Trip to Guanajuato Do you like strawberries? “I found the biggest and most delicious strawberries.” These words were used by my mom to try to get me up at five o'clock in the morning when I was 10 years old. Now, whenever I eat a strawberry, I remember this trip and this story. This story happened in my country, Mexico. I remember I wanted one trip like this for a long time because in this case I was going with my parents. I mean I had gone on a trip, but not with my parents together. And now we were going to visit my grandparents and other parts to the state where my dad was born in Guanajuato. We got in the car and my dad drove like three Senol is a student in the Intermediate High ESL class in the evening hours to get to our first stop: Celaya. In this state we ate a wonderful breakfast, here is very typical to have the Cajeta and Fried Pork Skin/Rind. Then we continued maybe for one hour more and we arrived in Salamanca. Here was the house of my grandparents. My grandmother had been cooking in the kitchen mole with turkey, and tortillas with cheese of a goat, and my uncle in one part of the house had made a hole and he was cooking barbecue of sheep. We stayed another two days and in those days I went with my dad to visit my other uncles and cousins. Finally, we needed to continue the adventure and we arrived in Irapuato. Here we stayed in a hotel and we were so lucky because we arrived in the moment it happened to be the strawberry festival here in Irapuato. They produce a lot of strawberries. Some of the typical food has strawberries. Actually, you can find sculpture of strawberries. They have a very famous store: “Cristalita”. Here you can buy jelly, baskets of strawberries, milk, water, yogurt, frozen sugared strawberries, and other things you can imagine with strawberries. I had never seen and eaten a lot of strawberries, never. Then, we went with a farmer to this store: “El fresal”. Here, we learned everything about all the strawberry process. Alex is a student in the Advanced ESL class in the evening Now, I remember this trip with some sadness because my dad is dead and I really like that more people know about my country, but more about the state where my dad was born.
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