btw, the reason that she is little is very conscious eating and regular exercising 6 days/week. she works hard.
e and i shared a very comfortable room with a private bathroom.
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| congested traffic every day. walkways above the cars for pedestrians, though they also just walked out in the road. To clean up pollution, the government has implemented numerous plans, including restrictions on cars such that those with certain license plates can't drive on certain days. |
pastes and empanadas, yes please. my favorite was the pudding/custard filled. we also tried savory potato and onions filling and also apple. yes, we had many empanadas. delish!
this was T's first opportunity to practice his Spanish. he was a good sport to go for it as a translator.
We went downtown to Chapultepec
Park, the city's most iconic public park, has history back to the Aztec
emperors who used the area as a retreat. It
houses the city's zoo, several ponds, seven museums including the National
Museum of Anthropology, and even an amusement park.
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Museo
Nacional de Antropología
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This
world-class museum stands in an extension of the Bosque de Chapultepec. Its
long, rectangular courtyard is surrounded on three sides by two-level display
halls. The 12 ground-floor salas (halls) are dedicated to pre-Hispanic Mexico,
while upper-level salas show how Mexico’s indigenous descendants live today,
with the contemporary cultures located directly above their ancestral
civilizations.
Mexico City is in a huge valley in a high plateaus, altitude 7,350 ft. there used to be a big lake in the valley. Now, the entire lake bed is paved over. a megalopolis of 20 million people. the city takes water from the aquifers more than can be replenished. as a result the spongy clay on which the city is built dries up and compresses, causing it to sink. the ground has fallen 33 feet in the past century. problems with flooding during the rainy season.
(wikipedia and a NYtimes article)
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| pretty hair! |
Reconstruction
of the entrance to the Hochob temple
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In a
clearing about 100m in front of the museum’s entrance, indigenous Totonac people
perform their spectacular voladores rite – ‘flying’ from a 20m-high pole –
every 30 minutes.
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Castillo
de Chapultepec.
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A visible reminder of Mexico’s bygone aristocracy, the ‘castle’ that stands
atop Chapultepec Hill was begun in 1785 but not completed until after
independence, when it became the national military academy. When Emperor
Maximilian and Empress Carlota arrived in 1864, they refurbished it as their
residence.
· Monumento
a los Niños Héroes
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Boy
Soldiers, were six Mexican teenage military cadets. These cadets died defending
Mexico at Mexico City's Chapultepec Castle (then serving as the Mexican Army's
military academy) from invading U.S. forces in the 13 September 1847 Battle of
Chapultepec, during the Mexican–American War.
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The current coat of arms of Mexico has been an
important symbol of Mexican politics and culture for centuries. The coat of
arms depicts a Mexican golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring
a rattlesnake. To the people of Tenochtitlan this would have strong religious
connotations, but to the Europeans, it would come to symbolize the triumph of
good over evil (with the snake sometimes representative of the serpent in the
Garden of Eden).
I love to see beautiful gardens. Grandpa says the workers are manicuring the grounds every time he comes. 
photographer extraordinaire E
E was thinking that he wanted a reed flute from our souvenir shopping. just in case he didn't get it on this trip, he wrote a letter to Santa about it.
the older cousins bought several new cubes from the vendors and whizzed through solving them on our drives.
I also love good sculptures and cities that display art. all along this major thoroughfare were decorated soccer balls. :) fun!
the bow tie begs pics.
Abuelita doing lunges. she sees results. i need to step up.
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