Continuerd from Oaxaca Day 4 Part 1.

They are still building out the wedding venue. Looks to be a really fancy wedding. The tour isn’t much of a tour so far, we are just walking right through the garden at walking pace and the tour guide said nothing.

Plumerias! Native plants, who knew!

That’s the little window into the garden that we were looked into during our first day here.

This is the popular spot where everyone wanted a photo opportunity. We did not wait in the line, also we didn’t want to bother asking for another person to stand on the other side of the pond to take a photo of us in front of the cactus.

Well, the tour ended up being not a tour at all for us. Don’t know the reasoning as all instructions were in Spanish, but we came into the middle of the garden and just stood around and took photos. Then we were guided to exit the same way we came in. Didn’t even get to visit the other half of the garden. Is it because of the wedding? Is it because of maintenance? Is it some other reason? Who knows.

This plant got base.

RL got base.

I bet this wedding will be super fancy and fun.

Done with the garden “tour” back on the street. Saw this Mezcal tour bus again.

Last night, for whatever reason, we both felt like drinking skipped the fun and went straight to hangover even before we got to bed. We vowed to do no more Mezcal tastings today. Vows broken. Walked by the mezcal tasting room that we were actually looking for last night. They had a door bell that you had to ring and you have to be buzzed in. It’s by reservations only, but they had an opening since not too many tourists here right now. The bar only sits about 10 people. We love small bars like this, reminds us of Japan! Alright, fine, I guess we’ll do one more mezcal tasting. But this is the last one this trip, serious!

This ended up being the best tasting we had, by far. It was a guided tasting and our guide actually had lived in Austin for 6 months as a mezcal brand ambassador. He also spoke really good English, which was much appreciated to help us understand what we were drinking.

All the mezcals here are from small boutique producers.

I asked to try a agave americana mezcal, it only tasted ok.

All mezcals we tried were 48% alcohol. We are already drunk.

We decided to buy some bottles to take back to do our tasting and to give away as gifts.

Drunk.

Drunk.

Then the guide asked us if we’d like to taste a 7th bottle…too drunk to say no.

This one was our favorite of the bunch. We ended up buying a 750ml bottle of this to take home for our own consumption. We have since tried it “not drunk” and still think it’s really good.

Done with tasting, we need to stock up at the grocery store before heading back to our hotel. Their dog food is sold in bulk here.

Must hydrate after the heavy drinking. Must try to not have terrible hangover later.

Dinner spot. We tried to come to here for lunch the other day, but they were only serving breakfast so we went somewhere else. Well, they are definitely serving dinner now.

Before we are even led to the upstairs dining terrace, we were sat down in front of the tortilla making station for a tasting of salsa and tortillas.

Fun.

But, I feel like this is just so they could upsell us on drinks since they don’t offer any liquids with the tasting.

We were led to the best seat in the house, a corner table for two. They had asked if we were celebrating something when we talked to the hostess, which we replied that we are on our anniversary trip. I’m sure that helped us secure this nice table.

Still trying to sober up from earlier tasting. I’m also getting some sort of sinus headache. Allergies? It’s also cold and windy up here and I forgot my jacket.

Quite a romantic setting though.

Passionfruit soda for me please. RL got some traditional corn mealish drink. Tasted like the milk that has been soaked in cereals. It was ok. I liked it more than RL.

Aquachile. I was expecting shrimp…but instead, we got sprinkles of “shrimp salt”. What?…

RL ordered some sort of white bean stew, that she was fine with.

I ordered a turkey leg in mole. Well, part of a turkey leg.

Unfortunately this ended up being our least favorite meal. It had all the right ingredients for a great dinner, but just didn’t turn out that way. Service here was less than spectacular, it was slow…liker real slow. The food was good, but just didn’t hit the spot. I’m sure it didn’t help that we were both trying to sober up and I was fighting a headache. Oh well, gotta have a miss sometimes. Good thing we’ve got an extra day tomorrow to spend here in Oaxaca to eat more yummy stuff. The corn tortillas tasted good!

Back at the hotel, RL sorted through some of the art pieces that we got. This is RL’s favorite from the buys, a local muralist. this is a print of a large mural he had painted.

He gave us this post card with some of his other work on there.

To be continued at Oaxaca Day 5.