Great-Grandma Paulina, pt. 2

My mom keeps sending me these awesome emails from my great-grandma. I have always gotten a huge kick out of her stories from growing up on a former plantation in Kentucky, so this unexpected Mexico Memory Series is positively rocking my world.

Don't believe everything you read in the paper, you say. I guess I'm proof of that. I don't remember the why and the what for but I had to have a birth certificate for some reason before our first trip into Mexico and I didn't have one and didn't know how to get one. Sponsors of the caravan trip was Mexicanas Caravanus and their office was in El Paso, TX. I had to attend an American Baptist meeting in Phoenix for a week and on the way to Pheonix we decided to stop at their office and explain the situation. We very much wanted to go but I had no proof of my birth! They asked a few questions and said they would have one ready for us when we came back to El Paso. Sure Enough they did and I now have a birth certificate that shows that I was born in Trimble county, TX. And there is no such place! Maybe in Texas they don't know how to spell Trimble county, Kentucky.

If my Great-Grandma Paulina had a blog....

I hope this is what she would say. The following is an excerpt from her emailed response (heck yeah my great-grandma sends emails!) to my mom, who had let her know that she and my dad were about to come down here for a visit:

Have fun in Mexico City. We did when we visited there in the motor home. We had the tour of the city, visited the pyramids and the famous cathedral there. We travelled with a caravan of some 25 rigs, camped outside the city and were bussed in. We also went to a Mexican Festivale and that was special. Your parents were here Saturday and we ate at the Chunese buffet. Mary Alice and family will come Friday night to go to Ponderosa. That seems to be the motto in this family anymore "Take Grandma out and feed her". Today I have a dental app't. This world is full of fun!