After church the girls and I took our 2 our journey to Cuernavaca!
Randomly but fortunately Baylee has a great uncle who moved there after retirement and is running a bed & breakfast right smack-dab in the middle of the city. Can you say "hooked up"?!?!?
This is where we stayed...
As always, pictures could never do justice for this place, but it was much nicer than any hotel I've ever stayed in. Definitely not what we were all expecting being here in Mexico. Uncle Bill is a very "artsy" character, and so there were beautiful plants, flowers, trees eevverryyywhereee! Each guest room there had it's own theme to it. I stayed in the library room. Bookshelves filled with thousands of books. It was so beautifully decorated. I seriously want to hire this guy as an interior decorator.
Anyway, after getting settled in at the bed & breakfast, we went up to the zocalo for the Sunday festivities. There were many different stands selling things from jewelry to balloons to food. There were break dancers out and men on stilts. But my personal favorite was the clown.
Not because he was funny or entertaining (cause quite frankly, we weren't even watching him). But because of this....
My friends and I were just walking around the zocalo when suddenly we realize that this big group of people were staring at us. I mean, we get a lot of stares on the daily but, this was hundreds of people in a large group all staring. It only took a second until we realized that in the middle of this group of people there was a clown hollering "GUERAS!!!" We look over and he had a big cheezy grin on and was waving his arms trying to get our attention. Haha, of course all the white girls were just so oblivious to their surroundings and didn't realize they were being yelled at through a microphone! Anyway, the clown said a few things after getting our attention and then motioned for one of us to come over. The girls volunteered me to be the one to make a fool of myself. I went in the middle of this block of people and was in the spotlight for 2 minutes or so. He asked me a few simple questions in Spanish but mostly entertained the crowd with me just kind of going along with it. I got a a balloon wifi hat and a balloon dog out of it!... after being suckered into giving him a kiss on his cheek.. twice. You gotta do what you gotta do to fit in here, right?? Haha!
Afterwards, we hung around in the same spot for about an hour because we literally had a line of people wanting to get pictures with us. We were living the celebrity life. We got offers to go to dinner with people, to go get drinks, to go to parties with them. Everyone wanted to be around us. Haha, seriously. It was so funny.
That evening after several hours at the zocalo, we just took it easy and chilled at the luxury hotel. It was a fun, culture-packed day!
oh my gosh you guys are popular! how funny! And what a sweet testimony on your post below! How wonderful for you to be able to attend church down there. what a neat way to feel the difference in your life with and without attending church. those experiences just strengthen your desire and understanding of how important church attendance is on your life. I remember feeling that way when I lived away from home in AK and LakePowell. So glad you are making the effort to try to go to church. so neat heidi!
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