Vacacion Numero Dos: Cuetzalan

This is a tad late. I had been putting off posting but then one of my lovely sisters chastised me so I thought I better get on it! Haha. Last weekend we got four days off so we went on our first long-ish vacation. To a little town called Cuetzalan (And that's CuetZAlan, not CUETzalan... pronunciation is everything hahaha. Or so the locals tell us). Anyway, it's this little city WAY up in the mountains. We took a two hour bus to Puebla, then another three and a half hour bus to Cuetzalan. Luckily none of us got car sick on the long windy road, but a poor little child definitely threw up in his sweatshirt. Yum.

I didn't take a lot of pictures on this vacation because I was afraid my batteries were going to run out, plus it's a huge pain to have six girls stopping to take pictures of everything haha. But here are some that I did take of the city! It's BEAUTIFUL.

Us with just one of the spectacular views.

The gazebo in the centro.

La catedral (The cathedral)!

This city was seriously one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It was like stepping back in time 150 years. We saw tons of little teeny indigenous women walking around barefoot... so cool. And the feeling of the city was just overall magical. Haha I hate to use that term because every time we said anything about Cuetzalan before going people told us, "Oh, it's a magical place." "So magical." "It's like magic." We were a little skeptical about all this magic talk. But it really was! It would be so cool to retire there.

So the first day we just wandered around, found a cheap hotel, and saw the city. Saturday, though... Saturday was bomb.com.

We found this deal where each of you pay like $40 and you go on an all day guided adventure! I didn't get a lot of pictures, so you'll have to imagine. Or go creep on my Facebook. Both are good options. Anyway, first we explored some caves! Those were pretty cool. Satan lives in one of them, or so said our guide. So we had to call our souls back to us after leaving otherwise they would have stayed there! Hahaha. And then another one went on for kilometers and kilometers so we explored for about an hour and a half maybe and then moved on. But it was way awesome. Climbing, crawling, jumping through a pitch black cave like 100 feet underground. Way fun. After that we went to see some waterfalls! The water was freezing cold, but you can bet your little hiney that I swam in that water! I wish I had a picture ... Look on Facebook! After that we hiked up to another waterfall and RAPELLED DOWN IT! I went first so I didn't get any pictures, but here's Bonnie at the bottom! It was way fun.

The waterfall

Bon Bon.

Our guide, Jesus. Or Chucho. Or Mexican Adam Sandler. Take your pick :)

Sara's ropes got all twisty! So the guy at the top had to come down and help her. Scary!

And then he climbed solo all the way up. What a man.

It was a blast! After this we ate dinner, went to our hostel, which was run by little indigenous women, showered in more freezing cold water, and went to sleep!

The next day it was pouring, but we went to the centro and explored the market for a while until we were way too cold and wet, went back to our hostel, and just played card games for a few hours. It was fun! And Monday we went back home.

A quick blurb about our guide though. He was so funny! He was a good guide, very polite, took care of us, the whole thing. We liked him. And then on Monday morning when we were leaving we ran into him on the street. And he was totally wasted! Funniest thing of my life. He kept trying to talk to us in English and making no sense and saying hilarious things. Like "You bad. Me happy!" And "Estoy.... borracho." (I'm drunk). Really? I never would have guessed. Then he told us he wanted to kiss us all on the cheek to say goodbye. Which was fine. Except I'm 99% sure he tried to go for Mandy's mouth. Hahaha. Such a good end to our vacation.

So yeah that was it! Super fun, I loved it all, you should go!

Hope all is well back in the States! Adios!