So, at the beginning of October.... Do I start every one of my posts with so?? Wow... I never professed to be an amazing author. I guess that proves it! Anyways, at the beginning of October, I went to DF (Mexico City) for the weekend with my roommate. It was quite excellent!
We jumped on a bus at midnight and had quite an uncomfortable sleep for the next 7 hours. Oh, side note, these buses TOTALLY trump Greyhound buses. Seriously. This is like sitting in first class on a plane, but with more room! Still isn’t quite a bed though. I should have taken the bus that comes with a bed. Someone should invent that. Anyways, rode the bus. Got to DF. Rode the subway. Dude! This city has a subway system quite similar to New York City. It was AWESOME! I love NYC and I love anything that reminds me of NYC. Quite great. And sooooo cheap! It costs 3 pesos to ride which is like 25 cents ish. So great!
We took the subway to the temple and spent most of the day there. I LOVE the temple in DF. It is one of the most beautiful ones I have seen. It has this Aztec feeling to it. My roommate went and did a session because she is endowed while I tried to get in to do baptisms. I failed. 3 stakes in a row failed to show up. The little old men at the door were so kind to me though. We sat and talked for quite awhile and laughed and it was great. At the end I went to use the washroom and ended up walking through the baptismal area. It literally took my breath away. It is the most beautiful baptismal font I have seen in the temples I have been to. I so wish I could have done baptisms. It’s all good though. I got to spend a bunch of time in the visitor’s center. It is quite similar to Salt Lake City’s visitor’s center, just on a smaller scale. I spent a bunch of time and money in the bookstore too. I love the church bookstore! Especially when it is Mexico cheap! Ps... living in Mexico is not as cheap as you would expect.
After this, we went to Moni’s aunt’s house to drop off our stuff. We spent the evening out on the town. We went down to Centro Historico and saw all of the crazy decorations they had up for the Bicentennial, and all of the old architecture, and the Cathedral all lit up against the night sky. And then we went out dancing with some of Moni’s friends. I really dislike getting stuck in these situations. On the one hand, it is too dangerous for me to get in a taxi and go home and I could direct a taxi to Moni’s aunt’s place if I wanted to. On the other hand, I really hate going into these clubs and these bars. I thought it would be different if I were living with a member, but nope. Members down here have different standards than in Canada.
Day 2 was spent seeing the sights. We went and walked through the cathedral. I love seeing other people’s churches. It creeped Moni out but I find it fascinating to see these grand cathedrals with gold everywhere and statues and high ceilings and arches and domes. I still like our temples more, but it is interesting. After that we spent a couple hours in some Aztec ruins. Before Spain conquered Mexico, there was this huge Aztec village. After the Spanish came they literally built their Cathedral practically on top of the Aztec town. So, there is this underground Aztec museum that is right next to the Cathedral which was placed as what you could call a symbol of the Spanish dominance. Super interesting. There was also this museum with all of these different artefacts that have been recovered. After we spent tons of time there we went through the craziest market I have been in! It was sooo ridiculous and busy and filled with people.... EVERYWHERE!
That night we went to Moni’s friend’s wedding. It was in a castle. Like, literally, it was in a castle. It was quite an adventure. There was a fully catered meal and a dance and awesome wedding type games. There was this one thing they did where first all of the girls did this congo line. The bride and groom stood on chairs and made a London-Bridge-Is-Falling-Down type bridge and had two people holding onto each of them. The whole point of the congo line was to try and knock them off the chairs as you went under this bridge. The girls were dainty in their Mexican high heels and such, but when it was the guys turn, oh man was it hilarious! It was quite an excellent night.
The next day was conference in the morning and then I jumped on a bus and came home! Overall, Mexico City is a HUGE city that is hip-happening and has this feeling of energy. It has a REAL big city feel and I loved it! I don’t think I could ever live there. It is too big and wayyyyy too polluted for me. But it is a must see if you are down in Mexico. And that’s all I have to say on that.
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