Mexico City for the Day

 Yesterday I went to Mexico City for the day with 3 of my friends. It was so much fun! Mexico City is not like Queretaro. It's enormous! I would compare it to NYC. It's like a whole other world with so many people and so much traffic. Yet it is really beautiful with old buildings and cathedrals and monuments. I'm really glad I went, and it is definitely a city worth visiting if you ever have the time to! Here are a bunch of pictures that I took while in Mexico City for the day. The picture above is Catedral Metropolitana and it is very famous in Mexico City.

This is Palacio Nacional where the government offices of Mexico City are located. I believe this is also where the President works? 

Catedral Metropolitana.

The restaurant where we ate. It was on the 7th floor!

My lunch: Enmoladas with mole negro.

little bike taxi thing

inside the catedral metropolitana

SO MANY PEOPLE

Palacio de Bellas artes. This holds some really famous art from Diego Rivera. 

People love to play in the fountains here!

We even took the subway in Mexico City! It reminded me of the subways in NYC

Ice cream! They use powdered milk here to make the ice cream rather than regular milk. That's why it tastes different.

Angel de la independencia

Palacio Nacional at night time

I had a really great time in Mexico City. We saw so many amazing things and it is such a beautiful city! The bus ride to and from Mexico city wasn't bad either. It was like a greyhound bus but really nice which little individual tv's attached to each seat so we could watch movies and stuff. And there was lot of leg room and foot rests and they even gave us some snacks! And it was quite cheap too! I definitely wouldn't mind going to Mexico City again. It was great and I did some shopping too and the stuff I bought there was cheaper than what they sell it for here in Queretaro. Like I said before, Mexico City is like a whole other world. It's like NYC with so many people all the time and a lot of traffic all of the time! Also, people use their car horns all the time too! You know how you learn that the car horn is only to acknowledge someone and say "hi"? well, not here. It's the complete opposite! People are very impatient in their cars and beep their horn all the time. People are always trying to get to their destination as fast as possible which means a lot of people weave in and out of lanes trying to pass people left and right, and it doesn't help that the roads in the city center are bricks so of course there aren't lane lines so it's basically like you drive wherever your car can fit. It's nuts! I wouldn't ever like to drive here! People try to squeeze in small spaces and get ahead of buses and buses try to get ahead of cars and people are beeping their horns and brake really hard. And not very many people use their seat belts here either. Not to mention, I never see any speed limit signs! It's so weird! So I have no idea if people just go however fast they want? It's not like you can go very fast around Mexico City anyways because of all the people and traffic. But still. People drive like maniacs in Mexico City as well as in Queretaro! It makes driving in the US look so tame! Other than my cold that I have - at least I hope it's a cold- I've been well and enjoying life! The first set of partials are over and I already found out that I got a 100% in the first partial of my Psychology & leadership class and a 98% in the first partial of my Cinema class. (Partials are like marking periods more or less and there are 3 of them that make up one semester). 

Other than that, nothing new has happened besides the fact that I have my free trial month of netflix and have been using that almost every day! It's great! 

Hasta Luego!