Mexico Day 2

The first thing we realized when we left our hotel to explore the sights of downtown Mexico Wednesday morning - is that crossing the many lanes of traffic is like playing "Frogger". People dash across a few lanes - then stop in the middle of the street - with cars whizzing by them at 40 mph - until they see an opening to dash across a little farther without getting run over - trust me - this picture I tried to get just doesn't do the experience justice.

"Frogger" - crossing the streets in Mexico

Right down from our hotel is this Angel statue - it is the "Angel of Independence" and it is like their Statue of Liberty -

she's very beautiful

Downtown Mexico is an interesting mix of old and new -

Next we went to the "Towre Latino Americano". It is the tallest building in Latin America.

It took quite some time to convince John to go up in the elevators because he was getting claustrophobic just watching the people squish into them. Tanner used his excellent spanish to convince someone to let us go up in the elevator with just the 4 of us. John was pretty ticked when he found out once we got up that far we had to get into an even smaller elevator to get to the very top lookout here:

Mexico City just stretches on as far as the eye can see - it is pretty amazing. It is a city of 30 million people - the only city with a bigger population is Tokyo.

I was pretty impressed Tanner talked his Dad up here. Tanner didn't want any of us to miss a thing in Mexico - he was a great tour guide.

We went thru an enormous cathedral - (which I didn't get a good picture of) and then we went through a torture museum and walked along more of the streets of Mexico City before the day was over.

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After we got cleaned up a bit we went to the Polanco district - a very upscale area with beautiful houses.

Then we took a break from spicy Mexican food and ate at a French restaurant. The desserts were amazing . . .

This photo has special meaning to us - it was pretty funny - but you had to be there.

"This is AWESOME"