Guanajuato

Last Saturday we went to Guanajuato, a colonial town that is supposedly about two hours away. We left school at seven am, yeah, off to a bad start already. No, the day wasn't really that bad, it was just long. This is what my day looked like:

6:02-- wake up

6:20 -- eat breakfast

6:35 -- leave house

6:40 -- wait on the corner for a combi

6:50 -- call Brenda to share a taxi as there are no Roja 3 combis in sight

6:55 -- get in taxi

7:05 -- arrive at school

7:15 -- leave school; drive for awhile; watch the sun rise

9:00 -- make a pit stop at a convenience store that has no bathrooms; walk to find bathrooms; use bathrooms; buy a snack 

9:45 -- get back in van and drive for awhile

10:30 -- stop to see a view of a city and the house of Cantinflas (a Mexican comedian/filmmaker comparable to Charlie Chaplin)

11:00 -- arrive at San Miguel to see the church

12:00 -- see some other church

12:30 -- stop in Dolores to see another church and try a lot of weird flavors of ice cream: avocado, mole (a cacao sauce, not the animal), shrimp, rose petal, beer, angel breath, weird black fruit, guayaba 

1:15 -- another church with a lot of steps

2:00 -- graveyard with a famous Mexican singers grave, which was huge and colorful and would have been cool if it hadn't been the 8th stop for the day

2:45 -- arrive in Guanjuato. Go to the legends of Guanajuato museum with moving dolls and teddy bears in dark hallways. yeah. 

3:45 -- go to Diego Rivera's childhood home and see some of his artwork

4:30 -- arrive at the hotel.

5:00 -- sleeeep

6:00 -- dinner in the centro

9:00 -- follow singing, instrument-playing, colonial-dressed men around town for a tour -- p.s. it was Valentine's day. Couple parade plus 10 gringos. 

10:30 -- walk back to the hotel and go to bed

The next day was way more relaxed. We went to an agriculture museum and then to the top of the mountain. Guanajuato is a really pretty city. I love the colors of the houses, and the down-town area is all for walking. There are not street lights in the town to keep it colonial looking. It is very colonial looking, at least I imagine it is.