Mexico City day 2!!

(bellas de artes)
The next day we woke up and headed off on a tour with our guide who was about 5 ft and had a cane, in the morning we were all wondering how he was going to be able to keep up with us…but he showed us. His name was Rafa and we all had to scurry the whole day to keep up with him and when we weren’t paying attention he would smack us with his cane! Haha I loved him, he had a lot of personality. But anyway we went to see one of Diego Riveras murals first and then to an art museum and then we went to Bellas de Artes and then to the original post office and then went to see meteorites that had hit Mexico and then to la barra opera which is a bar where someone famous was shot (I forget) and then to the biggest cake making place ever, the cakes were bigger then my body! Emily would have loved it!!!

And then we saw these people doing traditional dancing right on the street, and then we went to see Tenotichlan, one of the most famous Aztec’s site, it was there “capital” back in the day. This picture shows what Mexico City use to look like at one time. It was a bunch of pyramids that one in the center is where we were standing, in the middle of the city where the Tenotichlan ruins are, and all the blue around it is a lake! At one time Mexico City was all under water.

After we left our tour guide we were all exhausted so we went up to the top story of a Sears that overlooked the building Bellas de Artes and relaxed and took in the sights of the city. Later that night we headed out to a Zocalo to hear a bunch of mariachi bands play, there was so many playing at once it was hard to separate the songs but it was still a good time, and afterwards we headed to a club that had a live band playing Salsa and Cumbia music.