Long weekend

This weekend has felt like a long, lazy one even though I had to work the holiday. Yesterday we stayed in and puttered about for much of the day. Mat looked for prairie land online and I started playing with my bits of broken glass I collected on our walks on the tracks. In the afternoon we went to the museo de photographia in the old Franciscan monastery. We went to three different exhibits before we found the actual photographs, but it was interesting and the courtyards and small rooms were so beautiful.

Today we got up in no rush, ate a couple tamales and walked to the bus station to go to Tula. I've been dying to see pyramids while here and they have an important archealogical site. I'm always a little disappointed when I visit pyramids here. I hope to find huge, huge staircases, but they're usually fairly small deteriorated mounds. I also expect to find this aura of sacredness, but I didn't.

After wandering about the ruins, we still had several hours to kill. We found an old cathedral and wandered about. Nuns and monks really knew how to design a home. Walking around there is a sense of security, freedom and mystery there architecture these days rarely accomplishes. Sadly, part of the cathedral is now a market, which I know has never made Jesus happy.

Another surprise we found was that Tula is renovating it's center to be car-free. It was a pleasure to walk down quite boulevards and see newly painted buildings. We hope that they plan on cleaning up their river as well. It looks like summer floods made it quite the smelly garbage heap.

I feelt that the theme of todays trip was a feeling of the sacred mixed up with the dirt, stench and greed of reality. I have no complaints.