We stopped by an artisan and the guy at the area taught us about the maguey plant, had some tequila and pulque.

Milking a maguey plant--picture from Google showing what the maguey plant looks like. The milk is then fermented to make pulque.

Pulque and Tequila samples--the tequila (from agave plant) was super smooth.

The start of the show.

Twirling hanging men show?

Quetzalcoatl & Tlaloc

Sun Pyramid Teotihuacan --sooo big!

group shot!

Before climbing the Sun Pyramid

We made it to the top! We took Charlie, our portable hard drive too!

booya!

Moon pyramid--there it is

Made it to the Moon Pyramid!

I got really sunburnt. I lose.

It started raining after we left the pyramids on our way to the aeropuerto. We win

So! Finally part 1 of pictures from my business trip to Mexico City. Most of these will be food pictures, because, really, the business part of the days were not that exciting…well, and it’s confidential so I couldn’t take pictures anyway.

So because we worked pretty late each night, we ate most (ok fine, all) of our dinners at the hotel restaurant Evita, which was actually Argentinian food, but was delicious nonetheless. The waiters (camareros) were extremely nice and didn’t laugh at our limited Spanish. We had the most delicious steak, but as hungry as we were when we got to the restaurant, we dove right in and I didn’t even think about taking a picture. It would have just made you drool anyway .

Star of David Starfruit?? Usually starfruits have 5 points. They must have known that I have many Jewish friends and that I would want to take a picture for them

Delicious tacos for lunch at the facility. The tacos at the top have pork + pork rind, and the ones at the bottom are delicious carnitas tacos.

Sangria!!

My coworker's birthday was on Saturday so we had them do a special dessert for her! We tried to be sneaky about it, but she arrived at the restaurant 30 seconds after we did, so we weren't able to arrange it prior to the start of dinner. After I went to the bathroom, I asked the host to arrange some sort of special birthday dessert for her, but when I got back to the table, I had no way of telling Christine that it was all sorted out and that they had agreed to do it. Then, towards the end of dinner, she gets up to "go to the bathroom" and find the host, haha and I was secretly paying attention to what she was doing and I hear "Oh! She already did it?" and some laughs. Our coworker was completely oblivious to what we were planning which was great, since I thought that our awkward looks and laughters to one another at the table would have given it away. Well, come to think of it, maybe we did give it away, and she was just being polite by saying that she had no idea

Alfajors! cookies with a caramel filling. Each of these had a different texture/crumbling effect.

Outside our hotel (pic credit: Christine)

another picture from outside the hotel (pic credit: Christine). In this picture there are no cars, but it was taken at 8am on a Saturday morning. Imagine the whole street crazy packed..that's what it would normally look like. Be thankful for Bay Area traffic, Mexico City traffic is nuts. We called it a "free for all" since basically it was a free-for-all sprint to see who can get the fastest into a tiny space to inch forward on the street.

Next, our adventures to :

Basilica de Guadalupe

Teotihucan - The Sun Pyramid

It’s going to be a long work day today 9am-9pm but on a brighter note, we just booked a tour with the hotel to go see the Guadalupe Basilica and the Teotihuacan Pyramids.

The dollar signs here are really messing me up. I keep thinking that prices that are actually in pesos are USD. For example, I thought that they were going to charge a $51.00 admission fee to enter the pyramids…then Christine came over and was like “Um, that’s only like $5.” hahah, oh, RIGHTTTTTTT.

I hope it doesn't thunderstorm

After getting up at 2:15am to catch a 7am flight at SFO to Mexico City… 5 hours, two annoyingly loud women, and many screaming babies later, we made it. We set up everything at the facility in the afternoon and then retreated back to our GINORMOUS rooms at the hotel. Taxi rides are extremely inexpensive as is the food. There are two TVs in our rooms as well as una sala y un bano muy grande.

It hasn’t rained since we’ve been here (knock on wood) and hopefully it won’t the rest of the time that we are here.

I’m watching “Latino in America” on CNN in the hotel room, and it brings back many stories from Latino friends who grew up in East LA. Think they’ll do an “Asian in America” series?

Until tomorrow. Buenas noches.

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I’ll be jetting off to Mexico City for work on Wednesday, returning on Saturday. Hopefully we will get to go visit the Teotihuacan Pyramids while we’re there!

It’s apparently supposed to thunderstorm while we are there, but lighten up on Saturday. I hope we don’t have to fly through the storm like we did the typhoon in Japan. Fingers crossed.