Weekend in Oaxaca

This past weekend I went to Oaxaca with the international programs here at Tec. First, it took like 8 - 9 hours to get there and we traveled by bus. Thankfully we left at like midnight, so we slept the whole way and when we got there we went on a tour of a pyramid and stuff like that! It was SO hot, of course and the sun was beating down on us the entire day. Needless to say, I got some sunburn, but only on my chest and part of my back, and my arms. I put sunscreen on my face. Now I have to even the rest of my tan out, thank goodness for spring break! I plan on getting rid of every farmer's tan I've ever had on spring break this year! Although I really hope it won't be like the crazy tan I got last year in Panama City Beach. That was the worst sunburn of my life and the craziest tan lines came out of that. Not this year though! Anyways, we saw pyramids and walked around the city and went to our hotel later on during the day. We went swimming in the pool, and ate dinner in el centro de Oaxaca and spent some time there after dinner as well. I didn't buy a lot. I bought 2 necklaces, some coffee because Oaxaca is known for their excellent coffee - which I am taking home because I bought a bag of it! You're welcome mom and dad! And some Oaxacan chocolate which I have almost finished! It was SO SO good! mmmm. I bought the chocolate vanilla flavor and chocolate coffee flavor. 
After spending 2 days in Oaxaca, we traveled to Mitla as well and visited Hierve el Agua, which is a set of natural rock formations that resembles waterfalls. There are 2 rock shelves or cliffs which rise from the valley below and from which extend nearly white rock formations which look like waterfalls. These formations are created by fresh water springs, whose water is over saturated with calcium carbonate and other minerals. As the water scurries over the cliffs, the excess minerals are deposited in the same manner that stalactites are formed in caves. One of the cliffs contains 2 large artificial pools for swimming as well as a number of small natural pools. - These are pools which we swam in.
When we went back to Mitla after swimming we ate at this little restaurant and it was a buffet with so many foods and desserts! It was really delicious, and then we had to do a scavenger hunt in teams of 4 and then our 5th member was a surprise who we had to find. Each group's 5th member ended up being a chicken! A LIVE CHICKEN! Which we had to haul around without a box the whole scavenger hunt! Talk about annoying and nasty. I hate chickens. And we had to go to different places around Mitla using a little tiny taxi - it was like a little motorcycle taxi where only a few people could fit into it and there wasn't a door, and we had to haul around our chicken with that. It was annoying. We did find a box in town and put our chicken in that and thank goodness because our chicken ended up pooping later on. Thank goodness for that box. Some groups never got boxes and just held their chicken. When our chicken pooped one of my teammates - who was the designated chicken holder, as us girls didn't want to touch that nasty thing - said quite a few choice words to the chicken and about the chicken. 

Here are some of the boys - who are obviously the designated chicken holders - and their chickens that they hauled around the entire scavenger hunt!

After the scavenger hunt, we headed back to the hotel, and the next day we traveled to Puebla and ate dinner there, did a little bit of shopping, and headed back to Queretaro. It was such a great weekend filled with laughs and great sights. I loved being able to hang out with friends and make new friends as well as see God's amazing creations on this trip! 

P.S. There is another blog post just of pictures of this trip!

Hasta Luego! 

Oaxaca Pictures

Pyramids 

Oaxacan Dancers - I posted a video of this on facebook so take a look at that! 

At Hierve el Agua