If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

We woke up to rain yesterday morning and simply stayed in the motorhome. Ruth made a big pot of pea soup and we had that for lunch before going out. By that time, the rain had stopped, but it was still overcast and fairly cool for the rest of the day.

Ruth had a list of buildings that she wanted to see, so off we went.

We had driven by a large park on our way here last Sunday, so we started off in that direction. Parque Alamada Hidalgo has been a city park since 1793, and it takes up a full block. But when we got there, the gates were closed. Perhaps it is closed every Wednesday, or maybe this was a one time  thing. No idea. There were people in there cleaning though.

Taken through the gates.

Zoomed in on the statue at the center of the park.

We'll go back there another day and hopefully it will be open then. We continued on up to Plaza de Armas where the dog fountain is.

In the Plaza de Armas

No idea what this is supposed to signify!

The Plaza de Armas is a nice area and has some expensive hotels and eateries. We went into one hotel just to have a look. The Meson de Santa Rosa Hotel is gorgeous. But as they say, if you have to ask, you can't afford it. So we didn't ask!

But we did look around. Mid afternoon, so nobody eating.

Ruth, in one of the hotel's courtyards.

Nice swimming pool area.

From there, we headed towards the Regional Museum. As I said, it wasn't the nicest afternoon, so maybe good to go into a museum. I was kind of museumed out, but apprantly the building that it is housed in was supposed to be interesting in itself.

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Busy downtown pedestrian street.

We made it to the museum, and they wanted 55 pesos ($4.40 CAD) which I thought was a bit pricey. But Ruth wanted to see it, so we went in. I was unimpressed by the museum, because I guess we've seen enough broken pottery lately! But the building it was in was nice. 

Ruth, inside the Queretaro Regional Museum.

And in the museum's courtyard.

A display of the facades of some of the churches in the area.

An old table. There wasn't much in the way of descriptions.

To me, it wasn't worth the 110 pesos ($8.80 CAD). 

We had to pick up our laundry at 5:00pm. We're finally in an area that has a lavanderia close by, so we paid 73 pesos ($6.00 CAD) to have our laundry washed, dried, and folded. Most places charge by the kilo, and this one was quite reasonable at 12 pesos per kilo.

So we walked back to the motorhome, taking a different route. There sure are a lot of churches in downtown Queretaro!

And this is why the city is so clean. They have a lot of people out hired to keep things that way.

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