Gilt Menagerie

So far, we have seen:

A political protest where the people were saluting a building and shouting “Heil Ebrard” while holding signs like this one. Apparantly the Mexico City Mayor Marcel Ebrard is not loved by all of his subjects.

Also an Aztec dance, complete with delicious smelling cedar smoke and tiny dancers. Isn´t he cute? I also have a sweet video of the dance, but the computers at the hostel are angry at me. I am making them work too hard and they are retaliating by giving me error messages in spanish faster than I can click “Acceptar”.

In other news, Mexico City is very loud. I haven´t been here long enough to get any other impressions. We are going to try and see some Aztec ruins tomorrow. Also possibly some art musuems. I will probably let you know how that went sometime next week, as fighting with an angry computer is not my idea of vacation.

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Hello!

No, I have not disappeared into the wilds yet. We have been staying with our brother & sister in law, taking care of things that somehow still have not gotten done. BUT. Tomorrow we leave for Victoria, where we will depart Sunday evening for the 30 hour bus ride to DF, or as the gringos say, Mexico City!

Stay posted for updates from the Festival of Witches/Noches de Brujas, taking place the first week of March up in the ancient volcanic crater that is now Lake Catemaco. I will see if I can document some of the magical shit that will be going down.

Here is one of my outfits that I will be wearing. I have decided that I will singlehandedly make hot pink the official color of Mexico.

This bag has tiny mirrors sewn into it! So cool!

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I have been in a complete tizzy for the last couple of weeks. Packing up our apartment, finding replacement insurance, pricing backpacker tents, getting immunized (ouch!), trying to figure out how I will survive on 3 pairs of shoes (!!), where are we going for Carnival and where will we stay, all of the little things like “what about our mail?” and “where will we park our cars?”, omg where is my 1099 so I can file taxes, AND STILL WORKING AT MY JOB have me in a strange mental state.

It’s a strange mix of excitement, stress, apprehension and nervousness…not only produced by the thought of the trip itself of course, but at not having either a home, a car (with us anyway), or a job for an undefined length of time.

I am constantly fluctuating between all of these different emotions, and that is stressing me out even more! I’m on a strict prescription of at least one glass of wine a night by my acting physician husband.

I’m wigging out ya’ll!!

On another note:

I am not one to tell other people that they should do something (ignores shouting chorus saying that’s bullshit), but after reading all of the little pamphlets in the lobby depicting what meningitis and hepatitis and all of the other diseases could do to you, I’m going to encourage you (yes, you adults) to get some immunizations.  In Texas, the state offers almost any immunization you could need for only $20.00 a shot. And if you have insurance, it’s possible it may cover some of them too.

I leave you with a jolly artist’s interpretation of ye olde cow pock:

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