Queretaro, Mexico - Day 3

I planned my stay in Queretaro so that I'd be able to go sketching with their urban sketching chapter. I met their 3 admins, one of who spoke good English. The group was very welcoming, and I loved sketching with them. It's a great way to meet people when traveling. They were doing a postcard sketch exchange with a chapter in Tokyo and gave me a postcard to contribute. It's very interesting as the sketching demographic is so different from what I see in the US. There were many men, and many young people. They had 30 sketchers for this meetup. After sketching, a large group of us went out to share pizza and pass around our sketchbooks.

After the event, I headed out to the calendar museum in town. It also has a beautiful courtyard. There was a Christmas play being put on outside, so I got to listen to part of it.

I find food here a little challenging. It's very meat based, and I don't always understand the menus, even with the help of Google Translate. In the evening, I walked out of the El Centro district to a large grocery store. I do love to visit grocery stores in other countries to see what kinds of things they offer. This grocery store felt very high end - like being in an upscale shopping mall. I almost felt like it could have been a store in the US. But I did find a new type of fruit to try, and they did have Pulparindo, a tamarind candy I discovered earlier this year in Texas.

Sketchers sketching near the Fountain of Neptune

Passing around sketchbooks over pizza

We stopped here, and I got some Taro ice cream.

My next stop was the calendar museum

Plaza near my hotel. It's very lively every night.

At night, I walked out of the El Centro district to a grocery store.
I'm always looking for interesting things to try.
This is a type of passion fruit.