Sunday Morning rain is falling

No..not really...it's from a Maroon 5 song! Duh! Haha, kidding =)

But seriously, yesterday was SO much fun! So a couple of us planned on Saturday to go to Hierve del Agua. It was a pretty suddenly planned trip thus we didn't have a chance to publicize this trip to everyone, and I'm kind of glad we didn't..you'll know why ;)

So, Sunday morning, I meet with Trieu, John & Judy (the couple on this trip), Joaquin, Ivan, and Andy to go to Hierve del Agua. It's s'posed to be one of those "you gotta visit places" here so I was pretty excited! But, since it's so far, we need to take a colectivo, which are like taxis that take you to specific places for a cheaper price because they take a lot of people at once, to Mitla, and then take another one to Hierve. So, we all wait at Mercado de Albastos to wait for these colectivos. But, it was taking a while to wait...and so finally, we find one car that can take us there, but there are 8 of us. The driver says he can take ALL 8 of us, so we decided to go since it took so long just for one to come. It was QUITE the experience fitting 8 people in a small car and may I remind you that there are 6 guys. John and Judy sit in the front, and so I'm stuck in the back with 5 guys! LOL! SO basically, 4 guys sat on the seat and I sat on Andy and then Ivan (who's NOT a small person), lies on top of us...including me and my RIGHT LEG. It was SO squished that Ivan's legs were sticking out the window and my head was stuck out the window because I couldn't get them to fit in...finally though, I was able to put my head inside. I felt bad because I was sitting on Andy's diaphragm so everytime he laughed, I thought he was going to pass out or something. Haha. It was a good 40 minute ride there and when we got out, all of us were limping. HAHA!! Anyways, then we took this truck thing that took us to Hierve and that was another good 50 minute ride. When we got there, the driver actually gave us a personal tour which was cool. Apparently, Hierve del Agua is like these rocks that are calcified that kind of look like a waterfall. There is water though spewing out FROM the inside of the rocks which is cool. It was beautiful though...the hills, the nature, just everything! Some of the guys went swimming. The walk was pretty dangerous I felt because it was so rocky. The steps were SO steep too. Climbing up was annoying! It was a good workout though. My thighs are sore! Actually, my whole BODY is sore, and it was so hard to stay awake in class today. Hehe. Anyways, here are some shots from yesterday!

yep. =)

Then, anoche (at night), there was a special dinner thing at John's house because his homestay brother or something is a chef or this pretty pricey restaurant. So a lot of us gathered at his house to eat tlayudas (a giant tortilla with frijoles, quesillo, and other stuff you can add), or garnachas (don't really know what that is..lol). It was a good mingling time except for the fact that my contacts were making my eyes hurt so bad :(

Anyways, good day yesterday! :)

This week is Dia de Los Muertos celebration and I'm SO excited for it!! :D YES!!!!!!!!!! I should have a good post for that too! We are apparently going to build an altar so that should be really fun! Then, it's one more week before PUERTO ESCONDIDO (aka paradise)!

I'm also going to be at Hospital Civil this week! YES!!! :)

Excited!!

Await for a good post and great pictures soon!