There She Goes…

Shameless plug for you to read this entire blog post….full story after a very important PSA!

The Turibus: While hop on and hop off buses are great in theory, you pay a nominal price (160 pesos or ~$8 USD) for one full day of travel to different parts of the city. We were able to go to the Basilica quite easily. But in reality, you spend an inordinate amount of time sitting on the bus or waiting for the next bus to arrive. It took us 2 hours of transit time to go 3.5 miles when we headed out for lunch. It got so bad we hopped off the bus for good preferring the ease and convenience of Uber. If I had scissors at that moment, I would have shredded my ticket wristband. No more turibus. Uber all the way!

Now for today’s recap (you still don’t get the backstory of how my MOTHER got a phone number..shameless hook #2). Today started off with a trip to the Basilica de Guadalupe. The real short version of the story is that some dude saw Jesus’ mother on a hillside. She told him to have a chapel built. He came back and told the Bishop and as all skeptical people do, the Bishop asked for proof. So the kid goes back and tells the Lady “homeboy doesn’t believe me.” She finds a way to make them believe by imprinting her image on his tilma (which from what I can gather is a male dress or muumuu equivalent). That’s what we saw today, the image imprinted and extremely vibrant. Video on the moving walkway because somos turistas after all.

Also, I personally have never seen a dark skinned Lady of Guadalupe. Now you have too.

After the Basílica, we came back to the hotel to regroup and took our infamous 3 hour turibus tour to find Italian food. After lunch, I told Mom we were taking an Uber. And Omar picked us up (in the Uber people!). But Mom talked to him about our plans to visit the pyramids and he said he’d drive us there for $70 USD. And he even would go up with us and spend the day and come back when we were done. I think he was enticed by the La Gruta which is an underground grotto you can eat it! Win win for all involved!! Omar gave Mom his number and all 3 of us are going to the pyramids of Teotihuacan on Thursday because ya somos amigos!

In case we die, Omar works for Uber and drives a Ford Figo.