Monday, getting new glasses

Today the four of us went downtown in order to get Caro her new glasses.

During our drive towards downtown we went past several buildings that were damaged in the earthquake over a year ago.

You can really see the damage around the balconies. This building is not safe and no one lives there anymore.

We parked in a parking lot underneath Belles Artes and then walked several blocks to the glasses shop. There are NUMEROUS glasses shops in this area of the city and we went to one that Edu knows. The guy looked at Caro's prescription and suggested some changes which Caro agreed to and then we left for a few hours.

Fernando had never been been up the Latin America tower so that is where we went. I had to get over a little queasiness but soon was OK (we were outside on the terrace, on the 47th floor).

I took a picture of both Belles Artes and Fernando/Eduvina while we were up top

Afterwards we had a great meal in a beautiful restaurant before walking to the Zocalo enjoying all the street life and the colonial buildings.

By seven o'clock, back at the optician,Caro had her new sunglasses, her old glasses frames with new lenses and had her new frames and lenses ready except waiting on some extra lense coating that has to be done elsewhere (and won't be ready until Wednesday afternoon).  The prescription that was done by the optician earlier had been sent to another shop across the hallway where the grinding of new lenses to meet the prescription requirements was completed while we were out eating/enjoying the streets.

The optical shop was really cool and we were able to watch the large lenses  (already ground down to needed requirements) being cut to size and then put to their frames.

We got back home about an looong hour later-TRAFFIC!!!- jeesh;  then we were surprised by the appearance of Fernandito. Great to catch up to him.