Sunday, January 15, 2006

Calixtlahuaca y Huamango

I know...It may seem as though I sneezed, but those are names of Zonas Arqueologicas. They are areas where there are ruins dating back to 900 AD. Karin and I went there on saturday . There were very interesting. We went to two places, one was about an hour and a half north and the other was just ouside the city of Toluca.

The first place was fairly small, free, and there wern't very many people there. It was at the top of a mountain/hill and you could look down into the valleys in just about every direction. there were several platforms where homes once stood and they were all at different levels, the higher the platform, the higher status you were. There was an alter for worship and an alter for sacrifices. Here is a pic of me sitting on top of the sacrifical altar.


The second place we went to was a little bigger and a little more extravagant. This is a picture of me entering a temple for a rain God. It was a big cylinder like structure with several levels where rain was either ran off or held in reservoirs. The other Pic is a view of the whole thing.

Then there was another area about 100 yards away where there was an alter and a large stone cruifix where again they had sacrifices. There is another pic of Karin sitting on it.

Karin gets food coupons from her work everytime she gets paid and we can use them at restraunts and stores affiliated with Walmart. There is Walmart and Sam's club, but also Vips and El Porton which are like Denny's and also my favorite place and where we went for lunch California Restraunt (remember, the buffet with beer included). I only had thee Corona's because we had some shopping to do. I could have sat there all day. Then we went to Walmart for shopping where we meet some Americans. There was a girl and her mother. The girl moved to Mexico about 3 years ago from the south (they had drawls) to learn spanish and ended up getting married. She told us about a good place to work teaching english where she had worked for 2 years. I'm going to check it out this week, supposedly you don't need a green card. Then home for football. It was a busy day, I was tired mostly because I am used to sitting around all day watching TV and doing Sudoku puzzles.

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