next to me is the only other person who knew about horses so we had a good time helping everyone out!)

The pic up top is the view from our "ranchero"

And the one below, our raft!!

The dirt path up to our house...not nearly as intimidating during the day. I don't have a picture of the house yet but I'll get one soon!