More Pictures From Mexico City

Some last pictures from Mexico city




on the streets of Mexico City

View from the top of our hostel looking over the city

The Latin America Tower

(It is 44 stories high and we went to the top at night)

Pictures from the top of the tower looking down on the city

Day 4...

...and our last day in Mexico City.

(sorry it has taken me soo long to finish posting pictures. I have ALOT to catch up on now. Between school and waiting for Peggy to send me her pictures I apologize for the hold up. I promise I'll finish posting these much quicker now!)((Thanks Peggy!))

We started the day by taking the metro (which is the busiest metros in the whole world!) to Chapultepec Park.

We saw the Monument to the Hero Children (Ninos Heroes)

Then we explored the Anthropological Museum

We met some school kids while we were there who were so fascinated with us white americans that they wanted to be friends with us.

After the museum we walked around the park. (Thanks to Peggy we got a little lost, but it was worth the adventure)


The we went to Benemerito, which is an LDS high school in Mexico City.

We had a little Q&A session with the students who were graduating soon about BYU-Idaho.
Then we had some free time to hang out with them so we went and played basketball

Gringos Vs. Mexicans

Then we saw a performance of Ballet Folklorico at the school. It was really cool and the dancers were really good.

More from Mexico City!

Day 3:

On day three in Mexico City we visited Tenochtitlan.



We went to a museum

Walked around the city and saw some beautiful cathedrals



Went to the top of the bell tower,which overlooked the city, to watch them ring the bells


Walked around the city some more and bought some delicious treats

Then we ended the night by going to the Mexico City temple to do baptisms for the dead.


These were some little girls we met in the visitor center. They were so adorable.

It was such an amazing experience!

Teotihuacan

Day 2:

Our second day in Mexico City we drove to Teotihuacan to visit some ancient pyramids.







We climbed the Pyramid of the Sun, which is the third largest pyramid in the world.

It got very tiring...

...but we finally made it to the top!



This is our whole group on the top of the pyramid of the sun.

We then walked across the ancient city of Teotihuacan and climbed to the top of the pyramid of the moon, which is smaller than the pyramid of the sun. Notice the platforms in front of the Pyramid which were used for sacraficial ceremonies.


We walked around the rest of the city and explored, climbed, warded off vendors and experienced "The Place Where Men Become Gods" (that is what Teotihuacan means).

Mexico!

Day 1:

After a very long night of traveling from Salt Lake to Atlanta we finally arrived in Mexico City.
Here we are at the airport more than excited to finally be there.

We took our luggage to our tour bus that would be taking us all around Mexico.

We took our seats and we were off!

Our first stop was the Basilica


We saw the famous cloak of Juan Diego's with the image of Guadalupe

We got sprinkled with some holy water.

Saw the original Basilica (which is sinking because Mexico City was built on water)

Climbed up a ton of stairs to two different chapels where people were worshipping and praying.

Went to Tlatelolc, or Plaza of three cultures (ancient, modern, and contemparary buildings)


Then we finally headed to our hostel to relax and enjoy the city.

And I'm Back...

Monday morning I was lying here...

...and before I knew it I was back in the states.
The chilly Rexburg weather is kinda refreashing, but I kinda miss Central America already. I have about another week and a half before I start classes again so I am sure I'll have plenty of time to blog all of my adventures, but as for now I am still trying to move in, catch up, and get back into the swing of normal life.
I'm leaving tomorow to head to Boise for memorial day weekend so I will have to resume this blog when I return.

Feliz dia de madres!

( i hope i said that right)
Right now I am in Chiapas Mexico, too far to see or even call my mom, so I wanted to wish my mother, and all the other mothers out there, a happy mothers day! Mom I just sent you a nice long email updating you on everything that is going on with me so hopefully you got that.
Tomorow is actually mothers day here in mexico but today in relief society we had a really awesome lesson on mothers. It was really touching, i loved it alot!
I promise, to anyone who is interested about what is going on with me, that as soon as i get back to the u.s. i will blog all about my trip and put up lots of pictures! I am having an amazing time and having some even more amazing experiences. Today is also the half way mark for the trip, so i only have two more weeks left.
So I promise lots of pictures in about two weeks!

Update!

So I realize that I have done a real good job at neglecting my little blog lately. Sorry! This past semester was really busy for me. But now that it is over I suppose I don't really have an excuse anymore. Well the semester ended last Friday, I spent the very short weekend in Boise, and now I am back in Rexburg doing the whole "school" thing again. Since me and my friends are going on a study abroad for the summer semester we had to come back to school last Monday to take classes for 2 weeks before we leave for Mexico. We don't really mind having to be back at school so soon since we will be traveling around Latin America for a whole month. We only have two more days left of classes to go and on Sunday we will be on a plane heading to Mexico City!
We are beyond excited!
I promise I will do a better job at updating, especially since I will have fun stuff to update about. So please don't loose hope in me...I will be back very soon!

(This is me on my birthday, I promised Makenzie I would put pictures up from it, but this is all I got right now, maybe I'll add more another day)

Happy March!

It is ten o'clock on a Monday morning, by far the worst day of the week, and even though I am dreading the fact that I still have 4 more classes ahead of me, I feel as though I have a lot to be grateful for.
I am grateful that I have roommates that I can count on to wake me up in the morning so I don't miss my classes.
I am so happy that I just got two perfect scores (and even a bonus point!) on my anatomy lab quizzes that I just finished taking.
I am beyond grateful for my dad who I know loves me because he does the nicest things in the world for me!
I am grateful for the bitterly cold days here in Rexburg, because it makes days like today seem so warm (even though it is only 30 degrees outside), and it makes me look forward to spending a month in some very warm regions of the world.