Crossing the River and Watching One Develop

It looked like rain, but we decided to venture into Progreso, Mexico. Came to the border bridge; weather was holding out. Greeting us was this sign. A nice welcome into Mexico.
Really want our business, huh?


Continuing across the bridge you can stand with one foot in the USA and one foot in Mexico. Second sign indicates the boundaries.

      Below-----the Rio Grande.             

The bridge is, of course, built over the Rio Grande.
Yes, you could walk through the water, thus, the Border Fence and constant border patrol. 
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The weather turned. It started to rain--hard. We saw this street dog, above, running around, scrounging for food. The raining came pounding down, we found shelter under the roof of an empty street vendor's cart. The dog found shelter under the bus. After awhile he just laid down and waited out the rain. We stood close to the food cart, trying to stay dry. They are redoing the street, where we were, and it soon faded from being a street to being an ankle deep, muddy river.

When it let up enough we made our way over to the local casino. Waiting out the rain we played their one cent machines. We played all afternoon on ten dollars! We were dry, having fun playing penny machines, that gave bonus after bonus; contributing to the Mexican economy!

A rainy day that turned out lucky. What more could you ask for?