Mexico Day 4

Xochimilco - is a place where lots of the locals go to have parties. In this little town you go and rent a boat and cruise down the canals in these colorful boats (if you are splurging you would decorate your boat with colorful flowers).

we asked our boat man how many boats there are there and he told us thousands - the day we were there it was a pretty quiet day.

You coast down the river and then people come up to your boat in their boats and try to sell you things - like blankets . . .

or flowers . . .

or mariachi bands will play music for you.

We bought roasted corn from this woman

These two guys played us a song -

There was interesting stuff along the riverbanks - little shrines -

beautiful scenery

pretty houses

and not so pretty -

We made a few stops along the way - one was at a little nursery that had gorgeous flowers.

Another little nursery specialized in bonsai trees. I thought that was pretty random. But Mexico is full of random - Stuff like this:

There were dolls and stuffed animals all nailed into the trees in this grove. What the heck?! We got a good laugh out of that one. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful way to spend it.

That took up our morning and then for the afternoon we went to this pretty colonial town of Coyoacan -

We went through the cathedral in town square and watched a wedding taking place.

It was a very pretty fairly quiet town for Mexico,

however - just like everywhere we were in the City there were tons of cops. All over. And the thing that I really couldn't get over is they ALL had little machine guns and wore bullet proof vests - I kept thinking how hot it must be for them in their dark uniforms and those thick bullet proof vests. Tanner said he's never notices that - funny huh?

Of course we went to the market there too -

Even though the stuff sold at the market started to sort of repeat I still loved all the colors you would see

and it was a fun place to people watch.

My guys hamming it up -

Goofing with the boys -

outside the cathedral