Blogs from Plaza de la Constitución, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, North America

Today the fags,flags, glitter, hot pants and crazy costumes came out, for Mexico cities annual pride parade. After meeting up with a bunch of friends, we adorned our pink velour outfit with rainbow headbands and set off to watch the parade..... and deflower my pride virginity. The streets were crowded with all types of crazy looking people in various get ups and ensembles, in some places you couldnt even move. The costumes were amazing, with a lot of effort and time put into them, where others (mine and Liz's) had five mins thought and 10 mins shopping time put into it. The march went on for approx 2-3 hours, having numerous floats, with scantily clad men and women prancing around to dance music that you would only ever like if you were high on ecstasy. But ... read more

Well I made it to México city! I was sick the first couple of days but after some much needed rest and after hearing that they found Lucy mi gatito (¡depúes de tres semanas!) I feel better. yay! Today was very eventful. I went to the templo mayor, which is the main temple for the aztec empire tenochitlan, all of mexico city sits atop what used to be Tenochitlan, which was a village of 200,000, peaking in the early 1300´s and sat in the middle of a lake. Anyway they uncoverd the ruins of this temple in the late 1970´s. It was pretty cool to walk through the ruins and then read all about the city and see artifacts in el museo templo mayor. I could almost imagine what the old city looked like before Cortez ... read more

Hello Everyone: I have 15 minutes to write my blog. I will start with Romon. The other night on the way home from supper we paused to watch tacos being made at a little hole in the all restaurant. There was a crowd of people sitting on those little plastic stools that I mentioned in my other blog. The cook whose name was Romon was the center of attention. He moved like a dipping bird, bobbing up and down, hands moving in all directions. He looked like someone who had to pee or like he was about to tip over at any moment. When he dug out the tortillias out of a bag when flip them on to the pan like a player dealing out cards. When everything was put on the plate it looked like ... read more

Hi All, Just thought we would say hello before we leave Mexico City! Not sure what our internet access will be like at Puerto Escondido. We climbed the second highest Pyramid in the world yesterday after drinking 3 really nice home made Tequila's!! One was straight from the plant another was made with Honey and almonds mmmmmm and the other just plain tequila, all really yummy! Teotihuacan was amazing, the view from the biggest pyramid was wicked. Being 2000 feet above sea level makes for hard climbing, and the steps are really steep, but pretty amazing when you get to the top! We seem to have done nothing but walk for the last two day's and we are ready for the beach and doing absolutely nothing for 2 weeks! Went on the tube on Fri, that ... read more

Do zahradnictvi pro venecek, nejake ty svicky a hura na hrbitov! Vazna tvar a pieta, zima a sychravo, letma vzpominka na zesnuleho…tak takhle mozna vypadaji dusicky u nas, ale v Mexiku je tomu malinko jinak! Sychravo mozna ano, venecky take, ale jde zejmena o veliky svatek jehoz mistni rozmery ten nas lehce premuzou. Hlavni barva dusicek alias “Dia de Muertos - dne mrtvych” je oranzova. Kvetinou cislo jedna tedy zcela logicky afrikan! Smutek tu vubec nema misto. Pripravy na svatek Dia de Muertos jsou velike. V kazde domacnosti, obchudku, hotylku nebo v kancelari se delaji oltariky, ktere se sestavaji z fotografie zesnuleho nebo zesnulych, z malych ci vetsich cukrovych lebek - calaveritas, z kvetu afrikanu, z kostlivcu a jidel a napoju, ktere mel zesnuly rad. Na hrbitovech vladnou hlavne ty afrikany. Pribuzni upravuji hroby a zdobi ... read more