Mexico City in a flash
Ok so this blog never has posts partly because I have so much to catch up on that I end up writing nothing. The other reason - laziness, of course. I decided to cut my losses. I need to just start things off with life as it's happening now but I'm having a hard time doing that so I'm going to catch you up on things in two blogs. This post will be about the couple of things we've been able to do in Mexico so far. Mexico has been amazing! As a family we've been able to do some really fun things. It's a good thing I take lots of pictures because Jacob won't remember any of the cool things he's been able to do and see here. When he's older we'll just have to remind him of all the stuff he's done. I'm sure he'll love that.
One of the first things we did when we moved to Mexico was take a visit to El Centro (The Center), specifically the Zocalo. The Zocalo is surrounded by the National Palace, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the Templo Mayor.
National Palace
Metropolitan Cathedral
The Templo Mayor
The Templo Mayor was one of the main temples of the Aztecs in their capital city. The temple was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521. Some excavation work was done by different archeologist in the early and mid 1900s. In !978 some digging was being done by workers from the electric company and a huge disk was discovered. The Templo Mayor Project was authorized to excavate the rest of the temple and a museum now holds all the artifacts that have been found. Here are just a couple of the pictures I took that day.
For Ender's birthday our friend Liz and her boyfriend took us to the ancient city of Teotihuacan to see the 3rd largest pyramid in the world, the Pyramid of the Sun.
Temple of Quetzalcoatal
Pyramid of the Sun is the big one on the right and the Pyramid of the Moon is to the left. The platforms you can kind of see is the Calle de los Muertos (Street of the Dead).
View from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. As you can see Jacob was really impressed by the whole thing.
View of the Pyramid of the Moon from the top of the Sun
View from the bottom of the pyramid
This last set of pictures are of these big paper mache creatures called Alebrije. The Mexican atrtist, Pedro Linares, specialized in making pinatas and masks. When he was 30 he fell sick and had hallucinations of these bright colored creatures. In his dream they were called Alebrije. He started making them and they became popular. Every year is the Monumental Albrije Parade that features more than 100 of these paper mache creatures. The parade ends a couple of blocks from where we live. Here the sculptures are displayed for two weeks.
One of the first things we did when we moved to Mexico was take a visit to El Centro (The Center), specifically the Zocalo. The Zocalo is surrounded by the National Palace, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the Templo Mayor.
National Palace
Metropolitan Cathedral
The Templo Mayor
The Templo Mayor was one of the main temples of the Aztecs in their capital city. The temple was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521. Some excavation work was done by different archeologist in the early and mid 1900s. In !978 some digging was being done by workers from the electric company and a huge disk was discovered. The Templo Mayor Project was authorized to excavate the rest of the temple and a museum now holds all the artifacts that have been found. Here are just a couple of the pictures I took that day.
For Ender's birthday our friend Liz and her boyfriend took us to the ancient city of Teotihuacan to see the 3rd largest pyramid in the world, the Pyramid of the Sun.
Temple of Quetzalcoatal
Pyramid of the Sun is the big one on the right and the Pyramid of the Moon is to the left. The platforms you can kind of see is the Calle de los Muertos (Street of the Dead).
View from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. As you can see Jacob was really impressed by the whole thing.
View of the Pyramid of the Moon from the top of the Sun
View from the bottom of the pyramid
This last set of pictures are of these big paper mache creatures called Alebrije. The Mexican atrtist, Pedro Linares, specialized in making pinatas and masks. When he was 30 he fell sick and had hallucinations of these bright colored creatures. In his dream they were called Alebrije. He started making them and they became popular. Every year is the Monumental Albrije Parade that features more than 100 of these paper mache creatures. The parade ends a couple of blocks from where we live. Here the sculptures are displayed for two weeks.
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