Santiago Hotel Puebla

... I'll have to come back some day :)

What a wonderful way to spend the final day in Puebla! Tomorrow we head to Mexico City, the final city on our Mexican tour. We are stopping at the President's estate on the way! We received an official invitation to visit. What an honor!

Better get some beauty sleep before meeting the President of Mexico!

Cross your fingers that I will have internet tomorrow so that these blogs can continue :)

Much love,
Megan

... children and were part of the "village" that is working to mold them into wonderful people.

After the last 2 groups, we rode back to our facility for education time and then went back to our host family's home for the night.

Friday was our performance day. My first performance in Mexico! I was so excited! We had a pretty good crowd and I was able to play 4 songs on the piano as I worked myself back into performing with the cast. They whole ...

... Also, track what you do and see if you notice any changes. For example, if you focus on energy reduction, check your energy bill next time it comes around. You may be surprised!

Energy:
Use a reusable shopping bag when shopping. These are available at places such as Target and JoAnn Fabrics. Matt's mom bought me a JoAnn Fabrics' bag that I used when I was home and I have an Aspen, Colorado bag that I use while traveling.

Shut off lights when you lave the room. Also ...

... in snow from a storm. Fascinating. This hut was much smaller than Orizaba's hut. We crossed our fingers for better weather in the morning, and sure enough, we woke up at 3:00 a.m. to little wind and more stars than you can imagine. We only had around 1,800 feet to make today, but it would end up being long and grueling. After some sketchy rock scrambling (without ropes!), we arrived at Izta's first summit ...

Accommodation

Whilst here I stayed at Hotel Reforma 2000, 4 Poniente No. 916, on the corner of 11 Norte, Tel. 01 (222) 242 3363, Web: www.hotelreforma2000.com . Their current rates were 200, 250 peso for 1 or 2 persons and 350 + 400 peso for 2, 3 or 4 persons in a room with 2 double beds. This good value budget hotel is set over 3 floors around a pleasant colonial style courtyard. The carpeted rooms with en-suite and cable ...

... go by. It is a really pretty place especially when the sun comes out. It was miserable and cold yesterday but the sun has come out today and it is much more pleasant but I have had to dig out my trousers from the bottom of my bag. There is a big cathedral here which I think is the only sight we have seen......

... a few times when i wasn't exactly sure where i was. I did lose him once when i went into the butterfly house, it was around a corner an up a small winding path. but when i came back out it wasn't long before he was back hot on my tail. I confirmed my suspision that he was following me when i started buying things from vendors in tents. he got closer to me then...he never said anything to me but he looked to make sure i understood how much to pay and that ...

... i just smile wide eyed back...opps!!? and we both laugh. I am getting there!! So we got the tape and food and headed back, the duct tape worked (for the most part...it fell every so often but we just stuck it back up...it became comical after a while) and the family arrived. There was a father, mother, and 2 daughters. We filmed around 300 signs, some of which i understood and others i did not, some of the obvious ones helped me with spanish vocabulary. The ...

... we went down to the bar for a bev. Suddenly after about 10 mins the bartender jumped on the bar and started pouring tequila down everyone's throat. When he came to me I didn't know what to do as I am not a big fan of the stuff but I though ´what the hell´ and opened my mouth (see picture!) After a while we were tempted to go out to a bar nearby. When we got there it didn't seem anything special but we ended up having a good time dancing with loads of people from our hostel The next ...

... and the government house where there’s a Christmas tree and many funny-shaped piñatas inside. There was a museum of things picked up on the street or were donated. You found bills, condoms, driver licenses, even syringes inside. Pollo was worried that he wasn’t a good tour guide as both my mom and Janet were ...