Exam...

Okay Tom, so what's this train? I expect you to be able to tell me it's whole history.

La muchadumbre es impresionante

So this was the demonstration we ran into yesterday. It's not totally visible in this picture but all these men were hopping and dancing and playing drums. They weren't indecent though because a big picture of the ex-governor of Veracruz was universally used as a loincloth.
Loafers with tall white socks, however, were the fashion coup of the day. Anyway, they were protesting the fact that he stole land and jailed people without cause while he was governor. Suerte! I told them. But it was generating a lot of interest and attention so good idea.
The other pictures are were we eat breakfast here. The first one is where we get tacos which are very delicious and actually the first ones we've had so far on the trip. They cost forty cents each and are full of Nopal cactus paddles and onion and pico de gallo and breakfast potatoes.
The second is where we go for juice. A liter of juice (my favorite is orange-papaya-strawberry-oatmeal) is a dollar eighty. And also tasty.

Fast Forward Traveling

Okay, are we all ready? Now that I'm at a place where pictures will actually load I will give you all quick tour through what we have been doing. This was beautiful hot sticky salty and kind of weird that we were there. I mean, look at the place. It was just this big tropical beach right by a jungle and tiki houses with thatched rooves all up the cliff. And all we did was swim and drink lemonade.
This is where we would drink lemonade. Oh, and eat guacamole. So anyway, that was crazy and definitely enjoyable (except the lack of cheap dinner options). We also spent a lot of time fixing mosquito netting. And sitting in front of fans.
Then we went to Puerto Escondidio which looked a lot more like this:

This was our pool. We stayed in a nice hotel. Well, once the girl there walked me to an atm so I could take out money because they wouldn't take the five hundred I had because it was missing a tiny piece of it's corner we stayed there. It was ridiculous. But then I liked her. We talked about the surf championship that had just ended and how someone from Hawaii won.
It was much more crowded, had huge blow up Corona bottles everywhere and music and families and tourists. My favorite part was all the families, well, the ladies and kids, who would just sit, legs out in front of them, in the surf. It's not a good beach for swimming so it makes sense but I just liked it. It was like they weren't even in the water at all.

THIS is the bird that we saw in both those places. I was proud because I actually guessed what it was without knowing anything about it. It's a frigate bird! Cool huh? They are HUGE and look like real big pterydactyls flying around with forked swallow tails. Except I never saw their necks blown up like this. I mostly saw females fishing which had white necks. Anyway.
Then we went to Acapulco which I know sounds all glam and fab and such but really was not that impressive. It seemed pretty run down to me. The zocalo, which is norally the heart of a town, looked like a circus sideshow with neon and christmas lights strung up everywhere and the beach was covered with fish bones and bottle caps and the water was full of plastic bags.
The definitely cool parts were this sign: Which basically says a lot about what I thought about Acapulco. Maybe used to be cool, but now run down and enveloped in WalMarts and BaskingRobbins. Also I loved our hotel. I was the greatest! The whole thing looked like my grandparent's house in Spain.
This was our key. Oh, there was also some great food.
And here was the decor. Anyway, then we left on the super fanciest bus in the world and came all the way back HERE, to Mexico City and are staying in a haunted hotel.

The Italian Job

Is to come here to the coast and open restaurants. Apparently. We got lucky and had a good meal on Thanksgiving in an Italian restaurant in San Agustinillo, it was cheesy and olivey and the guy really was italian. Apparently they are all attracted {to this area, Joel wishes me to add)(Italians, that is) because somebody made an Italian movie called Puerto Escondido that is set here! In Puerto Escondido! Oh, apparently we actually ate there the day after thanksgiving, according to Joel. Or the day before. He can't decide and really I can't spend my whole blog just trying to meet his constantly changing desires.
anyway
I was sad not to be at home on Thanksgiving. I mean, in a way. I was also happy to be at the beach because I got to boogie board and swim and see what I believe might have been frigate birds, but I also wanted to be home eating lots of food and being warm inside while it's cold outside and visiting. Next year I suppose. But lots of love to everybody.
Anyway now we are in the abovementioned Puerto Escondido and we have CABLE again FINALLY so I can watch the Simpsons. And also a pool and a ceiling fan so finally this vacation is starting to shape up. Although I also got burned for the first time today which is so typically vacation and which I had managed to avoid thus far. CONSTANT VIGILANCE as Moody would say is what is called for when dealing with the sun. I forgot.
Alright, much love to all as I said and more updates either from Acapulco or Coyoacàn in Mexico City (aka Mexico aka el D.F. aka Ciudad de Mexico).