Fiesta Americana - Reforma Mexico City

... young population.
Met Elias at the hostel (Hi !) who was very kind and showed me around. Too bad I was too tired to really enjoy the nightclubs...

Next day, my plane for Bogota took off at 3:50pm. I accidentally broke a piece inside the -cheap-plane, and was kindly asked to not destroy it during the flight ^^.

... so when Leon Trotsky was exiled from Russia they openly welcomed him into their home. Kahlo and Trotsky even engaged in a brief affair, before the latter moved a few blocks away after an argument with Riviera. Trotsky's home is also open to the public, with the study preserved exactly as it was when he was murdered there by one of Stalin's agents armed with an icepick. A number of large bullet holes are also clearly visible from a previous assassination ...

... br> The bus dropped us at the terminal and I went onto the subway (yes they have a subway!) to get into town. I was expecting nasty things from the subway, but it was fine, almost as comfortable as the London system, only slightly less frequent and a fraction of the cost. It was only 20c per ride. It seemed like peak hour lasted all day and all night on the Mexico City Subway.
I navigated my way down three underground systems got out of my final station ...

... dealing with Americans and being a typical tourist. We got to see some of the neighbourhoods of the city alot better. Condesa and Zona Rosa neighbourhoods would not be out of place in Europe with cafes, restuarants, boutique shops and massive homes. Brendan and I both agreed that this was a typical tourist thing to do, and that if we really wanted to have played it safe on the trip, we could have stayed in a neighbourhood like that and seen nothing of real daily life in ...

... REALLY good!! Thank god! We went to Six Flags. The first ride we went on seemed really lame. Then all of a sudden we were drenched!! There must have been signs in Spanish to warn us but we couldn't read them. Reen went on the superman rollercoaster and closed her eyes the whole time yelling "that's enough!!! That's enough!!" by the next ride reen was a rollercoaster fan! That's right, u heard correctly, Karrina now loves rollercoasters. We also saw ...

It was the first day of the New Year and we hoped it would be our last in Mexico. We had enjoyed our 5 days in Mexico but we hoped to get seats on the evening flight back to LA. In the morning I finished my journal entry for the previous day and edited my photos, ultimately happy with the shots I got of the monarch butterflies. I went to the business center downstairs to go online and post another entry on my travel blog, just in case anyone wanted the latest ...

... seemed like a pretty OK plan. Oh it's 13.28 pesos to the $1 (!!!)

We get downtown and everything is blocked off for DOTD festivities in the zocalo, so after circling here and there on foot (the cab driver had kicked us out saying "oh just walk there, blah blah blah, it's close, no problemo- I hate cabs btw) we do eventually get to the hostel which is at a great location- just unfortunately is staffed with the biggest jerks who are perpertually ...

Becs 25/5: With our holiday half over we arrived safely to Mexico City at about 10pm and were picked up at the airport by Aaron, the owner of our hostal. Very friendly guy but he was disappointed to here that we weren´t going to be seeing any of Mexico City as we had a 9:30am bus the next morning to Oaxaca, but we promised we would come ...

... Mexico City is great, it's full of character and life and i'm loving the feeling of being somewhere a bit rougher. The hostel is just down from the main town square and theres always something going on. 2 nights ago i walked through the square and there were random people dancing to a drummer, i think it might have been some religious thing but basically there was one drummer in the middle and everyone did a little ...

... at times - and yes she is sat next to me right now!). Mexico City for me was: big, loud, busy, smoggy, exciting! The cake shop made me think of the guys at work and what a field-day they would have had there. Sorry guys, I didn't buy you any cakes - but they were very good!!! Teotihuacán was really good - the old ruins are one of the reasons I wanted to tour through Central and South America. I think we are both feeling better about Mexico and our South American adventure now.