My Quest in Querétaro: El Cerrito

I know I just wrote a post like yesterday, but there's just so much that happened between then and now! Today I went to el Cerrito with a group of my friends.

According to wikipedia: El Cerrito was an important political and religious center, which operated as a regulator of the regional population. Construction period: 300 BC to 1500 AD (there were 3 stages of construction. It was used as a place of worship too by cultures like Chupicaro, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Chichimeca, Otomi, and Tarascan at times as late as 1632. El Cerrito worked as a regional political and religious center of great regional importance, from 400 to 1500 of the Christian era. Eventually, El Cerrito became a sacred space or sanctuary. The buildings and shrines around the pyramid are expressions of religious activities around the worship of a female deity, almost certainly the Old Mother or Mother of the gods. El Cerrito is one of the most important sites of the Toltec world, a place where Tollan or links to the great lords and warriors of the region legitimized.

After visiting el Cerrito, we ate lunch in El Centro. The cool part is how we got there. So, there was a group of like 15 of us and one of the people that was with us was lived in El Centro and had a pick up truck, so he drove us all to El Centro. Most of us got in back of the pick up truck and then the rest of us squeezed in the actual truck part. Yes, that's illegal in the U.S. but here, people do that and it's like normal. People just cram into vehicles and don't really think that much of it. It was kind of fun actually :)
For lunch, I had a torta con pollo, which was very good, and then we had ice cream and kind of walked around. After that, we all crammed back into the back end of the truck and he drove us back to the school and from there we went our separate ways.
It was a lot of fun! and I'm really glad that I got to hang out with a bunch of people today and speak in spanish basically the entire time! And it's always encouraging to hear that your spanish is good when you are talking with other internationals and with people who's native language is Spanish. That encourages me all the more to just keep speaking in Spanish. :)