Mexico!

Even the public trash cans are pretty!

Kids and animals: cuteness!

Critical Mass by the Spanish Aqueduct. Check out that dude scowling at me.

Deformed fetuses in the Natural History Museum.

Balloons for sale outside the artisan market.

Corn husk Jesus

Pineapple ceramico!

Ok, writing from Hostel Catedral in Mexico City. Decided to leave Morelia a day early after I found that I had pretty much hit everything I had wanted to see in one day. Here´s the rundown of Morelia.

- traipsed all over the main plaza several times and poked my head into the church, though mass was going on so I didn´t want to disturb.
- walked to the main park where duckies swim in the fountain. kinda wet all around with the rain. strange because i remember that too from when i was here before, lots of wetness. walked along the old spanish aquaduct. visited the museum of natural history, which was mini, like in a house. had a mini exhibit on climate in morelia and also a small room filled with deformed animals and fetuses! i will post some pictures that some viewers may not want to see.
- ate gazpacho! a fruit cocktail of finely cubed pineapple, jicama, and mango topped with chili powder, Valentino chili sauce, cheese, and lime juice. fantastic!
- walked through various museums and old universities to see murals and paintings.
- ate at fancy hotel cafe on the plaza and read a book i got in peru. felt very bohemian!
- watched movie, Pirates of the Carribean 2. incomprehensible plot. i forgot how much i didn´t like the first one.
- had delicious fruit yogurt from a shop that just made yogurt.
- oh, and had a breakfast where i was served a bowl of raw eggs. eck! don´t order huevos tibio.

Weitdest thing about being in Morelia was that everyone I saw was decidedly middle class. this may have something to do with the fact that i only hung around the central district, but even the street kids selling dolls wore blue jeans. it was a very different feeling from peru or guatemala to see that all the tourists were locals! Mexicans with digital cameras taking pictures of churches or out shopping for handicrafts and pan dulce with their kids at the market. Streets clean, even glossy with all the intermittent rain. I can´t say if it was good or bad, but just was so different from it being gringos buying things and the locals begging for money. Economic prosperity.

Oi. I´ll leave Mexico City to tomorrow. I arrived kinda late so haven´t been doing too much anyway. My trip is almost over! But tomorrow is my birthday and I´ll spend it at Teotihuacan seeing the Aztec temples of the sun and moon. Very excited about it. Till tomorrow. Hasta luego!