This is my Oaxaca smiley face. There is a lot more adobe used here than in Merida and when the plaster wears thin or off, the wall is in greater danger of dissolving than the rubble walls in Merida. Actually, I think the wiring installations are better here than in Merida, although there is often a tangle of wires overhead.
To market. We don't see a lot of man power moving things, but there still is some.
These last two pictures are at the big market in Oaxaca--The Abastos. It is so huge that Kent and I were overwhelmed by it and don't think we'll do much shopping there. We were happy to finally find our way out. If we'd been lost forever, I think we could have found everything we needed, however. The market isn't designed for people like us, but for restaurants and shops and buyers who purchase in large quantities.
The picture below is what is in the yellow baskets in the foreground of the picture above. These are chapulines, a specialty of Oaxacan cuisine--roasted grasshoppers with chili. We haven't tried them. I'm not sure we will, at least we'll not try to make a meal of them. I think if they run out of ingredients they could come to Wyoming in August and we could supply them.
