But I was really excited when Mom came to visit :) It was fun to show her around Mexico City and Cuernavaca and really interesting to have to translate everything into English, which I don't usually do... First we spent two nights in Mexico City at a nice hotel that was only one block away from the main cathedral! The first morning, we made a flat Melissa, and I think the lady at the front desk thought we were crazy when I asked for paper and scissors to make her! We saw about a billion museums too, so we were both happy. We almost walked past the National Art Museum because the building was labeled as the Secretary for Communication or something like that. Good thing Mom made us go inside, or we would have completely missed it, and it had a really good contemporary art collection. It was in this really awesome and old building, but the entire floor on the second floor was covered with stripes of brightly colored and metallic tape! We also saw Diego Rivera's murals at the National Palace and we saw murals by Rivera, Siquieros, and Orozco at the Fine Arts Palace.

Then we took the bus down to Cuernavaca where Mom came to class with me, and we ate at a couple good restaurants and I got to see the Robert Brady Museum. I had been waiting for Mom to come visit, so I could go inside the cathedral complex which I haven't done yet, but it was closed on her last day here!! One day my host-mom, Catalina, invited me and my mom over for dinner, and we ended up talking for another couple of hours about politics and Obama. Here are some pictures with me and my two moms and Flat Melissa:

Me and my host mom

written by  Kimberly on March 25, 2009 from Cuernavaca, Mexico
from the travel blog: Cuernavaca, Mexico
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That looks just like melissa. Nice.

written by  Paige on April 3, 2009

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