Viva Mexico!

Well, I have had an amazing time here already and it's only been 1 day! I almost missed my plane because Continental is silly but the nice guy at the ticket counter called general manager and got me on the plane. From then on, everything went really smoothly. I had an uneventful flight to Houston and then a great flight to Mexico City because I was sitting in between two really cool people. Sara is from Denver, a member of the church of Scientology and a really nice person. Ivar was on my right, from Veracruz, returning from Minneapolis where he was studying architecture. He and I talked a lot about Mexico and things I should do (mostly food I should eat!) He was wonderful company and very encouraging about my trip. I got off the plane and waited about an hour through passport check listening to these poor people talk about how horrible their vacation had started off because of storms and complaining that they weren't going to have as many days in Cabo or wherever they were going, poor guys ;) They I caught a bus to Cuernavaca and the first hour was major traffic--Mexico City is pretty much the biggest mish mash of people I have ever seen. There was also a football (soccer) game going on so that made for interesting scenery--the guys in the backs of trucks with their mexican masks and flags trailing from cars and cars with pretty much as many people in them as possible. Then we got out of there and went through the mountains south. It was really gorgeous and green. I got here and Alessandro picked me up. He is an real gentleman and has been a wonderful host. We went shopping because he wanted to cook for me and while we were driving I found out he is a software engineer and he won a contest for a software application for blackberry--obviously very intelligent. He made me something like quesadillas last night except with two tortillas, cheese and ham, then we spread fresh avocado on top and some chipotle chilis---oh man, you don't know how good that was! Then we went and played poker and blackjack with some friends of his til after 1 am cause it was so fun. His friend had this massive Weimeraner dog that was really beautiful but a bit excitable. Ok, I think that's all for now and don't expect future blogs to be so detailed but since he has a laptop and his own computer I have good access to the internet now, but maybe not in the future (he's leaving for New York in 3 days)
Hasta luego,