The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[ajrwdwgirl]

Part 4!

After leaving the Old town of Tula, we decided to return.

The Trip went into a weird way as our Tour operator surely was in a hurry to return.
No seriously, this guy was going at 160KM/h in a 90Km/h highway.
Not fun. My mother had to tell him to slowdown a few times... No idea why he had that much of a hurry.
Anyway he left us in front of our Hotel. It was dark already and we decided to return, get ready and then go to eat dinner.

I was too tired so decided to just eat some KFC which was right in the main plaza.
Then returned to the hotel. My mom and Sister went to a coffee store and had some fresh coffee and biscuits.

We had a bit of trouble getting in bed as we only had 2 beds at the moment. So we were pretty tight space wise x_x

NEXT DAY:

Anyway we woke up pretty early since we had to rush to breakfast in the other hotel (the one we were didnt have breakfast facilities, so we had to go to the hotel that was infront of the plaza (in the other side), and use our tickets to get free complementary buffet).
Kinda weird to have to do such kind of things. But it was the same owner of the hotel, just different name.

Once we were done with breakfast which was ok.
We returned to clean up, and get ready.
I packed up all my gear (camera wise) and we waited for our next tour operator.

It was the same car and we got together with another car which was supposed to do a similar ride.
We talked with this tour operator (which was way trained and he apologized for the behaviour of the inexperienced one). We drove for 1 hour approximately all the way in the mountains until we reached the famous Prismas Basalticos (Basaltic Prisms).

Which is a Lava formation that was expelled from a nearby caldera and got cold by nearby water pool, making these lava condense in the formation they have, mostly hexagonal.

They formed a small canyon with water moving in the middle forming 2 very sharp shasms full of these kinda weak towering prisms.

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Note the left, these prisms were more than 20 meters tall and were slowly damaged, cut down or simply wore down by time and water to form the current formations.

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They built areas to enjoy the view on both sides, including a "puente colgante", aka a suspended bridge.

This area is heavily touristic, mostly for events. Its full of stores and restaurants and counts as a private/national park. they charge you entrance. Not very expensive and worth it.

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Interestingly, the area suffers constant collapse as these pillars by nature have "gaps" between each other.. causing some of them to be very brittle. and once they "unglue" or suffer a fracture.. its simply a matter of time until they collapse.

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So, you must wonder why "Prisms" ?

When you get close to a wet pillar from the top. The different minerals cause them to show different colours. Like it was made of prisms.

It of course depends on the water and the sun.
The effect was not very visible.

Have some Panoramas and images of the area.

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On the left, the waterfalls (3)and the chasms of prisms, in the bottom the "kisser's waterfall", on the right the infamous miner Ex Hacienda de Santa Maria de Regla. a hacienda who for hundred of years abused slaves and "workers" in horrible conditions for the extraction of gold and silver. (more of this in the following posts).

View attachment 245484 The bottom of the mini canyon.

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The smallest waterfall of them. Gets very big as its depends mostly on rains.
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They warn you to not climb the prisms as they are very unstable.
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The water also has not only power... but also its kinda contaminated.
Some fun moron decided to connect the drainage of a housing complex they built, right into the river that feeds a nearby lake, which in turn feeds the prisms's waterfalls.
On the bad side, the water is green and is kinda polluted.
On the good side, the water does not smell (probably treated a bit before it hit the lake).

So cool!! Looks like a neat place. It reminds me of some stuff I saw in Yellowstone.

 

[Cesar R M]

So pretty!!!

Is that a bridge I am seeing in #5 photo?

Yup, thats a rope suspended bridge.

 

[Gabe1]

Yup, thats a rope suspended bridge.

Did you guys walk it?

 

[Gabe1]

I guess you didn't count the fabric I have stashed for next year's presents or the assorted "emergency presents" I keep in case an unexpected guest shows up or a last minute party invite.

I bought DS a 12 pack of socks.

 

[Gabe1]

I'm feeling a bit guilty this morning

Ahh guilt. Are you Catholic also?

 

[Gabe1]

I'm trying to talk my dh into a real tree this year. So far it's not going well. The boys are on my side

My allergies wouldn't withstand a real tree in the house. I don't touch them even outdoors.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

Ahh guilt. Are you Catholic also?

Figmentfan423 said: "I'm feeling a bit guilty this morning" It was attached to my photo of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Yeah....I was curious about that post too.
Spill the beans @figmentfan423

 

[Gabe1]

I use Firefox too. I didn't like the new home page set up. I just found out that it can be edited, so it will only show the sites that I visit frequently. I noticed there was a teensy weensy edit button on the top right of the Top Sites. I clicked it and was able to get rid of everything else but the top sites. I use adblock and that helps.

Shhh....Ad block is a no no topic spoken of

Me ads are only an issue on this site and the nasty things it does to my electronic. The reason I became a premium member, ended all my issues. Woot!

 

[Gabe1]

Thank you all for the welcome.
I just finished watching Avatar for the first time, I can't say I loved it but I didn't hate it either. Watching it did make me more excited about seeing Pandora. It stopped raining so I will go for a walk now. I hope everyone else is having a nice Sunday.

Welcome!

And I want those hours of watching Avatar back. Cool graphics but the move dragged. That is why movies normally get edited. Arg.

Our rain stopped late last night. Finally.

 

[Cesar R M]

Sigh.. My bad luck started to row again (first world problems)..

1. Went to the movie theatre.. they gave me a broken hotdog platter, so when I was grabbing it, my food flipped and I ended staining my shorts with tons of mustard.
2. Returned in time to get a notification that my payment was declined on my Amazon purchase.
3. Amazon was suddenly refusing all my credit cards with no reason. I was p***ed (2nd time it happened this year). So I decided to cancel the order and renew. No problem right? NOPE...
4. The product disappeared from the list. So now I had no discount nor any monthly payments(no interest). The only available vendors only had full price.. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. So no upgrade for me.

 

[Cesar R M]

Did you guys walk it?

Yeah, its the main way to get to the other side.
No photos of the bridge itself since they all have my family in it

 

[Gabe1]

OMG that all looks so good. Blaze was on my list of qs places to visit but we never made it because we spent more time in UNI than originally planned

Have you seen some of the lights at Uni Florida. I wanta go!

Your boys would love it! They are dabbling their feet into competing inch by inch.

I wish Disney would consider doing something like this with their holy rock formation called FLE Mountains. That could be warm and fuzzy. The loss of Osborne could be made up here easily.

So much lost potential. They can draw some of the over crowding from the hub.
Did you see Saturday when the Cast lost crowd control over the 'savior' the new hub? The guest revolt? They took took over the hub and all the forbidden walkways cause there was nowhere for them to go and held their ground. Crazy nuts. We saw this during Hurricane Irma. Keep putting more and more in a hub that doesn't have the square footage to accommodate no matter how they try to pretend it does. My call, spread it out. I want to see how Sunset works for DHS, that street and area is so narrow.

 

[Gabe1]

Figmentfan423 said: "I'm feeling a bit guilty this morning" It was attached to my photo of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Yeah....I was curious about that post too.
Spill the beans @figmentfan423

Ha! Oddly we have a lot of Catholics on this thread, go figure. Me one of them. I'm one of the bad ones, a disgruntled one from our History of Priests and their lets say behavior with our kids to put it delicately in the greater Chicagoland area and two from my tiny town. So I'm one of those that have that yin yang. I do the guilt Sundays too.

 

[Gabe1]

Sigh.. My bad luck started to row again (first world problems)..

1. Went to the movie theatre.. they gave me a broken hotdog platter, so when I was grabbing it, my food flipped and I ended staining my shorts with tons of mustard.
2. Returned in time to get a notification that my payment was declined on my Amazon purchase.
3. Amazon was suddenly refusing all my credit cards with no reason. I was p***ed (2nd time it happened this year). So I decided to cancel the order and renew. No problem right? NOPE...
4. The product disappeared from the list. So now I had no discount nor any monthly payments(no interest). The only available vendors only had full price.. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. So no upgrade for me.

Sorry. I have a package to give back to Amazon this week. So not what was pictured.

And sorry about the mustard. Hate that when you are out on town. Do you have Fantastic spray cleaner in Mexico? Oddly that particular cleaner works well in breaking down Mustard.

I couldn't figure out why Uber was refusing my ride request as declined yesterday.
Ooops. New debit card since my last Uber ride. Ugh.

 

[Cesar R M]

Sorry. I have a package to give back to Amazon this week. So not what was pictured.

And sorry about the mustard. Hate that when you are out on town. Do you have Fantastic spray cleaner in Mexico? Oddly that particular cleaner works well in breaking down Mustard.

I couldn't figure out why Uber was refusing my ride request as declined yesterday.
Ooops. New debit card since my last Uber ride. Ugh.

It was more than mustard (also Mayo , Chili, Onion, Tomatoes). But the mustard was the main culprit.
Left my affected clothes washing in water for the night to remove the stains.

As for the package.. this is beyond stupid.
I did check again as soon the 12th hour clicked in the clock. And the product appeared again in the store. Only 1 left (which was obviously the one I was going to buy before)
So.. whatever happens, I'm not going to let go this time. (in short, I managed to snatch the more powerful product again for the same discounts and months with no interest rate)

 

[Figgy1]

Yeah, the crazy of "retro" classic games is going hard.
A lot of older games are getting remade or "remastered" for new computers and consoles too.

The SNES classic is a hit everywhere.

I'm hoping the grandmas remember to get the boys some of the Hasbro Family fun night games for either the 3 or 4. Fun for them less picking up of stuff for me. I'll keep the "board" games for power outages

 

[Figgy1]

Sometimes they even return the money to your CC with no communication whatsoever.
Example. I once bought 2 cartridges of ink for my printer.
They were around 145 USD each one.
Next day after shipping they went down to 142 USD.

I got 3 USD back on my CC the week after I received them.


*edit*
Just talked with Amazon, they cancelled my older order and I just ordered the new one.
The difference in performance between the products I had purchased is like 30%.
The price difference was mere 25 USD.

My dh has Prime so he ordered something about a week and a half ago thinking it would be here in 2 days. Long story short after dealing with customer service for quite a few of them it was supposedly reshipped yesterday overnight N/C. We'll see.
Me I go to a store buy something and it's home the same day

 

[Figgy1]

 

[Figgy1]

Did you find the sand? I hope you managed to get everything done!

THNX for asking, long story short 3 stores later(I had to go to all but one so no prob) I wound up ordering it

 

[Figgy1]

Aldi has the best frozen green beans out of all the fresh and frozen I've tried. Very thin and tender. Large bag under $2 for 16 ounces.

SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to make casserole from scratch with our allergies and that includes chopping the mushrooms. It's bad enough he found the broccoli and cheese I hid.