This was the second course. Aztec soup. I usually get it because it has no meat. However this version had a lot of cheese and always the tortilla strips in a tomato base and veggie soup.
That was after the appetizer of an cheese flat bread and an empanada that was stuffed with cheese.
And of course when we first sit down they bring us out fried corn chips with lots of different salsas.
Sister Machado had pre-ordered our dinner. I told her I would like fish instead of the beef. I was delighted it came with some steamed peppers. My first drink was tamarind juice, or at least a drink they make from the tamarind seed. I see the seed at the neighborhood markets. 

Dennis had beef prepared in the arranchera style which is cut very think and grilled. Everyone else had it as well and they said that it is particularly tender.
We had the best table of the house (which they had reserved well in advance) directly in front of the stage. And the Mariachi Band came to our table and play for us after the show. I did see Sister Machado slip them a wad of money afterward that looked like it was at least 400 or 500 pesos or about $30 or $40. Check out the size of that large guitar it is a traditional Mariachi band instrument with a rounder back. There was also another smaller guitar and a harp.
The show included several traditional Mexican dances. The man in this dance attended Benemerito and so the Machados knew him. Sister Machado was a secretary at the school when she was 15 years old. At the age of 12 her mother told her she had enough school and she would need to learn to become a secretary. She looked older than her age and was hired to be the secretary for the president of the school at 15. Her husband was a student here and that is where they met. The Benemerito school blessed the lives of many students both latter-day saints and non members for 50 years. Sister Machado later went on to become an attorney and her husband studied chemical engineering and worked for the largest gas company in Mexico, Pemex. He is now retired and they are planning to move to the United States where their children live.
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