oaxaca, oaxaca

went to oaxaca for the weekend, leaving friday morning.
(it worked out perfectly--i didn't even have time to be sad about my mom leaving. she left for her flight, i went to class and did a hasty presentation over some short fiction, gym, talking to hudson for the first time in a week and wasting my evening with such, and the catching a bus early friday morning.)
it was a four hour trip, but my butt made it through.
oaxaca is super cute. the zocalo is small and pretty simple, but we went to the cultural center attached the huge cathedral of santo domingo and saw some cool artifacts from monte alban.

we stayed in a really awesome hostel in which we were the only americans, i believe. other mexicans and lots of europeans. it was crazy hot at night, but we had free omelets in the morning, so i'm not complaining.
there was some delicious food, but we were plagued by bees and the threat of cockroaches circling our dining area. on the walk home at one point, we were surprised by a scorpion. it was an interesting town for bugs.
the people were so nice and for the first time, i was besieged by enough small kids selling things in the zocalo that i bought something. three scarves for fifty pesos. the boy seemed happy, so therefore so am i. that gets really difficult for me to ignore sometimes.
but there was some cool stuff to do, and also a lot of time for relaxing in the shade in the remarkable heat. a very laid back weekend with adrianna, glory and patrick.