i aM aLIvE!!!

Hi friends and Family!!! Currently I am in Puebla for the weekend and I will inform you of all my exciting adventures come Monday. But this blog post is way overdue and I thought that if anything I should at least post the pics! (your welcome dad)

Life is good! Kristine and I have been up to a lot this last week. Last weekend we visited Mexico City! Here we are at the left with a walking dead person on stilts! haha... Not funny, I know. Bear with me though....

We visited the Dolores Olmedo Museum and enjoyed taking pictures in the garden. I think that the guards were somewhat amused by us. They would look back at us and sneak and glance and then start giggling which in turn made me giggle. But if any of you know me well, you know that my giggles soon turn into roaring laughter that calls the attention of onlookers. I don't know what happened to me. I used to rarely laugh and now I am always being hushed. This evening I began to laugh in the lobby of the hotel and Ramiro, the school director left. I asked him if I embarrass him and he told me that my laughter does embarrass him a bit. I have no idea as to why I am sharing this because it is NOT something I am proud of. Anyhow.... here Kri and I are at the left. And abovet is me just sitting on a little bench staring off into space. =)

Kristine and I have officially concluded that we will be losing weight when we return to the states because the food is not nearly as tasty. Here Kri and I are sipping away at some frappes at one of our favorite Cafes.

Back to last weekend... I almost died! No not really, but I have to share the story. Here goes.... we left for Mexico City around 9:30am and we ended up returning around 8:00pm. That is almost 11 hours and I think we spent almost half of that in the car. Which for me, means sleeping. =) Anyways... after we finished visiting the house of Frida Kahlo we got to visit the nearby Zocalo. It was also this day that we learned that although food smells amazing on the streets it is usually not that great. Okay, back to my story.

After visiting the Zocalo, Kristine and I followed Irma, the program director, back to the car. She was practically running as Kristine and I were trying to walk as fast as we could while at the same time enjoying our snacks that weren't so great. Irma approached a busy street and began to cross even though Kri and I were a ways behind. We decided to start sprinting and figured we could probably make it in time to cross as well. Well... off we went sprinting and as we neared she suddenly stopped. Only problem was that we didn't stop. At this point my world seemed to go in slow motion. Irma thrust both arms to the side as to stop us from crossing and as gravity carried us a little further a taxi was forced to slam on it's breaks. It seemed as though no one moved for a minute or so. I was kind of embarrassed but what can you do? Soo... I laughed and then we crossed the street and I began to reminisce about my almost near death experience. Just think, had something happened that afternoon you wouldn't have this lovely face to look at! ha, just kidding!

Anyways... check for another update Monday! I already have so much to share and I will post pictures as well! Blessings!