nosotros corazones son en oaxaca!

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November 18th 2009

Published: February 26th 2010

We spent one and half glorious months in oaxaca. it was everything and so much more than we had even hoped or expected it to be. both of us agreed whole heartedly that it was one of our favorite destinations on the entire trip. not only did we fall in love with the city but we loved our spanish language school, the friends we made and our teachers, the food we ate, the house and neighborhood we l... Read Full Entry

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all of our lucha libre masks at home

our neighborhood lavandaria

weighing our clothes to be washed

chedraui

another grocery store we frequented. often on weekends they would be playing loud salsa music to advertise products. it was exciting and i would start to dance in the cheese aisle.

graham and i at a cool crafts store

jerry's take out pizza

we ordered our first take out pizza, tages had an interesting time ordering over the phone and the guy got lost but finally we got our pizza and it had valentino hot sauce packets with the pizza. i love mexico.

Noche de Rábanos

The Night of the Radishes (Noche de Rábanos) is celebrated every year on December 23. Begun in 1897 in the zócalo of Oaxaca city. It lasts only a few hours but attracts thousands of people.

Noche de Rábanos

The event consists of an exhibition of sculptures made from a type of large red radish which can weigh up to 6.6 lb in weight and 50 centimetres 20 inches in length. These radishes are especially grown for this event, left in the ground for months after the normal harvests to let them attain their giant size and unusual shapes.

Noche de Rábanos

they had to constantly keep spraying them with water so the radishes wouldn't dry out before judging time...

Noche de Rábanos

The sculptures are made by professional craftsmen and aficionados, who are mostly radish growers. Themes include complete nativity scenes, party scenes with dozens of figures, Baile Folklorico, models of real buildings built with much detail, and saints.

Noche de Rabanos

The sculpted scenes include other materials such as dried flowers and corn husks but what makes a sculpture stand out is the created way of cutting a radish itself for effect, such as carefully peeling the red skin back and perforating it to create a lace skirt. A contest is held with the first-prize winner getting their picture in the newspaper.

Noche de Rábanos

that's a model of Tule, the HUGE tree outside of Oaxaca

Noche de Rábanos

i think this was the picture i took right before i turned and tripped on a piece of metal and fell into a crowd of people, my glasses flew off and my camera went skidding into a crowd. graham and tages weren't around but some nice ladies helped me up. i felt like such a dork!

Noche de Rábanos

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