food!

Ok, so just a quick post to talk about how delicioso the food is here...and the answer to that is VERY!! I went with a friend last night to a little corner taqueria and had something like we would call fajitas...they give you the cooked meat and vegetables on your plate and tortillas and you make your own. They have 5 different little bowls on the table with limes (which are like .50 a kilo here) pico de gallo, and 3 different salsas...all nice and spicy. it was the most delicious mexican food i´ve ever had.
One other interesting thing...while i was waiting for this guy to pick me up in front of the cathedral, there were these guys standing there next to white cars, one suv and two cars. they started talking with me and we chatted away about what i like to do here and what music i listen to, etc...and then they started talking about what they do--which they said was like 'state security' so i didn´t really understand what they were doing (there are like 15 different types of police here i´ve figured) until a family came out of the cathedral and they were like, ok, gotta go...and they ushered the family into the cars and off they drove. so basically, private security for government officials that is provided by the government...i thought it was great.