Another day spent on the frustrating task of trying to scout out schools, neighborhoods and apartments. We looked around colonias on the south side of the city such as Las Brisas, Satelite, and Lagos del Bosque. They were areas José recommended. Some of them seemed nice enough, but it was hard to find schools there and most of the ones we did find either advertised themselves as an “escuela bilingue” or had English names like “Kids Town” and thus didn’t seem very promising since we really want a school that’s all or mostly all Spanish. It’s amazing what a plague English is proving to be for us. Even here in Mexico we can’t get away from it! We collected the names and phone numbers of the few schools we did see and will probably call some of them tomorrow.

In the afternoon we started to call around about apartments in Del Valle and actually went to look at a couple of them. We know there’s a school there that we like (Kinder Allegro), but we have to figure out whether there’s a decent apartment in the area that we can afford to rent. So far it looks tough, but maybe not impossible. We’ve both been browsing the internet real estate sites since Enid went to bed trying to stir up some leads.

Enid was really patient and good-spirited about all the driving around today, so we took her out for ice cream as a thank you. This whole process of trying to find a school and apartment is frustrating for us, but it must be even worse for her. Hopefully it will pay off in the end if we can find the right situation.

P.S. I was surprised this evening to find that MapQuest has complete coverage of the city of Monterrey.