mi madre

mom came to visit for a week, starting last thursday.

we stayed downtown, in the hotel royaaalty. the hotel was so nice, and we had a beautiful view of the centro and the cathedral.

things we did:
-cholula, the church, the pyramid and lunch at "la esquina mas famosa en cholula"
-dinner at amalfi's with robin and andrea. the waiters flirted like crazy with everybody at the table. good work, mom.
-so many churches downtown, including the beautiful church of the rosary, a gold-plated annex that was absolutely gorgeous.
-the turibus! seeing the battlefield of cinco de mayo and many beautiful viewpoints.
-retouring the cathedral.
-museums upon muesums. all with beautiful art and amazing architecture.
-iron man 2. amazing. there were guys dressed as iron man and war machine waiting ourside the theatre selling masks after it ended. plus, we got to see it a week earlier. and eat caramel corn and self-serve gummy bears!
-lunch with my host family. they were so sweet and gave my mom a gift of chocolate from my host mom's hometown. and we ate some delicious home-cooked posole.
-lucha libre. this time with scary women that looked all too familiar, and midgets that were thrown through the air as weapons. i think that the fights are one of my favorite things here. and i'm almost tempted to go every week. mom had a blast. and we didn't even get teased.
-went to see cop out. the movie was just as funny, but also uncomfortable racist in it's depiction of mexican druglords on the second viewing. still, tracy morgan, caramel corn and gummy bears. plus, my mom.
-skipped school and went to the cinco de mayo parade. so amazing. it was mostly military and schools and bands. the military was amazing though, they come out in full force and color. people kept throwin confetti, so the guys on the sides were both incredibly serious and rainbow colored. i was so happy to be there to witness it.


(that poor guy's head made a cameo in all of my photos....)
-so much good food. and also some food that made us sick. but, i guess it's worth it at the end of the day...
-lots and lots of shopping and compensatory gift purchasing for solomon and grace. mom and i were both so sad that they couldn't come to visit as well. we thought and talked about them all week. sometime soon, we'll all go somewhere together.

it was just a really wonderful week and i felt so lucky that i had the gift of hanging out with my mom for a week in my temporary home. everything we visited and saw was a thousand times more fun and beautiful and interesting while she was with me. and i think my spanish was a little better, too.

(thanks, mom.)