Continuation of Mexico City trip... On our third and last day, we woke up bright and early to get out and see what we could before our flights left that afternoon.
Our first stop was the anthropological museum. The roads to the museum were closed due to a marathon in process, so the taxi driver dropped us off as close as he could which was still about a 1/2 mile away. But it was worth it, because we got to walk through a beautiful park and got to see the runners/walkers for the marathon and 10 k going on. According to our taxi driver, they have a marathon every Sunday in the city.
A building under construction on our walk to the museum.
The museum was huge and pretty dang awesome! We learned a lot about the history of Mexico.
(Can I remember it now? Not so much. But it was fascinating at the time;)
The Mayan calendar.
After the museum, we walked to the closest open road and found a taxi which took us to Zocalo, which is in the city center! I really liked Zocalo.
Inside the church pictured above.
Isn't it beautiful?!
Nate took some pictures of me here at Zocalo, but I do not have those pictures, so we're going to have to deal with my self-portraits. :)
Nate has more pictures from Zocalo but I've had a hard time acquiring them from him.
After we finished walking around Zocalo, we made our way to the Monument of the Revolution. (I was glad for the map I bought before we got to Mexico that showed us that Zocalo and the Monument of the Revolution were within walking distance, otherwise we would have taken a taxi for a not very long ride.)
On our way to the Monument we walked past the Palacio de Bellas Artes. We didn't go inside, but the outside was pretty cool!
This is the only picture I got of Nate and I together the whole trip. He wouldn't let me take self-portraits of both of us and we never asked anyone to take one of us together. So I caught him unawares and took this one, hence the expression on his face.
We also saw this work of art along the way to the Monument of the Revolution. I thought it was pretty interesting looking. I didn't know at the time what it was for, but I guess it has some meaning for the skyscraper behind it that we did not get a picture of.
I have one more post to do about Mexico City and then I will be done with these posts... finally.
1 comment:
So my boys avoiding the camera runs on the Crain side?
Also have you thought about suing the museum for displaying an inaccurate calendar that scared the world into thinking the world was ending?
Post a Comment