Mision De Los Angeles Oaxaca

... booing and cheering (and of course I was too!), playing drums and whistles, and they even came close to getting in a fist-fight over the match.  The wrestlers were quite impressive with their gymnastics ability even if they weren’t in the best of shape!  The best ones had characters… like the gay wrestler with the pink, flowered spandex suit; the midget; the evil guy with the red Mohawk; and the good, machismo man called the Hurricane.  They even did ...

... was the Mescal factory. Mescal is quite like Tequila... we saw the process from the freshly harvested Agave root, through the process of cooking, drying (smelly!), fermenting and filtering... all in the back yard of this tiny little Mescal shop. We then sampled EVERY ONE of their Mescal varieties (at least 10 kinds... I lost count) and promptly bought a cappuchino mescal bottle for later (if they´d taken us here BEFORE the carpet/tapestry ...

... ran out and into the other one, cleverly labelled Monguys... hahaha... funny one Mongo.   I then checked out a series of super sweet churches that have been around forever. Combine that with a lot of walking around, and some resting in the shade of the parks, and you pretty much have my day. This morning, I went to the school I'll be spending a lot ...

... now grown especailly for the purpose, it has extended to corn husks and dried flowers too. There were thousands of police outside the crowd barriers which contained the audience crawling past the displays on all 4 sides of the plaza, plus hundreds more with riot shields, machine guns and bulletproof vests closing off nearby streets - naturally they had miraculously disappeared when they were actually needed for crowd control later. Some people had waited up to 3 hours in the ...

... The only thing that marred the day in the least was that Neal somehow must have left his broken tooth and aligner on the table when we ate a bowl of oatmeal at the airport. I felt so badly for him. He thought he had put it in the case . . . L.A. airport was just a short stop - probably about 30 minutes and no change of planes but we had to get off for an airplane security check for an international flight. The flight ...

... the tequila we know at home, but much more bitter and strong. We needed this tequila to give us strength to climb the mountain, we were told. Over lunch and after a few more tequilas, our crazy yet lovely driver called Oscar and some other tour guides decided to dedicate a song to me, which was quite fun if a little embarrassing. We then had our first taste of Boing (I think maybe to sober us up?), a fruit juice drink over here. Funny names they have for things like that ...

... roof and a small sign outside reading "Hay queso de chivo" (we have goat cheese). The two small Mayan ladies living/working there told me that they don't have a menu, you just eat what they cooked that day. Our options were "Chuleta de puerco con arroz, o caldo pescado" - Pork chop and rice or fish soup...we opted to share a pork chop dish (they only had one chop so we didn't have a choice), and although there were flies buzzing on, beside, and ...

... on a cowboy hat, chaps, boots, and spurs typical! So anyway I went and met up with the guys tonight, Avery and Nathan, we went to this bar Martin told us about where they have live music every night. Tonight it was jazz music and there was a saxophone and drums. It was a really cute place. Then we decided to go check out another bar I knew about but it was closed down. So then we went in search of another bar to go to ...

... flowers in the vases attached to the crypts. The variety of sites, and the elaborate nature of them definitely indicated the wealth that the family had when they buried their loved ones. The dichotomy from poor to rich was plainly evident and in some cases, made me feel sad for those who could not participate in this aspect of their culture as they might like to. I can only imagine what All Saints ...

... perfect competition". Seeing that Vendor #1 is doing well from selling a certain product, Vendor #2 stops selling their product and begins to sell Vendor #1's product. Through Vendors #3, 4, 5 etc., this trend continues, until there are a number of different groups of vendors that all sell the same range of products. In keeping with competition, prices need to get lower and lower to create an income for each vendor as prospective ...