Day 85, Week 13

Sunday, November 14

On Sunday we tried to wake up early so that we could go to Guanajuato for the Bicentennial Exposition. It was a a bunch of buildings that were dedicated to showing different aspects of the history and culture of Mexico. There was live music playing all the time and lots of food vendors too. We stood in line for an hour and a half to get into the first building which had pictures of the art all through the history of Mexico and some other portrayals of what the English people thought of the Americans. It was really different and I didn't get that into it until we went to the lower level and they had the different types of clothes and things of several of the indigenous tribes of Mexico. That's what I really liked! There were so many beautiful, colorful dresses and the types of baskets, weapons, and masks too.

After that building, we didn't really want to wait in many other lines, so we just walked around for a little while listening to the music and having some snacks. We were trying to find a vendor that sold ice cream inside the shell of its corresponding fruit. We had seen other people walking around with them so I was destined to find it. I finally did and bought a coconut one that was delicious! I kept the shell and I am planning to do some kind of craft with it [do I sound like Greta? :P]. We went into other buildings that were for food; typical family styles, cultural events, and foods of all the Latin American countries. There were dancing fountains in the middle of the whole expo that played every couple hours too. We got a chance to dress up like people from the revolution era and take old time pictures in front of a train. It was so funny and a good time too!

We stayed at the expo for most of the day until it got dark and then we drove back to Leon. Marco told us about these Triple Cheese Pesto Pizzas that he makes and he really likes to cook so we told him we wanted them for dinner! We went back to the house to see what we needed and then went to a grocery store. Of course, we spent about a half hour in the grocery store getting everything we needed and them some! We got ingredients to make micheladas too which is made of beer, lime juice, maggy sauce which is like worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, chili salsa, powdered chili salsa, and salt. I like to call them the bloody mary of Mexico. We finally got everything and went back to the house to make it all. We each helped make some part of the pizzas and got to top our own. We had a wonderful dinner and Marco's roommate Danny also joined us. It was a good time and I'm so glad we got the opportunity to stay with him! We were going to watch a movie, but after an hour of trying to decide which movie to watch and that failing, we just ended up going to bed.