Well everyone here´s an update from your friendly neighborhood Aaron Dean. Wednesday, as I am sure Ken and Debbie have made perfectly clear was a great day to experience Mexican culture and people, as well as the city of Mexico City. However, the best part of the day for me was our after dinner experience. First, to understand this you must understand dinner. For dinner we ate a delicious meal at The House of Tiles, which is a beautiful restaurant near the center of Mexico City. Dinner was late so we were tired and starving by the time we ate it. Following dinner we were going to take a taxi and bus to a neighborhood called Coyoacan for dessert and coffee. However, we decided to take the metro instead. I´m sure you´ll understand what the metro was like by other posts on here and some of the videos.
Needless to say by the time we made it to Coyoacan we were very ready for our coffee and our dessert. This made our dessert and our coffee that much more amazing i´m sure. We had some very delicious coffee, called Cappuchimoka at one of the many coffee shops in Coyoacan. From there we went to a churro stand to get what might be the best dessert i´ve had in quite some time. A churro for those who don´t know is a cinnamon covered pastry that is stuffed with sauce of whatever flavor you want, anything from caramel (the most delicious) to chocolate (also delicious) to strawberry or peach (also delicious). It was one of the most delicious nights that i´ve experienced in a long long time, or will for some time to come.
Following our delicious churros and our delicious coffee, we walked around the neighborhood for some time. This neighborhood is like the Mexico City version of NYC's Greenwich Village. There are lots of people around at night, enjoying their coffee and churros and enjoying a good time. Finally we went to a Catholic Church to see what that was like. We caught them right as they were taking communion. It was a very interesting experience. We saw their statues and their gold covered facades. It was very strange. There were statues of mary, lots of statues of Jesus on the cross, and a couple of him dead in a grave, but there were none of Christ risen from the dead. They seem to have forgotten the most important part of the gospel message.
-Aaron Dean
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