Mexico City- Basilica of Our Lady Guadalupe

One day in early November, my brother Nate, called me and asked if I wanted to go to Mexico City with him... two weeks away.  I must admit I had to think about it for a couple of days, but then decided what the heck? Why not?

Away we flew, me from D.C. and Nate from California. We were there for 3 days, Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.

I got to Mexico City a couple of hours before Nate did and hung out at the airport until he got there and I will just say that I spent a lot more time in the airport both flying in and flying out than I ever wanted to. Although they do have quite a few shops and restaurants in the airport, there's only so much airport I can take after a while. (P.S. if you're ever meeting anyone in Mexico City flying in from different places make sure you know what terminal they're flying into.)

This was the view from our hotel room.  It's a pretty awesome view! On Friday night, we took it easy and stayed at the hotel and planned for the next day, read books, surfed the internet etc.

For Saturday, we had arranged for a tour guide to take us to the Basilica of Our Lady Guadalupe and to the  Pyramids of the Sun and Moon.  Our tour guide spoke English...kind of. (Let's just say I probably understood him about half the time.)

The picture above is the new basilica. 

This is the old basilica. They rebuilt the basilica because, although you may not be able to tell in the picture, the building is leaning to the right.

Some of the doors to the new basilica. I thought they were pretty cool!

We got to listen to a choir performing in the church while we were there. We only stayed for a couple of minutes, but it was pretty awesome!

Some cool windows in the basilica!

There was a whole complex of churches to walk around. We didn't have a ton of time, but we did get to see all of the churches at least from the outside and some the inside too.

This is the view of the old and new basilica from a hill we climbed to visit a couple of the churches.

One of the churches on the hill. 

Of course I have a self-portrait.

A cool clock tower in the complex.

I liked the basilica complex. It was pretty awesome!

Pyramids of the Sun and Moon post coming up next...