Day 2 - Mexico City, Teotihuacan – June 9th

We started out our morning with breakfast in the hotel. It was really good, a little of something for everyone. There was some pork in a red sauce that was so yummy! Mike loved it! We then left to go to the Anthropology museum. It is one of the best museums I have been to. They have so many artifacts of all the cultures in Central America from 10,000 B.C. on. It was a great start to our trip—to learn all about the Olmecs and the Maya and their traditions and dress and how they lived. We spent about 2 hours there, and then drive an hour to Teotihuacan; the huge temple complex of the Sun and the Moon. We first saw the temple of Quetzalcoatal (Christ) and the 12 surrounding altars. His temple was decorated with the feathered serpent, which represents Christ. The bus then took us to the other side of the park, where the temple to the moon was and we climbed that pyramid. We then walked down the sacred way—a street lined with altars—to the temple of the sun. Several from our group climbed to the top of that huge pyramid. Mike and I spent about 45 minutes just sitting on the top of the pyramid, looking over the city surrounding us. It was very nice. We still had about an hour before we were due back to our buses, so we wandered further down the sacred way and explored the altars and ruins. We had a great time at Teotihuacan. While there, I bought a couple sliver bracelets and silver earrings. Mike bought a really nice woven blanket of the Aztec Calendar and several Mayan symbols and figures. Our buses brought us back to the hotel around 6:00 p.m. We had dinner at the hotel restaurant tonight. I had chicken tacos and Mike had shrimp fettuccine. They were good. We then got on our swim suits and headed up to the roof and swam in the pool. It wasn’t a very nice pool, but it was on the roof of a 12 story building, so the location made it fun.