Mmmm...Morelia

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The quality of food has great bearing on the impression I have for a place and after eating a lot of crap for the past few days it was a welcome relief to find Govinda's vegetarian restaurant here and enjoyed a huge tray of healthy food without pig fat or a tortilla in sight. Morelia is also famous for it's sweets and have a huge array of the boiled-chewy fruit variety and the marzipan sort..we found a posh shop with free samples so this took away the guilt of eating so many.

Since everyone had flocked to Guanjuato, Morelia was a very quiet place to spend the weekend. An almost empty hostel, just three other guests and a few turtles for company. Fortunately Gene entertained us all with some excellent (and easy) card games such as balancing the pack on a beer bottle and trying to blow as few off as possible, the one to blow the last card loses. Another involves balancing a card at a time on top of said beer bottle with two edges always over the side, thus forming a big umbrella. Beer helps.

The Morelians are very proud of their history and have a weekly sound and light show projected onto the cathedral with commentary in English and Spanish. It is rather cheesy but draws a crowd. it does have a very Spanish feel about it though and I was just not feeling 'Mexican' enough. I was also disappointed to learn that the 25 million butterflies I have been dying to see are still up in the US/Canadian Great Lakes and wil not be heading south until the climate gets a bit colder, predicted to be the end of November. So sorry Natalie, you are spared the 'person covered in scary butterfly' pictures! In ssearch of a more Mexican Mexico, I hot-footed it in a very long day down to Oaxaca...

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Photos

Lunch at Govinda's
Get in my belly!

Chewing gum tree
Looks gross eh? Random trees dotted with used gum!