Saturday -Next trip to Mexico

1/30/10 – Saturday



Back to Mexico again. In the photos you will find photos of some of the blankets that they make.

We went early enough for me to look for some glasses before the dental appointments. I looked at a couple of different places and finally went back to the first place we looked. Just so you know, Progressives were only $115. They will be ready in 2 hours but we will pick them up when we return on Monday. All the dental work is complete except for Thomas picking up his partial on Monday.

Next a quick trip to the bakery to pick up fresh rolls that are wonderful and a couple of sweet treats for desert. We sat in the town square and ate a picnic lunch. It is fun to just watch people coming and going and to also watch the street vendors.

Wow, no real line to get back through the check point. This is weird on a Saturday. It seems like the American economy is hitting this area also.

This afternoon curiosity finally got the best of us. From our campsite we can see a church on a hill across the interstate from us. There are also several buildings in a crème color. Let’s check it out.

This is the town of Felicity, CA – The Official Center of the World. Population 280. The man who is mayor of Felicity was the one to construct this area. He has put up a museum in granite. When he moved here, he bought up 5 square miles of land because it was so cheap! He built the hill that the church is sitting on with dirt from his own land. Then he added the Museum and the granite in which has been engraved the history of many different things including: Language, French Foreign Legion, Arizona, California, Flight, Religions, Currency, etc. This work is not complete and workers were there adding to it. There are many granite faces waiting to be engraved with the history of something else. I took some photos of some that we found interesting.

At the entrance is a set of circular stairs. This is the 12th section of stairs that were in the Eiffel Tower before they were replaced with an elevator.

Just inside the entrance is a pyramid. Inside the pyramid is a marker for the Official Center of the World. When you stand on this spot, you face the church and make a wish. They give you a certificate marking the date and exact time you stood at the Center of the World.

It took us just over 2 hours to tour the whole area. We didn’t see it all. Once you pay for the tour which includes a short video, you can return at any time to walk through again. At least now we finally know what that is on the other side of the road from us!

As a side note!!! While we sit here with the thermometer reading 79*, they are getting 7 inches of snow back home. This is the most snow Rutherfordton has had in years. They are expecting more this weekend.
Wish you were here!