Mexico Shmexico...

hey yall...excuse the punctuation...the keyboards are different down here and im lazy to learn, so you get no caps or apostrophies, etc. deal with it. well, mexico is simply amazing...the culture is so rich, the people so friendly, so much to see and eat. we could spend years grubbing on all the local specialties...so far we havent gotten sick...fingers crossed, no? man, where to begin...i only have a half hour of time, so lets get the biggies. flew into guadalajara, a beautiful colonial town that we loved simply because it was on the ground (we almost died on the plane trip down due to SERIOUS turbulance...think jumping off of a 37.6 story building and the feeling your groin gets and youll have an idea)...we only stayed a night because of prior plans to be in morelia to the east in the mountains...over a mile elevation...we stayed out in a family oriented neighborhood away from the richie downtown, with our dear friends annie and luis at luis' mother's house. we had such a relaxing time despite there being dozens of people in the house at any given time due to family from out of town coming to morelia for the wedding of luis´ sister. before and after the wedding we mostly hung out drinking beer, smoking cuban cigars, eating, drinking beer, chatting with their family, drinking beer, eating, walking around town, eating, and maybe drinking a little beer. we also attended a futbol game between morelia and monterrey...unfortunately morelia lost by a goal...pinche monterrey. the main reason we were in morelia though was to attend the wedding of Rosi and Pedro...very catholic style ceremony/mass, but man do they know how to party afterwards...several hundred people in a large hall...no ventilation, but we had tequila, so who gives a shit...lots and lots of dancing...i was honored to be included in many of the traditional dances that centered around the bride and groom...the bull dance was a highlight...i was placed in this fifty pound cage covered in black cloth with ribbons and a bullhead attached...to some crazy ass music, i spun, swerved, jumped, lunged, and im sure some tae bo was involved in there somewhere...all the while fifty people were smashing me in the head (bull head) with balloons and i was dangerously close to fainting from the heat...my huero (whitie) ass isn{t used to this kind of heat...the best part was the buckets of sweat that squirted on my face whenever i jumped and the cage came smashing down on my head. wow, im getting carried away...anyway, it was some of the most fun ive had in years. thanks annie, luis and vanessa! hope the little one is feeling better. next we headed off to el D.F. or mexico city or Mexico as everyone down here simply calls it. at first we were scared shitless...i almost stabbed a little boy selling chiclets because i thought he was going to mug me and leave me naked in the alley, but after about two hours we just sort of fell in love with this place...its just like new york, only there are about 10 million more people here than that great city of ours. we stayed in this amazing hotel for 23 bucks a night, expensive down here, in huge rooms with great views of the city and an ever helpful staff. we spent the last five days checking out an immense square footage of museums, monuments, galleries, cathedrals, plazas, streets, blah, blah, blah....basically we immersed ourselves in the breath of life that is mexico...they cherish life because they embrace death...its more of a part of life here, so why the hell don{t you live it to the fullest. fun is factored by 10 here, with little care for personal safety, space, hygiene, etc. it made us nervous at first but we're getting over that quickly...we kinda had to because we got lost in the biggest city park in the world for about two hours...talk about a butt pucker...luckily we're still here, and ready to continue on with things. Lot of political activity going on down here...the governor of mexico city, andres manuel lopes obrador, a left leaning frontrunner for next years presidential elections, was recently stripped of his political immunity by the current president vincente fox and his PAN party, over the building of an access road to a hospital across disputed lands...anyway everyone is protesting because its an obvious attempt by the president to keep the people{s candidate out of the election. there has been a fairly huge military presence on the streets, the government buildings have all been closed to the public, senators from obrador{s party (PRD) have been going on a hunger strike in front of the presidential residence, and therefore most of the park surrounding the residence has been closed...the military officers who told us the park was closed, said it was due to scheduled maintenance...right. today we went to teotihuacan, the location of the oldest civilization in mexico, and also the residence of the two largest pyramids in the country...the second and third largest in the world, only beaten by cheops in egypt for heigth. there was such a tranquil silence and spirituality flowing through these ruins despite being covered with asswhip tourists complaining of the stairs, heat, dust, whine whine whine...go back to the u.s.a. and never ever wear your gucci hand bag to my vacation spot ever again. well, theyre closing up here in a minute so i{ll close up as well. were on our way to veracruz next on the gulf coast for some much needed ocean time...hopefully well have access to internet out there, but who knows...the famous international internet cafes have been few and far between so far. we miss you all, and cant wait to visit with stories and pictures. stay in touch...that means write me or kes or both...more updates to come. hopefully we{ll have some good near death stories to chat about...just kidding mom(s). its safer down here than many parts of the united states we went through on the roadtrip. kesia says hugs and kisses, but i prefer stench and grease. much love to all you nuggets out there. stay up...OLD and KES