danika's adventures in mexico

silver silver siiiiiilllllver!

hopefully this weekend rene is taking me to taxco, the silver capital of mexico. (any requests, let me know). cheap cheap cheap! i am very excited.

i got a new toy today in my library. it beeps and shoots red light and it's meant for stunning unruly children. actually it's a bar code scanner! wahooo. i know, slow news day. but really it is quite a lot of fun and entertainment, perhaps because i have had nothing to do for weeks, so anything is entertaining.

i watched man on fire the other day, which has denzel washington and dakota fanning and marc anthony, and despite all of them, is a really good thriller! set in mexico city... and like the girl in it, many of the little kids at my school have personal bodyguards. so that was interesting.

and that is it. i am boring, i know. my livejournal should be taken away from me and given to someone more deserving...

what's new, what's new... the world was supposed to end yesterday, but i guess it didn't. or maybe it did, and there's no way to tell!

nomi graduated! congratulations, nomi!

i went to see da vinci's inquest on the weekend. it was actually a little better than the book (although that isn't that big of an achievement). although any book/movie with an albino villian is guaranteed to be high art.

where is melly? maybe the world only ended in P-ville?? write me back, baby!

4 weeks and two days left of school.

and...ya!

New pics on my flickr! Check check check it out... i know they are all of scenery, i know i will get comments on that, but i hate being in my own pictures and it was only kate and i on vacation. so there!

I haven't slept in almost a week.... sooooo tired. Last night I even took a sleeping pill and it didn't work, I just kept having these wierd feelings that I was drowning and I still couldn't sleep and "woke up" with a horrible hangover feeling from taking the pill and not sleeping it off. My eyes were watering all day, they are so tired. Am I sleeping now? Will this entry be here when I look later?...... Deeeeeep Thoughts.

So apparently some people live for this (ha! Nomi!) and I have been slacking off. Anyway, just got back last night from a 12 day vacation, which was very nice. Kate and I ditched the boys and went off to Oaxaca City (colonial, nice plazas and cafes), to some ruins and other towns around it, and then down to Mazunte (hippies GALORE!), a little tiny town on the beach. That was nice, very different from most other beach towns in Mexico- it's not a resort per se, but it's all about tourism and hotels and restaurants. But very rustic. Then we went up the coast to Puerto Escondido, which was different again. The town is fairly average for a Mexican town but the beaches were beautiful. Lots of Europeans there but most of the tourists were Mexican, actually. We stayed in a funny little bungalow stone house there, which was very funky looking but we had several funny incidents and it was hot as hell. The first day this water storage thing on the roof leaked all of this water into our room. Then that night the leg on my bed broke in the middle of the night. Interesting... Haha. Then the last night we kept being woken up by noises outside. There were all these traps out for some kind of animal, who knows what. They were squares of plastic on the terrace covered with some extremely sticky shit. And all of the doors and windows were open because it was so hot. So we woke up at like 1 am to hear some kind of animal that sounded like it was in the kitchen of the bungalow (I think it was really on the terrace). Not having any idea of what kind of critters live there, Kate and I were really freaked out and were both cowering on our beds, it took forever to even get up the nerve to run for the light and then to look in the kitchen. Meanwhile, the thing kept banging around outside, we think it was on the terrace right outside the kitchen and was stuck on one of the traps and trying to get loose. Eventually the banging stopped and we never did see what it was. Cowards! Cowards!

Anyway, 17 hours on the bus in less than two days and back at home with my baby.... awwwww.

The count is down to 9 days!!! Next Friday at 2:01 pm I will officially be on vacation... oh yeah.

It keeps raining and raining and raining. And I don't have a raincoat... or an umbrella... silly girl. This weekend I spent one day at a school picnic. Yuck, working on a Saturday. But it was at an amazing place, the country house of one of the students, in a polo club outside the city. Dammit, some people have craploads of money. I jumped on a trampoline with the kids and I think it hurt my back. Kate too. Things the elderly shouldn't do! Gee cly! (I'm sure that's not how to spell it but Nomi knows what I mean). Then Sunday it rained. And I spent most of the day on the couch watching a Desperate Housewives marathon and eating fruit salad and chocolate and gummi bears and some apple cakey thing and quesadillas. Wow. And slept during the day and consequently couldn't sleep last night. Never a smart plan.

I'm free for 16 days count: 11 days remaining

Back from Pachuca (or actually, not really Pachuca), and it was fab-u-lous. We actually stayed most of the time in a small town called Real del Monte, about 2 hours from Mexico City. It was so cool, cobblestone streets and colonial buildings, with tons of silver stores (and yes, I did get some silver!). That was so nice and relaxing and beautiful, and the hotel was awesome too. I will be posting some pictures today, check them out! At the previously noted flickr address. Hey Nomi, I think we will go here when you come, because the pyramids are on the way, so it makes a lot of sense. So you, pay particular attention to the pics to see what you think!

The wedding was good, we went to the ceremony and it was a lot of standing up and sitting down... regular Catholic ceremony. The church was really beautiful but we couldn't see the bride and groom very well so it was kind of strange. Then the reception was in the absolute middle of nowhere, down the longest dirt road ever. It was bizarre, we got lost and then we were driving forever before we finally found it, and it was outside this really odd house. They had a good Cuban band and people were dancing and the groom tried to get me to dance with him. How embarrassing- I have of course stopped trying to dance like that at things when everyone is watching you.

On Monday we went to a different place called Huasca, to see a waterfall that was very cool, it had some neat rock formations around it. After that we went down the curviest road in the world (barely wide enough for one lane but of course marked for two), literally 180 degree curves, so you would come all the way around a rock outcropping and almost keep going straight. I know, I know, longest dirt road, curviest road ever, but I'm not exaggerating! Really! I have seen some crazy roads in Mexico but this might just have been the craziest. At the end of that road was a beautiful little village in the middle of a national park. There are also pictures of this place, Mineral del Chico. And of the waterfalls. We stayed there one night and then yesterday tried to find a pyramid near Pachucha. We ended up driving forever and finally found it after getting lost a few times. And of course this was the complete opposite from all of the other amazing and crazy things, roads and everything. It was almost entirely crumbled down and was really tiny and not restored at all... oh well! There were some nice cliffs and we went for a walk before heading back to the city.

And that was my fantastic, amazing vacation. Look at the pictures to see for yourselves!

sorrrrry nomi.

update to upcoming plans! nomi is coming to visit me in may! my favourite only sister is coming!

well, i am not being very good about writing anything, even though I now have fabulous fabulous internet in my house. i have, however, posted a whole batch of new pictures, which can be found at... http://www.flickr.com/photos/83487318@N00/?saved=1

i think that's right.

i have an evil cold, that's not good. but lots of plans coming up! this weekend it's acapulco and the beach, baby! although I was told last week that the water is so polluted it can give you a rash...

then the next weekend i'm going to a wedding in Pachuca with Rene. And about two weeks after that it's off to spring break.

good times in the DF...