Teotihuacán Pyramids near Mexico City and even a BIKE RACE!!!!

Today was our last and only completely free day to visit historical and cultural places of interest here in Mexico City. With the dog show over we decided to make the 50 Km drive to the pyramids build by the mesoamerican people before the time of the Aztecs. We met a very nice couple while eating breakfast yesterday and decided to go together to share the cost of the trip. Mind you I use the term couple loosely, because this particular couple was without a penis between the two of them. We set out at 8 in the morning and made the 1 hour drive to the north of the city and after sitting in morning traffic (which is a spectacle in itself) finally made it to Teotihuacán. My new lesbian friends and I walked to the top of the pyramid of the sun ( or Sol for my spanish speaking friend). My mother waited at the top of the first level catching her breath. I'm happy to say that my extensive experience in cardio activities enabled me to get to the top first. The view from the top of this pyramid would have been much better if the haze aka pollution was not so bad ( but it is the most polluted city in the world). Videos and pics to follow once I am able to get my hands on a camera cable.

You will never guess what I saw yesterday morning. Do I have you salivating yet..... . I had the pleasure to see a family bike race on the large avenue near my hotel. Don't worry I took pictures of some bikes and the race. It was more of a community ride on one of the largest streets in the city than a race. I did see a few people with were dressed in the correct attire ( I even saw a kit on a kid from Mexico) Many of the people were riding steel "double suspension" mountain bikes. There were only a few road bikes, but I did manage to see a Colnago from at least the 70's (very cool), a few bianchi's, and best of all an ORBEA!!!! (but alas it was a mountain bike) I felt relatively confident that I would have been able to drop all but a few people in the race. I got a few weird looks for taking picture of people's bikes. This bike race was accompanied with a women only 5 k run(walk). Any way it is time for me to go back to a restaurant that we at a few days ago that has possibly the best mexcian food in the world. Their daily special on mondays is mole ploblano, muy delicioso! I will have some time to kill in the airport tomorrow, so be expecting an update. And unless it is too much trouble post a comment you bastards!

Floating gardens a bust

Today I was blessed not to have to make the long and boaring journey to the dog show. Instead I slept in and then had to figure out how to describe to a driver on the phone where and how to pick my mother up from the show ground. With my limited spanish skills this was quite the challenge. I would say that my spanish skills are similar to Evan's (not good). When my mother finally returned to the hotel, she was intent on going and dpending one of our few sightseeing days at this place called the floating gardens. 1e aquired a driver for the approx 1 hour trip across the entire city to the south. We made our way to the edge of the canal system in which a large number of boats that were so brightly coloured (that's for my european friends) that if you looked uppon them for to long blindness was certainly to follow. We boarded a boat that way surrounded by other boats on all sides. We then some how got the boats around us to part like moses and the red sea to allow us passage onto the canal system. The propulsion system was a man with a large stick much like you would see in venice, but with none of the class. We were them bombarded by merchants peddling their crappy tourist items via smaller boats. I think that I have said "no gracis" so many times that I will be saying it in my sleep. Apparently the gardens which were susposed to be breath taking are still in the dead stage of life. We went about 2 k up the canal and turned around and continued back the way we came. The total elasped time of said boat ride to look at the non existant gardens 38 minutes. The price for the fabulous forae on a dirty canal 300 pesos ($30 for my american friends.) We then had to endure horendous friday afternoon traffic to get back to the hotel so we could again return to the god forsaken dog show to engage in more waiting and sitting on a concrete floor until I no longer have feeling in the lower 2/3 of my body. As I am sitting here writing this a black lab owned by a mexican rescue team member took the liberty to squat and take a massive shit about 15 feet away from where I am sitting. How joyfully plesant! Let me asure you that this was not the first occurance of a dog performing this action in my immediate vaccinity. The only benefit that I can possibly see from todays adventure was getting to see much of the city from the back seat of a car. I drove right by the national university which according to my driver has 250,000 students. + guess I am out of inspiration, thanks for suffering through my slaughter of the english language. Adios para ahora.

floating gardens a bust

Mexico D day + 2

If I had to sum up today with one sentence it would be bored out of my mind at the dog show. I awoke this morming not feeling so hot (too many margs last night) at 5 am. After getting dressed I made my way to the bus (without coffee) that would be taking us to the dog show. The show started an hour late (still no coffee) all the while not a chair in site. I was finally able to have breakfast at 9:30 (finally good strong coffee). I followed this breakfast with 3 beers all the while reading cycle sport. These beers were followed closely with nap time. After a much deserved nap (all be it a bad one) I was able to Procure my mothers blackberry which I discoverd could be a very usefull for sqelching this everlasting boardome. I took this time to catch up on all of the giro action that I have been missing here. I then had to spend countless minutes tryinh to get into my blogger account on the mobile device. You can see that I was finally sucessful due to this update. I am now at hour number 11 at the dog show with no end in sight. I hope to eventually return to civilization before the day is out. Asta lluego.

Leaving for Mexico City

For those of you who don't know I am now in Mexico City sitting at the lobby bar working on a looong over due update. This trip had a very insteresting start. I went out to dinner with my new older lady friend the night before I left. After an uneventful dinner, I returned back to my casa and got the rest of my things together for the trip. I then went to her house in Kersey to spend some quality time with her before I had to continue to my mothers house to leave for the airport the following morning. When I got to Kersey I walked in the door to a very dejected looking lady friend. I soon discovered that one of her children, yes she has two kids, was in trouble for something. Learning all of the juicy details, I discovered that the daughter was caught trying to steal a shirt from the Greeley mall.(This is after going shopping with mother earlier that day) I found out that she sent the father(x-husband) to bail out the daughter from the loss prevention office at the mall. This put a serious damper on our "quality time". We then discover that the store had decided to involve GPD (Greeley Police Department). We figured that this would buy us some time. One thing led to another and to keep this post PG-13, we were indisposed when the doorbell rang. I then got to listen to lady friend and X argue about the punishment while sitting in the master bedroom in the dark, hoping not to be discovered by said x-husband. Pretty Funny.

My flight down to Mexico City was uneventful except for the fact that my mother brought the dog on the airplane as a service dog aka seeing eye, complete with a home made leather harness. The dog layed down at our feet taking up every inch of foot room infront of myself and my mother. Because of this dog in the airport I was forced to become the center of attention at the ariport. I had to field questions from all sorts of people about what the dog was for ( and I could not say that we were just swindling the system). We were even stopped in Mexico's airport so a senior could take a photo of the dog. We spent our first day (today) going over the dog show site (yes we were here for a dog show) and then we did some sightseeing. We went to the palacio nacional which houses many of Diego Rivera's epic murals. I would be including pictures, but my mother neglected to bring the camera cord home from work, so I am unable to upload pics. Any way I guess that is all for now Adios y buenos Noche!