Blood, Sweat, and a Pyramid

Last week a couple of us visted the town of Tepoztlán, about 45 minutes from Cuernavaca.  The town itself has its own rich culture, but the main draw is the pyramid of Tepozteco which sits on top of a mountian ridge 2,000 vertical feet above the city.

The pyramid is on top of this ridge.

We made the climb in 31 minutes.  The pyramid itself is not very impressive, but the view from the top is incredible.

México vs USA

Last night Mexico played the US in the final round of the Gold Cup tournament, so we decided to go watch along with everyone else in the zócalo where they have a massive screen set up for football games and movie nights.  I don´t follow soccer much at all, but how often do you get a chance to route for your own team in a foreign country? 

During the second half it started to rain whcih messed up the satalite reception, which finally cut-out with about ten minutes to go and everyone ran for shelter as lightning moved in.  By that time the US has given up a two goal lead and was down 4-2 so the game was as good as over.

La Fiesta de San Antonio

Yesterday we visted La Fiesta de San Antonio which takes place every year (one local told me for the past 400 years) in the barrio of, apropraitely, San Antón here in Cuernavaca. The day-long celebration consists of about half a mile of amusment park rides, tiendas, fireworks and revelers. Young people also give twelve coins and pray to San Guadalupe to meet their soul mates at the church. The evening culminates in a giant close-and-personal pyrotecnic display and dancing. Last night we got the first significant rainfall in my nearly 4 weeks here, not that anyone let that snuff out the festivities.

A quick explination for why the photos might look a little off: my computer is probably dead until I get back to Minneapolis, so these are all straight out of camera JPG files.