THINGS WE SAW IN THE MARKETS

(More stories of our ten day visit to the Yucatan in January 2011)

Since we were in a tourist region 

we saw all kinds of souvenir items in the shops.

 I think these are some kind of piñata.  The bright colors made them very tempting. 

The ones I usually see are tacky, sun faded replicas made overseas.

 Musical souvenirs

 Vivid skulls were for sale everywhere in the markets,

 and the handbags of folded paper were tantalizing.

 Baking goods

 A big variety of bottled beans, corn and asparagus

 Poffets?

 Even in the smallest stores there were massive displays 

of lotions to prevent sunburn and cause sun tan.

 We watched a lady hand-roll cigars,

and saw a whole museum devoted to tequila.

 Chocolate was invented by the Mayans and Aztecs.  

This was chocolate-lover’s heaven.

 So much chocolate and so little suitcase space

 Somehow I don’t think this dark chocolate milk packaging 

would go over too well in the states.  

And I don’t EVEN want to know where they get Choco Melvin milk.