Yesterday was a fun day for mom and I! We woke up kinda early and started out our adventurous day. We took a bus to a little terminal where we bought tickets to go to Tequila! We then took a second class bus for about an hour to the little town of Tequila where, as you can guess, tequila is made. We got off the bus and I had no idea what we were supposed to do but I just wanted to find a factory where we could get a tour. It was really different just being with my mom who doesn't speak Spanish because I knew I had to do all the talking and figuring stuff out. We took a short ride in a taxi to the center of the town where the driver told us in his crazy fast Spanish that we could find someone to give us a tour. We encountered a very busy plaza where there were "ranchers" on dancing horses accompanied by a live mariachi band! I believe it was part of the celebration of the Revolution Day (the Mexican Revolution started on November 20, 1910 so they were celebrating the bicentennial). They were really cool so we had to stop and watch for a little while.
Then we continued down a random road with a bunch of shops and at the end we found the Jose Cuervo tequila factory! We found the ticket stand for the tours and bought our tickets for the tour, but we had two hours to wait for the English version so we walked around the big building that had a souvenir shop, restaurant, and lots of things to look at. We sat down and had some great guacamole and margaritas! They were delicious. :) We did a lot of people watching there too, of course-haha. We looked around the gift shop too but lots of the things for sale were pretty expensive. When it was our turn, we went and sat down in the little theater area where the tours began. We got a tour of the factory where all the Jose Cuervo tequila is made in the state of Jalisco. There are five states total in Mexico that produce tequila though. It was really interesting and had some weird odors in the factory. We got to taste some tequila that was 120 proof (55% alcohol) and I thought we were drinking straight rubbing alcohol it burned so badly! There were other opportunities to taste other stages of tequila but I passed. :) I'm not a very big fan of the flavor. After the tour, we walked the 4 or 5 blocks back to the bus station and waited for our bus. The bus ride back was very tiring but I didn't get the chance to sleep because I had a young guy that was very interested in me and decided to keep staring at me-haha. It was pretty funny because we were both on the same bus for about and hour and a half and when we got back to the terminal, we all took the same city bus to get back to our house. I couldn't handle it, it was so funny!
We got back to our houses and hung out for a while and I did some homework while mom was chattin' on the computer to her honey. :P We figured out our plans for the evening and we all got ready. We decided to make a surprise stop at David's restaurant for dinner so mom, Allison, and I took a taxi there and Jenny and Tara met us there. It was so delicious and mom really liked it too. :) David was really surprised as well! After dinner, we all squeezed into a taxi and went to the main avenue for the night life called Chapultepec. We came across a live band in the street that was playing salsa music so we stopped and listened for a while. We kept walking to try to find a salsa bar, but came across a market with some jewelry and tother things instead. :) So of course we had to stop at look! We spent about an hour there and by the time we were done, we didn't know where to go next and some of the bars were already closing and we were getting tired. I was already sick of walking around and so was mom so we just decided to grab a taxi home and call it a night. It was semi-unsuccessful, but that's ok! :) It was a fun day overall.
-Whitney
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