I was a little nervous about arriving in Mexico City (known within the country as Mexico or DF). 

I had been excited but then everytime I mentioned that I was going to the giant megatropolis of North America someone would gasp and ask how scared I was.

Didn´t have any troubles, though, the whole process was amazingly easy and we had our hostel pick us up and take us to our corner of the city... Coyoacan.

The rest of the afternoon we kinda just meandered around the streets and then went to Frida Kahlo´s home...

It was incredible with trinkets and paintings and clothes all over... and the property that the house is on is deceivingly enormous for being in the city.

We didnt go to the Zocalo this time, we are planning on coming back a day early and staying near there so we can see the sights easier... typical gringa tourists, you know.

Spent Sunday with our friend Ivan in Puebla and had the most amazing afternoon.

We went to Cholula and saw the pyramid ruins and climbed all over the site where it had been before but now there is a church built on top of it... in the typical Spanish manner.

We ate in the market and had these incredibly huge quesadillas made with blue corn tortillas and these mushroom flower things that grow out of the corn husks... they are black and slimy and delicious. I am pretty sure that every picture for the rest of the day shows black teeth and happy faces.

It was so fun to see Ivan... we had met him when we were living in Guanajuato the first time and hadn´t seen him since we left that December.

Autumn and Lariza had visited him last summer and he told us that we were the only four people who had come to see him.  The only four people and all from the states... I felt awful, not cause we saw him, but that noone else from Gto... who is still living there... has taken the time to see him.

Wild.

We have now been in Zihuatanejo for three incredibly suffocating nights... the heat here is almost intolerable... my uncle Kurt would be even more miserable than we are. 

We have done nothing other than sit under the umbrellas on the beach and do, well, nothing.

We occasionally brave the kinda trash littered water and enormous waves to get a break from the heat... then it is back to the shade and reading.

It has been nice to do nothing but I am ready to get out of here and somewhere twenty degrees cooler.

Tonight, around 9pm we are taking a bus to Guadalajara and are going to stay with Dan.

Can´t wait to see him, it´s been about two years... there is alot of catching up to do!

This first week of the trip has been great and from here it can only get better... Mexico, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Chicago, Florida and then the big Spain...

covering all of the bases before I have to stay in one place for longer than a month!

xoxcr