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!