Saturday, May 13, 2006
Let's saving the environment!
Oooo, hopefully this helps Japan wean itself from the damn wasteful waribashi.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Mexico! Part Tres
Last entry about Mexico! So, Friday morning, Eduardo and I got up and were a wee bit hungover…I felt bad for Ana and Luis Felipe, as they had to get up early and go to work! Ewww, not fun! We were hungover and we slept in! Anyway, we got some amazing Mexican pastries and headed to downtown Mexico City for tourist-y things. The downtown was so much more historic and beautiful than I expected. I LOVED the buildings. We wandered around a bit (with plenty of Gatorade to make up for the drinks the night before…man, I miss real Western Gatorade, rather than the shitty Gatorade here), then ended up at the third largest public square in the world? Or something. It was huge! It looked like we were in Russia. They had an enormous church there that was very pretty, but the foundation of all of that area is all screwed up because it used to be a river or something…..so all of the buildings are like sinking in. Anyway, that means all of the buildings are a bit crooked, and it messed with my head whenever we went inside anywhere. It felt like I had vertigo or something! After the church, we went inside…um…a diplomatic big building thing. I think it might have been the president’s house back when they were all dictators. I think. Eduardo will have to help me on that one! It was huge and really interesting…it made me feel patriotic and I’m not even Mexican! I loved loved loved the murals on the walls by Diego Rivera (it is where Diego was painting in the Frida movie). They were beautiful, and showed the history of Mexico. We explored in there for a while, then walked around downtown some more. We ended up at the BIGGEST bakery I have ever seen in my life. It was seriously my definition of heaven….pastries as far as you could see, and they just kept wheeling out more fresh ones! I wanted to take pictures, but was sadly too embarrassed. I think I want to live there!!!!
After being in heaven, we next went to hell….an unairconditioned subway for a half hour on a very very hot day. Not very fun! We went to the part of the city that Frida lived in, which felt completely different from the other areas we had gone to. It was very hippie-ish and didn’t feel like it we were in the city at all. It was really pretty, though, and a nice area. We had lunch there, then wandered around the markets and stuff. The area had a really cool vibe.
We returned to Eduardo’s exhausted, watched some Sex and the City, then showered (much needed after a hot day in Mexico, eww) and went out for a gay night on the town! First we went to Lipstick, a very pretentious gay bar where everyone looks the same and thinks they’re the shit. Aww, how I miss the gay community! I FINALLY had the Red Bull vodka that I have been craving for 11 months, and it was fucking $15!!! WTF! Beers were only three bucks, tho. We danced there for a while until the music started sucking quite a lot of ass, and we decided to have dinner at 1 am. Mmmm, tacooooooooooooooooooooos.
We next went to what Eduardo calls “the trashy gay bar,” which was even trashier than I expected. Um, they had a Beegees music video on when we went in. Since when did they even have music videos back then?! It was awful and there were like five people in the bar, so we didn’t last very long there. On that wonderful note, our night came to an end! Hehe.
Saturday was like the busiest day EVER EVER EVER. We got up far too early for going to bed at 4:30, went to Costco (aww, I miss me some Costco), had brunch with Ana and Luis Felipe, then did a few shopping errands I had to do before leaving. We then went to Eduardo’s aunt’s house for dinner/his cousin Julia’s birthday party. His aunt made tamales and they were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good. They were also in the hugest pot I have ever seen in my entire life. There had to have been hundreds of tamales in there, and I am not exaggerating. God, they were so good.
We stayed there for a long time, and it was fun…then we went to Ana and Luis Felipe’s to say goodbye. We thought we would only be there for like a half hour, then go back to Eduardo’s to pack and relax…we didn’t know that they had made us ANOTHER huge dinner! Holy shit! I had had six tamales, plus two desserts and was sooooo full….but I didn’t want to be rude, so I somehow had yet another dinner AND a dessert. Who knows how that worked. It was really fucking good, tho. We got back really late, I packed while we watched 40 Year-Old Virgin, then got two hours of sleep before we headed to the airport at 4:30 in the morning (fun!).
We had my last mango of the trip at the airport (sad!!!!), wandered around a bit, then said goodbye (MUCH MORE SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). That was not fun at all :( :( :(
I then traveled home for 25 fucking hours, where I landed in the “why is it cold in May?” country of stupid Japan and returned to my stupid lonely apartment! Hee hee, I am not bitter.
Anyway, it was an incredible trip. Before going, I had only thought about seeing Eduardo, and didn’t really think about actually going to Mexico….I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I loved the country. It is so beautiful and has really interesting history, architecture, etc. Also, everyone was so nice! Well, Eduardo’s friends/family, not bitchy people on the street, hee hee. Plus they have good-ass food, of course. So yes, it was a GREAT trip, and I want to go back right now. AND I GOT TO SEE MY BOYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, yep, that’s my trip! I am really behind on posting pictures, but I hope to do that in the next week (yes, I always say that, but I actually plan on it this time).
After being in heaven, we next went to hell….an unairconditioned subway for a half hour on a very very hot day. Not very fun! We went to the part of the city that Frida lived in, which felt completely different from the other areas we had gone to. It was very hippie-ish and didn’t feel like it we were in the city at all. It was really pretty, though, and a nice area. We had lunch there, then wandered around the markets and stuff. The area had a really cool vibe.
We returned to Eduardo’s exhausted, watched some Sex and the City, then showered (much needed after a hot day in Mexico, eww) and went out for a gay night on the town! First we went to Lipstick, a very pretentious gay bar where everyone looks the same and thinks they’re the shit. Aww, how I miss the gay community! I FINALLY had the Red Bull vodka that I have been craving for 11 months, and it was fucking $15!!! WTF! Beers were only three bucks, tho. We danced there for a while until the music started sucking quite a lot of ass, and we decided to have dinner at 1 am. Mmmm, tacooooooooooooooooooooos.
We next went to what Eduardo calls “the trashy gay bar,” which was even trashier than I expected. Um, they had a Beegees music video on when we went in. Since when did they even have music videos back then?! It was awful and there were like five people in the bar, so we didn’t last very long there. On that wonderful note, our night came to an end! Hehe.
Saturday was like the busiest day EVER EVER EVER. We got up far too early for going to bed at 4:30, went to Costco (aww, I miss me some Costco), had brunch with Ana and Luis Felipe, then did a few shopping errands I had to do before leaving. We then went to Eduardo’s aunt’s house for dinner/his cousin Julia’s birthday party. His aunt made tamales and they were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good. They were also in the hugest pot I have ever seen in my entire life. There had to have been hundreds of tamales in there, and I am not exaggerating. God, they were so good.
We stayed there for a long time, and it was fun…then we went to Ana and Luis Felipe’s to say goodbye. We thought we would only be there for like a half hour, then go back to Eduardo’s to pack and relax…we didn’t know that they had made us ANOTHER huge dinner! Holy shit! I had had six tamales, plus two desserts and was sooooo full….but I didn’t want to be rude, so I somehow had yet another dinner AND a dessert. Who knows how that worked. It was really fucking good, tho. We got back really late, I packed while we watched 40 Year-Old Virgin, then got two hours of sleep before we headed to the airport at 4:30 in the morning (fun!).
We had my last mango of the trip at the airport (sad!!!!), wandered around a bit, then said goodbye (MUCH MORE SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). That was not fun at all :( :( :(
I then traveled home for 25 fucking hours, where I landed in the “why is it cold in May?” country of stupid Japan and returned to my stupid lonely apartment! Hee hee, I am not bitter.
Anyway, it was an incredible trip. Before going, I had only thought about seeing Eduardo, and didn’t really think about actually going to Mexico….I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I loved the country. It is so beautiful and has really interesting history, architecture, etc. Also, everyone was so nice! Well, Eduardo’s friends/family, not bitchy people on the street, hee hee. Plus they have good-ass food, of course. So yes, it was a GREAT trip, and I want to go back right now. AND I GOT TO SEE MY BOYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, yep, that’s my trip! I am really behind on posting pictures, but I hope to do that in the next week (yes, I always say that, but I actually plan on it this time).
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Mexico! Part Dos (Hotcakes!)
This blog title is a shout-out to Holly and the fine folks at Denny’s. Hollah!
Anyway, back to too many details about my Mexico trip! Tuesday morning, Eduardo and I woke up early and went into downtown Guanajuato, which was AMAZINGLY beautiful. The town was home to Spaniards in the 1500s, and was an important part of the revolution/independence, as Mexicans fought the Spaniards there and took back the town. Anyway, because of its history, its architecture made us feel like we were in Europe. The buildings were colorful and beautiful, and there were tons of small plazas where the locals would just hang out. I will post a million pictures of it eventually.
We got a yummy cheap-ass breakfast, then started walking for hours and hours and hours. We got a ton of exercise while we were there (and throughout the whole trip in general). There is a viewpoint on top of a hill in which you can see the whole town, so we hiked up there, among other places. We found a DELICIOUS street vendor-ish place (Not a real street vendor, but not a real restaurant, either. Fuck, I love street vendors) for lunch, where we ate like 300 meals’ worth of food. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. We relaxed a bit for the afternoon, then went back to where we had breakfast, as they had CHEAP-ASS BEER! We got a 1 liter beer with salt, lime, Worcestershire sauce (sp?) and chili mixed in for $3.50 each! These were incredibly classy beers, as they came in huge styrofoam cups with straws punched through the lid! It looked like some sort of secretive Big Gulp or something. Eduardo is apparently an alcoholic, as he sucked his liter of beer down in like three seconds. I have become Japanese, as I couldn’t drink all of it because I wanted izakaya-type snacks with it. Hello, you can’t drink beer by itself! So, Eduardo was a lush and helped me out with mine :)
That night we had a semi-romantic meal at a restaurant near the plaza. It was meant to be more romantic, but there was blaring Mexican music coming from bands in the public gazebo, and a soccer game that all of the dumb straight people were freaking out about. But it was still fun….tho we ate wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much and kind of wanted to vomit. Hmm, maybe not so romantic, now that I think about it ;)
We walked our meal off around town that night, then went to bed. On Wednesday morning we got some pastries for breakfast (MMMMMM, Mexican pastries are the most amazing things in the world), then wandered around town some more. I bought omiyage for my damn teachers (stupid, stupid custom!) and…I dunno what else we did. We got an amazing fruit bowl from a street vendor. It was my mission to have a mango every day I was there, as they are shitty and over a dollar each here! Then we had lunch at the same place as the day before. Mmm, chile rellenos (sp)! Fucking good shit.
That night we took the nice bus back (but it only had dubbed movies….as much as I wanted to watch the Dukes of Hazzard movie in Spanish!), then crashed at Eduardo’s place.
On Thursday we did stuff! Um, wtf did we do on Thursday? Oh, that was our first day in Mexico City. We went to the gay area, where I bought some perfectly legal copies of gay movies! Mmmhmm! We met up with Eduardo’s friend Enrique for lunch. Oh, but before that, we paid to let Starbucks poison us! Allow me to explain….Mexico has recently made the most sketchy invention ever….milk that doesn’t go bad! Um, yeah. It comes in cartons similar to soy/rice milk, but it is “normal” milk. However, you don’t have to refrigerate it before you open it?! Um, yeah, that is incredibly trust-worthy. Starbucks doesn’t have soy milk, but only has the lactose-free version of this milk. I had issues with it earlier in the week, and did once again with Starbucks. Ugh, stupid sketchy milk!
That night, Eduardo and I became members of Mexico City high society by attending the premiere of the National Geographic furniture line. Ana works for Liverpool (a high-class department store) and is in charge of the company’s entire furniture department. She organized the event, and invited us to it. It was in a SUPER SUPER SUPER nice restaurant in the Mexico City equivalent of Central Park. The restaurant is at least $150 per person for a meal! Damn, boy. So, it was nice to go there for free and pretend to be important people. I wanted to take a picture of their bathrooms, if that shows how nice it is. Anyway, the premiere was cool, and it didn’t hurt that we got free wine out of it. It also had a view of an incredibly beautiful lake/fountain thing. Oh, and the speaker at the event was the Mexican/Argentinian equivalent of George Clooney (hot old-man actor).
After drinking lots of wine, Eduardo, Ana, Luis Felipe and I headed out to a bar and had some yummy yummy mojitos and danced a bit. After getting successfully drunk, we had the BEST FUCKING DRUNK TACOS EVER. Holy shit! I had like five and wanted approximately three bazillion more. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Drunk tacos are SO much better than drunk yakisoba!!!!!!!!!
After that, Eduardo and I went home and assed out yet again.
To be continued!
Anyway, back to too many details about my Mexico trip! Tuesday morning, Eduardo and I woke up early and went into downtown Guanajuato, which was AMAZINGLY beautiful. The town was home to Spaniards in the 1500s, and was an important part of the revolution/independence, as Mexicans fought the Spaniards there and took back the town. Anyway, because of its history, its architecture made us feel like we were in Europe. The buildings were colorful and beautiful, and there were tons of small plazas where the locals would just hang out. I will post a million pictures of it eventually.
We got a yummy cheap-ass breakfast, then started walking for hours and hours and hours. We got a ton of exercise while we were there (and throughout the whole trip in general). There is a viewpoint on top of a hill in which you can see the whole town, so we hiked up there, among other places. We found a DELICIOUS street vendor-ish place (Not a real street vendor, but not a real restaurant, either. Fuck, I love street vendors) for lunch, where we ate like 300 meals’ worth of food. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. We relaxed a bit for the afternoon, then went back to where we had breakfast, as they had CHEAP-ASS BEER! We got a 1 liter beer with salt, lime, Worcestershire sauce (sp?) and chili mixed in for $3.50 each! These were incredibly classy beers, as they came in huge styrofoam cups with straws punched through the lid! It looked like some sort of secretive Big Gulp or something. Eduardo is apparently an alcoholic, as he sucked his liter of beer down in like three seconds. I have become Japanese, as I couldn’t drink all of it because I wanted izakaya-type snacks with it. Hello, you can’t drink beer by itself! So, Eduardo was a lush and helped me out with mine :)
That night we had a semi-romantic meal at a restaurant near the plaza. It was meant to be more romantic, but there was blaring Mexican music coming from bands in the public gazebo, and a soccer game that all of the dumb straight people were freaking out about. But it was still fun….tho we ate wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much and kind of wanted to vomit. Hmm, maybe not so romantic, now that I think about it ;)
We walked our meal off around town that night, then went to bed. On Wednesday morning we got some pastries for breakfast (MMMMMM, Mexican pastries are the most amazing things in the world), then wandered around town some more. I bought omiyage for my damn teachers (stupid, stupid custom!) and…I dunno what else we did. We got an amazing fruit bowl from a street vendor. It was my mission to have a mango every day I was there, as they are shitty and over a dollar each here! Then we had lunch at the same place as the day before. Mmm, chile rellenos (sp)! Fucking good shit.
That night we took the nice bus back (but it only had dubbed movies….as much as I wanted to watch the Dukes of Hazzard movie in Spanish!), then crashed at Eduardo’s place.
On Thursday we did stuff! Um, wtf did we do on Thursday? Oh, that was our first day in Mexico City. We went to the gay area, where I bought some perfectly legal copies of gay movies! Mmmhmm! We met up with Eduardo’s friend Enrique for lunch. Oh, but before that, we paid to let Starbucks poison us! Allow me to explain….Mexico has recently made the most sketchy invention ever….milk that doesn’t go bad! Um, yeah. It comes in cartons similar to soy/rice milk, but it is “normal” milk. However, you don’t have to refrigerate it before you open it?! Um, yeah, that is incredibly trust-worthy. Starbucks doesn’t have soy milk, but only has the lactose-free version of this milk. I had issues with it earlier in the week, and did once again with Starbucks. Ugh, stupid sketchy milk!
That night, Eduardo and I became members of Mexico City high society by attending the premiere of the National Geographic furniture line. Ana works for Liverpool (a high-class department store) and is in charge of the company’s entire furniture department. She organized the event, and invited us to it. It was in a SUPER SUPER SUPER nice restaurant in the Mexico City equivalent of Central Park. The restaurant is at least $150 per person for a meal! Damn, boy. So, it was nice to go there for free and pretend to be important people. I wanted to take a picture of their bathrooms, if that shows how nice it is. Anyway, the premiere was cool, and it didn’t hurt that we got free wine out of it. It also had a view of an incredibly beautiful lake/fountain thing. Oh, and the speaker at the event was the Mexican/Argentinian equivalent of George Clooney (hot old-man actor).
After drinking lots of wine, Eduardo, Ana, Luis Felipe and I headed out to a bar and had some yummy yummy mojitos and danced a bit. After getting successfully drunk, we had the BEST FUCKING DRUNK TACOS EVER. Holy shit! I had like five and wanted approximately three bazillion more. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Drunk tacos are SO much better than drunk yakisoba!!!!!!!!!
After that, Eduardo and I went home and assed out yet again.
To be continued!
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Mexico! Part Uno
Soooooooooo, I went to Mexico for Golden Week and FINALLY saw Eduardo for the first time in 11 god damn months!!!! I had an amaaaaaaaaaazing time…even better than I had expected. I wanted to write about it so that I remember all that I did. So, in order to not write about it twice, I will just post my journal-ish stuff to my blog. It will probably be hella long, so….yeah. You can skip it if you want :)
On Thursday I woke up early out of excitement and got ready to go to Narita. For those who don’t know, Narita Airport is 1) not in Tokyo (tho it pretends to be) and 2) is fucking far away no matter where you live. It takes three hours to get to Narita, and is a bitch with luggage, but is even worse by bus. So, I impatiently trained for three hours so that I could sit on planes for a bazillion more hours. All together, I traveled for 24 hours. Fun stuff!!!
Despite taking sleeping pills, I couldn’t sleep on the 12-hour flight to Houston. This is proof that Japanese medicine doesn’t do shit, yo. From Houston, I took a plane of death that holds 50 people. It was so short that I couldn’t stand up completely, as my head would go through the roof. Also, my “row” had one seat in it. Um, not acceptable! I had to close my window because it was too scary. Fortunately I slept through most of it (I think out of fear more than exhaustion). Anyway, I finally landed in Mexico, got through customs quickly, and SAW MY BOY, yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I barely recognized him, as he was skinny and in a suit! Crazy old working man ;) hehe. We immediately exchanged my money, where the lady tried to steal $100 from me! WTF! I gave her $650 (well, in yen), and she said it was only 550. Fortunately I noticed the “error” and she was just like, “Yeah, I’ll give you the other 100 in a minute.” Um, nice first experience in Mexico! Hehe.
We had dinner at the airport (mole! And a margarita! Mmmmm), then went to Eduardo’s apartment, where I eventually assed out….only to wake up 4:30 in the morning, unable to sleep anymore! Yes, four hours of sleep in 30 hours is apparently all jetlagged Jeff needs. We made huevos rancheros for breakfast (orgasm), then got ready to go out. Eduardo had a bit of work to do at Berlitz, but first we went to see Rent (the movie)! It opened the day after I arrived….coincidence? I think not! There was only one other person in the theater with us, sad! We were both amused that they renamed it Rent Extreme Lives….you know those gays….they live to the extreme, man! Anyway, it was fun to see it on the big screen. I didn’t like the movie the first time I saw it, but I like it a lot now. And it was nice to see it with my boy, awwww!
After that we went to Berlitz, where Jeff assed out and was about to eat Eddy’s desk out of pure starvation. After acting like a grumpy 5 year-old (do not mess with jetlagged Jeff!), we went and had a HUGE lunch of tacos and tortas. Fuck, it was amazing.
That evening we met up with Eduardo’s friend Ana and her boyfriend Luis Felipe. They were nice enough to invite us to spend the weekend with them in Luis Felipe’s family vacation home in Tepeji del Rio. It was a great place! It’s away from the city, and was really relaxing.
On Saturday, we got up and drove to an area whose name I don’t remember! Eduardo is going to send me a list of place names, so I will add them later. Anyway, we went hiking on a monolith (only three in the world exist) and it was a good workout! We didn’t go up that high, but it was pretty tiring and hot! From the halfway point (fuck going up all the way, yo!) we got a great view of the beautiful traditional town beneath it. We had a gooooooooooooood lunch and beers in town, where I saw an EXACT double of my cousin Zack, which was really freaky. I took sneaky stalker pictures of him for proof! I think Zack grew braided rat tails and is living in Mexico!!!
That night we made dinner and had sake that I brought over at their request. Mmm, it was yummy!
On Sunday we had breakfast, then Eduardo and I took the bus back into the city to meet up with his family. Eek, meeting Eduardo’s family! They don’t speak English, so I was a little nervous, but it was nice to meet them! They are loud and crazy like my family, so I felt at home :) Eduardo’s aunt was VERY excited to meet me and cook for me (hello, they are as obsessed with food as my family….we were meant to be!), and DAMN did she cook a shitload of food. I sat at the table and ate for like three hours straight! We had tacos, and they were sooooooooooooooooo fucking good. She made the best chorizo I have ever had, as well as fried cactus (mmmmm), great guacamole, salsa, fried onions (I don’t know the word for the type of onion….the ones with like the bulbs at the bottom or whatever), and more. FUCK it was good! I was a bit overwhelmed with the Spanish at first, but I understand more Spanish than I thought I did! It’s just like English but with o’s and a’s at the end ;) Hehehe.
We bused back to Eduardo’s apartment that night, then got up early on Monday to go see the pyramids. They are about an hour outside of the city, and they were fucking amazing! There were two pyramids (one for the sun and one for the moon), as well as the ruins of the old marketplace, a temple, and more. They are the first pyramids I have ever seen, and they were beautiful. Also, might I say that the Aztecs must have been fit as shit, because those stairs are NOT easy to climb! Jesus, our legs were sore afterwards. They were incredible to see, though.
For lunch we went to this cool restaurant that’s in a cave near the pyramids. Holy shit, it was muy oishii! We had this lamb dish that was great, as well as yummy appetizers and a VERY good margarita. Mmm.
From there, we went back to the bus station, where we took a 5-hour bus ride to Guanajuato, a really old town northeast of the city. We took the first-class bus and it was SO nice! You have a shitload of leg room, the whole bus is dark so you can sleep, and it has movies and stuff. It was better than a plane! We got into Guanjuato late at night, went to our hotel, and got a room…Eduardo had warned me that since it is in central Mexico, they are conservative there. Man, was it amusing to get a single-bed room for the two of us! The guy at the counter was like, “One bed?! I can give you two! It will be a lot more comfortable.” Eduardo said one was fine, and the guy was like, “Okay…..but I can give you two beds!” After a few minutes, the guy gave in and gave us the room, hehe. We promptly assed out in preparation of our day of all walking on Tuesday.
Told you this would be hella long, Jesus. To be continued tomorrow, maybe.
On Thursday I woke up early out of excitement and got ready to go to Narita. For those who don’t know, Narita Airport is 1) not in Tokyo (tho it pretends to be) and 2) is fucking far away no matter where you live. It takes three hours to get to Narita, and is a bitch with luggage, but is even worse by bus. So, I impatiently trained for three hours so that I could sit on planes for a bazillion more hours. All together, I traveled for 24 hours. Fun stuff!!!
Despite taking sleeping pills, I couldn’t sleep on the 12-hour flight to Houston. This is proof that Japanese medicine doesn’t do shit, yo. From Houston, I took a plane of death that holds 50 people. It was so short that I couldn’t stand up completely, as my head would go through the roof. Also, my “row” had one seat in it. Um, not acceptable! I had to close my window because it was too scary. Fortunately I slept through most of it (I think out of fear more than exhaustion). Anyway, I finally landed in Mexico, got through customs quickly, and SAW MY BOY, yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I barely recognized him, as he was skinny and in a suit! Crazy old working man ;) hehe. We immediately exchanged my money, where the lady tried to steal $100 from me! WTF! I gave her $650 (well, in yen), and she said it was only 550. Fortunately I noticed the “error” and she was just like, “Yeah, I’ll give you the other 100 in a minute.” Um, nice first experience in Mexico! Hehe.
We had dinner at the airport (mole! And a margarita! Mmmmm), then went to Eduardo’s apartment, where I eventually assed out….only to wake up 4:30 in the morning, unable to sleep anymore! Yes, four hours of sleep in 30 hours is apparently all jetlagged Jeff needs. We made huevos rancheros for breakfast (orgasm), then got ready to go out. Eduardo had a bit of work to do at Berlitz, but first we went to see Rent (the movie)! It opened the day after I arrived….coincidence? I think not! There was only one other person in the theater with us, sad! We were both amused that they renamed it Rent Extreme Lives….you know those gays….they live to the extreme, man! Anyway, it was fun to see it on the big screen. I didn’t like the movie the first time I saw it, but I like it a lot now. And it was nice to see it with my boy, awwww!
After that we went to Berlitz, where Jeff assed out and was about to eat Eddy’s desk out of pure starvation. After acting like a grumpy 5 year-old (do not mess with jetlagged Jeff!), we went and had a HUGE lunch of tacos and tortas. Fuck, it was amazing.
That evening we met up with Eduardo’s friend Ana and her boyfriend Luis Felipe. They were nice enough to invite us to spend the weekend with them in Luis Felipe’s family vacation home in Tepeji del Rio. It was a great place! It’s away from the city, and was really relaxing.
On Saturday, we got up and drove to an area whose name I don’t remember! Eduardo is going to send me a list of place names, so I will add them later. Anyway, we went hiking on a monolith (only three in the world exist) and it was a good workout! We didn’t go up that high, but it was pretty tiring and hot! From the halfway point (fuck going up all the way, yo!) we got a great view of the beautiful traditional town beneath it. We had a gooooooooooooood lunch and beers in town, where I saw an EXACT double of my cousin Zack, which was really freaky. I took sneaky stalker pictures of him for proof! I think Zack grew braided rat tails and is living in Mexico!!!
That night we made dinner and had sake that I brought over at their request. Mmm, it was yummy!
On Sunday we had breakfast, then Eduardo and I took the bus back into the city to meet up with his family. Eek, meeting Eduardo’s family! They don’t speak English, so I was a little nervous, but it was nice to meet them! They are loud and crazy like my family, so I felt at home :) Eduardo’s aunt was VERY excited to meet me and cook for me (hello, they are as obsessed with food as my family….we were meant to be!), and DAMN did she cook a shitload of food. I sat at the table and ate for like three hours straight! We had tacos, and they were sooooooooooooooooo fucking good. She made the best chorizo I have ever had, as well as fried cactus (mmmmm), great guacamole, salsa, fried onions (I don’t know the word for the type of onion….the ones with like the bulbs at the bottom or whatever), and more. FUCK it was good! I was a bit overwhelmed with the Spanish at first, but I understand more Spanish than I thought I did! It’s just like English but with o’s and a’s at the end ;) Hehehe.
We bused back to Eduardo’s apartment that night, then got up early on Monday to go see the pyramids. They are about an hour outside of the city, and they were fucking amazing! There were two pyramids (one for the sun and one for the moon), as well as the ruins of the old marketplace, a temple, and more. They are the first pyramids I have ever seen, and they were beautiful. Also, might I say that the Aztecs must have been fit as shit, because those stairs are NOT easy to climb! Jesus, our legs were sore afterwards. They were incredible to see, though.
For lunch we went to this cool restaurant that’s in a cave near the pyramids. Holy shit, it was muy oishii! We had this lamb dish that was great, as well as yummy appetizers and a VERY good margarita. Mmm.
From there, we went back to the bus station, where we took a 5-hour bus ride to Guanajuato, a really old town northeast of the city. We took the first-class bus and it was SO nice! You have a shitload of leg room, the whole bus is dark so you can sleep, and it has movies and stuff. It was better than a plane! We got into Guanjuato late at night, went to our hotel, and got a room…Eduardo had warned me that since it is in central Mexico, they are conservative there. Man, was it amusing to get a single-bed room for the two of us! The guy at the counter was like, “One bed?! I can give you two! It will be a lot more comfortable.” Eduardo said one was fine, and the guy was like, “Okay…..but I can give you two beds!” After a few minutes, the guy gave in and gave us the room, hehe. We promptly assed out in preparation of our day of all walking on Tuesday.
Told you this would be hella long, Jesus. To be continued tomorrow, maybe.
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