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Mexico City
January, 2009

With all the travel I’ve done in the last three weeks, I still haven’t had a chance to post most of the photos. I went to Mexico City for the first week of January with Mike, my parents, my brother Paul, and my brother’s family.

As I mentioned earlier, the trip didn’t turn out quite the way we’d hoped, because almost all of us came down with a flu that had swept through our family reunion the week before. Most of our plans got canceled during our week in Mexico, including an outing to the Saturday market, a private tour of the pyramids, and Mike’s birthday weekend in Cancun.

Despite all the sickness and cancellations, we still had a fantastic time with my family. It’s rare that all of us spend time together like this, so I loved even the quiet moments of reading books with the kids.

We didn’t get to see much of the city from beyond our car, but I did get a chance to do some drive-by shooting.

I found a giant margarita the first night.

We stayed in a business district, but even there we found lots of vivid colors.

My dad and I were sitting outside at Starbucks as we watched this guy sitting on a truck, watering the plants in the median. A car pulled up next to the truck and he sprayed the water right over it.

One day when Mike, my mom, my brother, and my nephew were sick, my dad and I took a long walk around the neighborhood. We didn’t see much on our walk, but I really enjoyed spending time with Dad.

I was in awe of the vivid colors everywhere.

Mom tried to take a sly photo of these scary military guys. Unfortunately she forgot to turn the flash off!

Another view of scary military dudes from our taxi. You can see Mike in the rear view mirror.

My mom and brother

I need coffee everyday, but only frou-frou lattes. Mike cracked me up with his composition of this pic!

Paul, Mom, and me