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.