After meeting Carlos and Sylvia at their charming home in Pachuca we drove to the town of Real Del Monte or Mineral Del Monte. It is a mining town which mined silver and gold.
Dennis' dinner
Neal's dinner
My pastes which are famous in Real Del Monte. The mining industry was dying out and since it was an English colony at the time the Cornish people or people of Cornwell, England came to Mexico and began mining. They brought with them the pastes which could be held in one hand and eaten and then the end of the paste which was dirty from the miners hand was thrown away.
There are more paste shops and restaurants in Real Del Monte that in Cornwell
I love the plates we were served with. The restaurants here serve delicious bread before the meal.
Since Real Del Monte is a sister city to Cornwell England and since Prince Charles has ancestors buried in the English Cemetery there he and his wife Camilla made a trip to Mexico in 2014. 
We were at this same English cemetery today.
Dennis outside the English Cemetery
As we walked around Real Del Monte we stepped into a church where the priest was baptizing babies. The mother would hold the baby and the priest said a prayer (or something) and sprinkled water on the babies head. This was one of the most insightful things of the day because just before that we had met 2 Latino sister missionaries who were serving in Real Del Monte. The junior companion had just been out 3 months and recognized Sister Torres from the CCM. It was apparent to me that these good people who are having their babies baptized as infants need the gospel of Jesus Christ. They need to be baptized themselves and have their children baptized at age 8. It is obvious that these parents love their children. I am delighted to see families together. They just need to be sealed together for eternity in the temple of God.
Carlos paid a walking band to sing and play for us.
We walked up these steep stone steps. The town of Real Del Monte is in the mountains and so there are a lot of hills and mountains and steps.
An old Spanish church built and used in the 1700's
A cute little girl and her grandfather on the stone steps.
A fun washroom at the restaurant.
Back in Pachuca from Real Del Monte Carlos stopped at a bakery and we all bought some pastes. Some were filled with meat or veggies and others with apple pie filling.
A delightful women that Sylvia bought plants from. Her house was just off the stone steps
The miners hospital now make into a museum. It treated the sick miners.
mining equipment brought from England
The market and large green parrots. We have green parrots at the CCM also just not that large.
another picture of the church
Rock walls, rock houses, rock steps and rock streets in Real (which means Royal also) Del Monte
These are pomegranate trees. They are harvested in August or September.
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