Oaxoaca y Hualtulco

 My first (and only go) at eating cricket omelet!


Las ruinas de monte Alban:

We are given a few weekends for vacation while I am here and since I got here right before a holiday, Cinco de Mayo, we had our first vacation right away. On a side note, I am very upset that Cinco de Mayo is no big thing here. I think Mother's Day had more action...There is a parade in Puebla, the city where the battle took place, but I didn't get a chance to go because we went on vaca. First we went to Oaxoaca (above) where we saw some pretty cool ruins. However, nothing in comparison to Tulum y Chichen Itza.

Then we went to Hualtulco and went to two different beaches. it was no easy adventure getting to Hualtulco. We had to go up and down a mountain where it was constant switch backs for about four hours. These switch backs were worse than the switch backs in the Grand Canyon. Not to mention every two minutes we went over at least two speed bumps. It was a horrible ride! One of my really good friend's threw up. Then when we were almost an hour from being out of the mountain, there was a huge accident and we couldn't pass. There has got to be hundreds and hundreds of accidents there all the time because they are constantly trying to pass each other on the tiniest two lane road. Anyway, we had to wait about another four hours just chilling in the darkness of the jungle until they took care of the accident. Our driver and I walked up to see the accident and it was a huge bus with this tiny tiny truck. They were completely t-boned. It looked pretty bad, but I don't think anyone was hurt. When we finally got to Hualtulco we still didn't have anywhere to stay and it was way late! We found this awesome guy who took us to some apartments that cost about $12 a night. They were legit with two rooms, bathroom, kitchen, and a swimming pool. We went shopping at an artisan market, but I didn't buy anything because of course I got lost and then spent my time searching for our apartment. haha. Don't worry mother, it wasn't too hard to find. Well, when it was time to go back we had to pass through those dreaded mountains again, but thank goodness this time there was no accident, so it only took us 4 slightly miserable hours to get out of the mountains. Although, it was definitely worth it! We had a blast!

La boca nada: where we boogie boarded and had an intense mud fight:

La entrega: where I enjoyed a beautiful pina colada and we snorkled!