Semana Santa thus far

Hello everyone
Here is a quick update of what we have been doing so far on our vacation. I feel like the majority of it has been spent in a little bus with everyone in our group sleeping, reading, getting carsick and watching movies. OK the carsickness has not really affected me, but others have been a bit sick.
Anyways we set off the first day at 6am from Merida and arrived in Villa Hermosa a mere seven hours later. We spent some time in a park and zoo and then went back to the seminary in which we were staying for dinner and relaxation, we just spent the night talking and laughing which was a nice break.
The next day we had a small worship service at the Seminary and set out for Vera Cruz, more time spent in the bus, but all was well. We arrived in Vera Cruz and proceeded to ride the TuriBus, which was interesting, a little frustrating because we could not hear any of the information and we were all extremely tired, however, it was fun to see Vera Cruz at night. There was a show going on in one of the plazas so we watched some dancing for a while, one of the dances consisted of girls dancing with firesticks, a bit scary!

The next day we once again set off for Mexico City, on our way we stopped at a beautiful little place int he mountains to take pictures and also had a great time watching Dirty Dancing, poor grant is getting stuck with all of our girly movies! We arrived in Mexico city, but we stayed ina church in Coyocan, an amazing little part of Mexico city taht reminds me a ton of east town, it is really calm with lots of book stores, a mercado, coffee shops, really good ice cream and much more. It was amazing, I probably could stay there a week and just relax. Anyways, in Mexico city we first went to the Basilica, which is pretty much the center of Catholism in Latin America, it was beautiful and very ornate, tehre were tons of people there because it is Semana Santa (Holy week). We then headed to some Aztec ruins and climbed a ginormous pyramid! I thought i was going to die once I reached the top! But it was awesome. The next day we headed to center of Mexico City, and saw the Cathedral, which is the second largest Cathedral in all of Latin America, we also climbed up into the bell towers, first time I have ever been on the top of a Cathedral before! (we also have some great pictures of grant as Quasi Modo). We also saw ruins of Tenochtilan and went to a Mexican Ballet, the ballet was amazing! Much mroe happened in Mexico city, we made some friends at the church who were our guides for the three days there, Mauricio and Uri!

Now we have just arrived in Ouaxaco (wa-ha-ka) and are getting settled into our hostel, my first experience in a hostel, we are going to eat soon and have the night to relax. Tomorrow we are off to ride horses and who knows what else. So far teh trip has been wonderful and relaxing, and we are not even half way through!

However we have reached teh halfway point of the semester this week, well it is on friday, and we are pretty excited we have survived so far! ONce again thanks for all the prayers and since I won´t be able to update till after easter

He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed
Happy Easter!