So to start where i left off or think i left off. At the top of Tepotzlan the view was beautiful. The mountains came straight out of the ground and up, like towering cliffs. Everything was so green and it was awesome. The gang and i spent about 30 min at the top, Court and i had a little meditation session on the top of the pyramid just like we had in Teotihuacan. It was really nice. Self reflection is always a good thing.
As i mentioned in my last post, that they only have bathrooms at the bottom of the mountain. So therefore on my way back down, I'm going along just fine and then boom. I really have to go to the bathroom. I didn't want to run ahead of the group and leave them behind but it i were to have waited any longer my bladder would have exploded! So i left. I started running down the rocky uneven path, flying past parents and their young children and weaving in between new borns who had the comfort of being able to go to the bathrooms in their pants. I however, absolutely could not afford to do the same! My legs shaking from the climb up and descent back down I felt like i was running Bloomsday, but up and down a mountain. I finally reach the bottom of the mountain but the bathrooms are further down the path past the tents and side tables that are full of trinkets and foods. I finally get to the bathroom and it costs 5 pesos, which is stupid but its a way to make a profit, i don't mind paying 50 cents and its helping that family out too, because it was in their house. Enough about my bathroom needs.
Moving on, i waited for Court, Scott, and Alexandra at the bottom and they were actually just behind me. We walked down the path through the tents and food stands and found a nice big table to sit at and have a bite to eat. We ordered i think 13 quesadillas in all. I ordered four, one with mushrooms, one with potatoes, one of chicken, and the other of just cheese. They were absolutely amazing. I swear there is nothing better in the world than tacos or Mexican food after doing some form of activity, whether its 5:30 in the morning after the clubs, or 2 in the afternoon after climbing a mountain, always great food. Cheap too! It only coasted me 5$ and that included the tip and a Coca. Ah Mexico, you and your cheap prices and tax free services, oh how will i miss you.
After we had a bite to eat we went to the market and shopped a little, i bought a few interesting things that i liked. We then went to an Ice Cream shop because it is said that the ice cream in Tepoztlan is some of the best. I love all the exotic flavors like cactus, and rose petal, its interesting. I think i had one that was cherry rose petal called "Reina de la Noche" It wasnt bad, pretty good actually. Courtney had a mint one and I'm still jealous, its sooooo gooood! Sitting in the brightly painted ice cream parlor and staring out into the cobblestone street i see a dog pass, and old women dress in traditional clothing pass and i think, how great it is just to be here. Chatter of the Euro Cup goes on between Alex and Scott and it sounds like Holland won the last game. Soon enough we leave and start headed for the bus station, its a little over a mile away and when we finally arrive we get our tickets and hop on, but wait. What? Scott went to the bathroom and that's the bus driver closing the door. We started pulling out of the station and we can see Scott, looking as confused as ever turning left and right looking for where the bus went. Courtney frantically bounces up and down in her seat waving at Scott who is looking the other way all while I'm just laughing at how sucky the situation is. Scott made it on the bus in the end, he ran through the station and stopped the bus in the street, but boy was it funny. The ride home was peaceful... bump, what was that a cat? Bump again.. not. The ride was horrible going back, way too bumpy. I literally was lifted out of my seat at least a foot on some of the bumps and pot holes they have here.
We finally got back to the house and what do you know, there is a Fiesta going on in honor of Jorge coming home for the week. There is at least 25 people eating drinking and laughing, living it up in the true Mexican manner. The food was so good, you could tell that Tere (my host mom) had brought out the good food for the party. It was some kind of salted steak strip or something and this really good salsa. Jorge invited his friends over and soon enough there was another 15 people, all crammed into the kitchen with whiskey and rum, and other mixed drinks of sorts. I stayed around for a while and i was the life of the party, everyone was enjoying how young i was and making jokes. I meet this girl named Diana who just happen to have came back from Holland. She had studied there for the past year and she decided to give me the contact information for her (ex) boyfriend whom she had to leave to come back to Mexico. She was a lot of fun and everyone here always thinks that I'm a lot older that i really am. I get 22 or 23 on a regular bases. Its nice.. now only if i look younger when I'm older, then ill have it made.
That whole week went by kind of fast and its been a while so i don't remember everything that happened. I do know that it was a hard week at school and that i was in the computer lab late one night and when i was walking home there was incredible lightning in the distance that i recorded video of. The lightning here is so cool, it goes off every 2 seconds and lights up the dark black sky to reveal hidden thunder heads and complex cloud forms. If you're looking to the east you can see the storm system passing over a different part of the city, but more towards the west you have the moon, brightly shinning high above the cloud cover. It was awesome. All week there was two newcomers staying in the house, Elma and Erma i think. They are the sisters of Tere and much older than she is. The food all week long was the best ever! All traditional and delicious. Chile Relleno, steak, tamales, mole, hot chocolate, sweet bread, everything! It was great! I love traditional Mexican food.
That Saturday, the 21st, my friends Taylor and Kaitlinn wanted to go to "El Rollo" which is a water park in Jojutlha about an hour south of Cuernavaca. On my way out of the house I'm walking through the jardin (garden) and Chocolate, the neighbors dog, runs over to me and jumps up on me. He is a cute little energetic bugger that always freaks out when he sees me. Hes a lot of fun.
I finally get to the meting place which is at the Cathedral en el Centro. I took a taxi because i thought i was going to be late, normally i would have walked, but when i got there everyone else still hadn't made it there yet. So, i went to the bank, took out a little money and got a coffee from the Italian Coffee Company. Its interesting to see the corporate battles down here. The two main competitors for coffee products is the Italian Coffee Company (cheaper than Starbucks but like 50 cents) and Starbucks. I got an "Moka Frioreo" which is an iced mocha which chocolate and Oreo chunks blended in. Really good!
We finally meet up around 12 and walk to the bus station down the street from the Cathedral. We get there at 12:05 and find out that the combined package for entrance fee to el Rollo and the bus ticket stops being sold after 12. Great, oh well, not a big deal.
Once in the park we start playing in the water right away. There was this surfing machine that looked awesome but wasn't open, however it was still running because the huge waves that it made flowed into the river to the left of it. They turn on the pumps and make the waves huge, sweeping every person standing on the edge fall over and be pulled under by the strong current! IT was the most fun thing ever besides for the fact that i went under for like 20 seconds could hardly get to the top for air and kept being pulled back under by the current and had people falling on top of me. I thought finally when i was about 45 feet from where i was standing 20 seconds before, that this would never have been allowed in the states, ever! Its too dangerous and Way Too FUN! Taylor told me that her bathing suit had happend to come off her during the whole ordeal and that probably could explain the huge crowd of Mexicans that were standing on the bridge looking down at all the people get swept by.
We decided to go on this ride called the pendulum next which literally looked like a huge half pipe but 5 times taller. What they do is put you in a three person tube, and push you off one of the towering 60 foot sides and watch you while laughing as you plunge down and up the other side. Kaitlinn was sitting behind me and screaming the whole time. I admit with was pretty scary the first drop because it was literally almost vertical. We tried a few other sides right next to it which weren't as much fun and then we decided that we were going to go buy some grub. We found a Domino's pizza and bought a half and half pepperoni and Hawaiian. The pizza here is amazing! So much better than in the states, but they don't put sauce on it is the only thing. They give you little packets of castup to put on it! Its actually really good! We sun tanned for about a hour after that and then we realized that the park closed at 6 not 8. So we ran to the other side of the park and found these really cool fake cliffs that you can jump off of. One was like 15 ft and the other was like 25. It was awesome, i went like five times. Then we raced over to these slides called the racers which are like those huge carnival slides but with water and a little taller. It was insane and so fast! I caught air right before there is this vertical drop and you get going so fast!
I'm trying to not be so detailed in my writing, i know its best if i am but it takes so long and the computer lab looks like its closing now. But oh i have so much more to type and say. Its been a long week and not to mention a very long day. I could go on explaining what happened to me today, but ill save it for the next post, I'm the only one left in the whole lab and the worker is running around shutting the windows and turning off all the computers around me. Just my luck, another blog unfinished. Its my last day here in Cuernavaca, i should go out and enjoy it, not sit here and type all day. My next post will be from Ecuador and when I'm 19! Woo Whooo. I'm going to go enjoy my birthday, i deserve too.
Awakening
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