Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe - Sept 2011

This was a wonderful trip my two housemates and I took the first week I was here.

Zocalo Visit - September 2011

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Santa Fe General Sept 2011

Here are some pics from the first month or so that I was here. Click on the picture to view more.

Santa Fe House

Pictures of my house in Santa Fe (just click to see them all).

Guardaria Pastorella 2011

Click on the picture to see some more of the kids at their pastorella Dec 16, 2011

Guardaria Pastorella 2011

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Christmas Break Catchup 2

Emma (on right), with her sister and mom in middle crammed in the backseat (with me) for our Teotihuacan adventure.

View from the Temple of the Moon

Bottom of the larger Pyramid

Another day we went to Teotihuacan, the Mexican pyramids. These were built pre-Mayan and have been largely reconstructed.  We were told before we got there that we would have to go up 500 steps, but thankfully, I do not think that there were that many between the two pyramids we scaled.  The place was huge and spacious.  I didn't realize it till after, but it was odd (wonderful) to be in a large, open space like that.  We were definitely out of the city. We very thankful for our driver that day, for what would have taken us six hours round-trip just in transport by bus/metro, took us about three round-trip with the car.  Thank you Padre Tonio for the car and Juan for driving us!

Christmas Catchup

Close-up of the baptismal font top in the National Cathedral.

A little Christmas catchup...

One of the sanctuaries in the National Cathedral (there are a few)

National Cathedral

Emma's family arrived in Santa Fe Christmas Day.  During a nice dinner at our house, surrounded by expected, and unexpected, friends, we learned that one the Jesuit priests took it upon himself to get her family a chauffeur to take them wherever they wanted to go for the week.  We saw him go outside, and the next moment he was sticking his head in the door wanting to know what time we wanted to be picked up in the morning!  Wow!  So, we spent the first day in the city taking her family around to some of the sights there: the National Cathedral, the outside of the Palacio National, shopping in the square, and dinner in a restaurant overlooking the Zocolo at night.  It was lovely. Some of the sights were set up just for the holidays, such as the temporary (though very large) ice skating rink, snowman building, and snow fighting tents.  It was quite fun to watch!

Zocolo decorated buildings

Zocolo at night (Palacio National in back, skating rink in the middle, decorated buildings on the sides)