Sylvia needs...hairy mummies

In following my good friend heather, I made the google search. Sylvia needs something more than platitudes right now was number one. Followed by, Sylvia needs all the support she can get and Sylvia needs to be useful, inviting, and intuitive enough to overcome the extra time involved in creating a consistent, structured syllabus. Now,the last one doesn't really make that much sense, but i really quite enjoy the first one.
Anyways,
Said goal of going to Mexico was accomplished. After a harrowing flight there (my plane from seattle was delayed for five hours, didn't get into houston until 3 in the morning, but i enjoyed the fox news shop right next to the George Bush statue, complete with his tie blowing in the wind)
I enjoyed a week and a half of Monterrey, with a side trip to San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Dolores Hidalgo and Real de Catorce. Let me tell you, I will someday live in Guanajuato. Coolest town ever! it is made up of winding, narrow streets, and by law, the whole town must be structured to meet the architectural design of its core which dates from the late 1700's. Needless to say, I was impressed. The city's traffic is supported by an intricate tunnel system. Good times were had trying to navigate around the city. We passed by a city guide three times before we finally stopped and asked for help! He was laughing so hard at us! At the edge of town, there is a mummy museum. Apparently the soil there has a strange mix that naturally mummifies people. So they were going to build over a cemetary and they went to remove this group grave site and found all these mummified bodies. Pretty cool considering they still had TEETH and EYES and they were HAIRY!!! The world's smallest mummy is there too.

We enjoyed the artist town of San Miguel, its really pretty and went touring and had ice cream in dolores hidalgo where the revolution was started by hidalgo. I learned a ton about mexican history. pretty interesting stuff.
Last was a trip up a extremely long cobblestone road (i think 24 km to be exact!), thru a one-way traffic tunnel (controlled by two guys with radios) and to real de catorce, a ghost town that has been revived due to the number of indigenous pilgrims that come there to collect peyote. We wandered for a while. seems like the biggest industry there is construction! it was where they shot The Mexican.
Upon return to Monterrey, I met most of Rafa's friends and we went clubbing. The rest of the days were spent exploring caves, driving thru a canyon, going to two museums, a baseball game, and perhaps most interestingly for a poli sci nerd like myself, talking to people about the elections as an observer, and going to polling stations. Very interesting stuff! i learned a lot not only about Mexican elections, but also about Canadian ones. anyways, enjoy the pics. im off to bask in the sun!