We made it through election weekend, despite the hardships placed on us by the Mexican government—namely, they wouldn’t allow any restaurants or stores to sell us beer. We tried to explain to the waiter at the restaurant we visited—the one with the entire back room dedicated to a playground—that it appeared we were about to have an uninterrupted hour in a restaurant setting and surely this was worthy of a couple of cold beers, but even this couldn’t get us served.
San Juan Teotihuacán was a lively place over the weekend, though. The plaza was teeming with people, including a nice lady who tripled her normal weekend take, thanks to us, by renting us battery powered kids cars.
It was also First Communion Sunday for dozens of local kids at the cathedral across the street. The owner of the campground had friends whose daughter received her first sip of wine, and threw a party in the campground to celebrate. The party included a big blow-up bouncy slide. Since this was on a Saturday and the party place it was rented from wouldn’t be returning until Monday to pick it up, we were offered free reign.
Teotihuacán is a nearly 2,000 year old Mesoamerican city with two big drawcards for kids—one, a pyramid to climb up, and two, another pyramid to climb up. Ali and I were here years ago, and were eager to show the kids. It remains, after countless ruins, one of our favorites.
It’s a giant place with a lot of steps to climb, and a lot of sun to contend with. By the end of the day we were all knackered. Ali and I were just happy that we’d finally gotten the kids to some ruins. We’ve been on the coast so long that they were starting to think that the whole world revolves around the beach. Which is only partially true.
This place would make a killer campground.
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The pictures of the kids in the car are priceless. The one with Ouest driving and Lowe with his arm “out the window” cracked me up.
Watch out for those stinging snails.
Wow, your kids drive better cars than I do! Teotihuacán is one of my favorites too, but I am amazed at how few people there are. I remember hundreds of people climbing up and on top.
It was a weekday, so the crowds weren’t too bad. Funny story though, I spotted a kid wearing a Hill-Murray t-shirt while we were climbing the stairs. Hill-Murray was the Catholic high-school right down the road from Tartan, where I went. Talked to his parents for a few minutes. So yeah, even though the crowds weren’t too big, we still ran into people from the neighborhood we grew up in.
Did you know they still do not know what culture lived at Teotihuacán. I believe is is the 2nd oldest archeological site in the Americas, next to Caral in Peru (3000 bc).
Great pics. I had to look up “free reign” because I have always used “free rein”. This was sort of interesting — http://www.dailywritingtips.com/free-rein-or-free-reign/.
Not sure that I’ve used the word reign more than a couple of times in all of my writings, but it does appear you’ve got me on that one. Rein is now entered into my brain, and I will probably be using it much more often now.
I love that kind of stuff. Does that make me a
“wordee”, sort of like a “foodie”?
Beautiful pics of the ruins – it looks so lush!
hardships placed on us by the Mexican government—namely, they wouldn’t allow any restaurants or stores to sell us beer. We tried to explain to the waiter…… The dry weekend was all over the news, but then you never pay any attention to the news, so…… just sayin’
Yes, I can assure you this “news” item would not have entered our household. Not until it was too late anyway.
Apparently the government handed out 10 million free TVs to voters last week. You should have snagged one — not that you need a TV in the bus.
Great photos of the ruins. Is that stone skull original or is it a recreation?
when we stayed at that campground with our kids they had a party that weekend too. i think it is a popular party place. 🙂