Finally, our own city.... Queretaro!!!

We figured it was probably time to show you some pictures

of the city we actually live in.

Here we are in downtown Queretaro.

Awesome church in Queretaro

Billy in front of the awesome church.

Pious Billy inside the awesome church.

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Me eating ice cream (chocolate with a little chile flavor =) in downtown Queretaro.

Rosa and Fernando: The owners of our language school.

Me in our first "home". The mattress-on-the-floor place. This was our fancy dining room =)

For Jeremy....

Just for you, bud!

More Rewind: Mexico City

Billy knocking on the slightly large door inside the cathedral

Inside the cathedral downtown

Street art

More sculptures in the street downtown

Dancers in the main square

Main cathedral in the city's zocalo (main square). Nice, eh? Unfortunately, however, it was built right on top of an ancient pyramid during the Spanish conquest.

Rewind: Semana Santa Procession of Silence

Since we have the time, I figured we should post some pictures of the Semana Santa procession (holy parade) we watched while in Oaxaca on vacation. Unfortunately I ruined 2 CDs of photos, one of which had many more pics of the Semana Santa stuff, but at least most of them were still saved on our memory card. Here are the survivors.

These are for you, Thurop....

No questions, please.

Tepotzlan

Cool tree at the base of the hike to the pyramid

Congratulatory kiss for not dying on the way up the mountain

Notice the footwear -- yes, those would be flip-flops. Perfect for hiking steep terrain.

Billy pyramid climbing....?

Tepotzlan is a super cute little town about 45 min away from Cuernavaca by bus. It houses a mystic pyramid that is accessible only by hiking a steep mountain. By the time we were done my thigh muscles were shaking from near muscle-failure, but it was worth it!

Taxco

School children parading through the city for 5 de Mayo

El Cristo looks over the city

Opposite of wide = the streets of Taxco. They are pretty, though, eh?

The aeriel view we were looking for

Coke break on our walk up the steep streets in search of an aerial view of the city

The city´s main cathedral

Taxco is an awesome city made of cobblestone streets that are ridiculously narrow and steep. There are also about 350,000 silver shops to choose from. We took advantage of the relatively cheap prices for the high-quality silver. I got a thick silver chain with two sets of pendants and matching earrings, a bracelet, and a ring. Oh yeah, and one other pair of earrings. Gotta love Mexico... =)

Birthday Vacation...

So, having been here for almost 2 months, we figured it was time for vacation #2. It was a good one too-- we made it back to Cuernavaca where I did my study abroad 10 years ago, as well as to Tepotzlan and Taxco. Check out our pics...starting with Cuernavaca. The top two are the Cathedral in the city, followed by a pic of the awesome Robert Brady museum -- see www.bradymuseum.org . The final two are of Jardin Borda (we took the pic from a rowboat we rented and paddled around the lake), and ruins that are right smack in the middle of a residental part of the city.