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So this weekend has been a bit hectic!
Lizzie and I set off on the bus to Cuernavaca straight after our class on Friday (only $15!, that´s like, 75p for and hour and a half´s journey!), and got there for about half one. After leaping off the bus into the most hairy scary market there ever was, grabbing a taxi and landing in the centre by the zocalo, we then set off on a mega trek to find a hostel. After searching for the first one in the guide book, asking a couple of people etc. and finally knocking on the door, we found out that it wasn´t actually a hostel after all, so we had to trek all the way back into the centre to find a hotel. We ended up staying at the Hotel Colonial, room for 4 for a fiver each, clean etc. and dead near the centre.
After de-sweating, we set out to find FOOD! We came across a really nice bar restaurant (again in the lonely planet guide) called something los arcos, nice food, quite cheap, and a pound for a corona. Nice. We sat there and had a leisurely lunch laughing at all the blatenly touristy americans with their bumbags, then set off round the shops. Shops in Mexico are full of really lairy colourful things that are really cheap quality. We didn´t buy anything.
We headed back to the hotel for a nap after getting some chiles and tequila for ed´s bday present, and napped.
About 6ish, we got a phone call from Kerry, and we set out to try and find her in the chaos of the main plaza, took her back to the hotel, talked loads about what we had been up to, and then went for dinner. We went back to the same place, and just as we were leaving at about 9, a band started up, well cool music! So after eating some wierd grilled banana concotion at a street stall, we all went back to the bar for a dance. Next, ed rang us to say he was by macdonalds, and I ran over and found him, and kerry danced with some tour guide while lizzie was kidnapped by a group of guys who couldn´t dance and made to tell them all about herself.
We finally crawled back home after midnight when the band finished, and celebrated ed´s bday by making him drink a (big) tequila shot. He felt sick anyway, and we´ve been told it settles your stomach, so it was fine!
We went to sleep, and about 7 in the morning, we got a call from angie and sarah saying they had landed in our street, so lizzie ran out in her pjs to get them, and we all lay 3 in a bed for a hour nattering etc. When we finally got round to getting up, we engineered it so that ed was last in the bathroom, and lizzie angie and kerry legged it out to get a bday cake.
Sarah and I managed to lie really well as ed got more and more annoyed that they were wasting time, and when they finally knocked on the door with the cake, he was made up! The candles nearly set the box on fire though. Oops.
After the cake, we caught a bus to Taxco, land of silver, it took about 90 mins, and I was sat next to some 28yr old lawyer guy who was doing a masters degree, who took great delight in asking me every possible thing about England and correcting me on my grammar all the way through. But he was impressed that all the white people on the bus were helping mexican kids and offered to put us up in his family´s hotel on the cheap if we decided to stay the night in Taxco.
We looked round the markets, and the torture museum, and had lunch in a cafe on top of a roof with amazing views of the square and the whole town. Then we looked round the cathedral and spent 20 mins laughing at one of those mimey people dressed up as a golden cowboy.
After that, we bussed it to a cable car place and journeyed up the mountain to a really posh hotel (which none of us could ever afford) and spent 40 mins looking around and debating whether we could get away with swimming in the pool in our underwear.
We headed back to cuernavaca at about 7 after a final look at the silver markets, and after realising that all the busses back to tepoztlan had left, we caught a couple of taxis instead.
We got to tepo at about 10 ish, and then trekked around asking in several hotels which were all full. We found one in the end, tenner each for the night and 3 squid for brekkie, and we had a really random meal in a little cafe place at about 11pm with the hotel owners and two really old ladies who cooked. We then sat out in an igloo that was built in the hotel garden, with, of course, some tequila to celebrate Ed´s birthday, and had much fun tripping over the mega hammock and trying not to make loads of noise.
In the morning, we had quesadillas and preparadas (like quesadillas but with no cheese) and the nicest coffee I have ever drunk. We chatted loads with the hotel owner who was in the marines and was on leave for 6 months, and asked how to get to the infamous tepozteco.
The tepozteco is like, a tiny pyramid on top of a cliff. And apparetly you can climb up the mountain. In flip flops too. Only half of our group had trainers, so it took us just over an hour of scrabbling up boulders american tourists called dave and his friend mario beofre we finally reached the top. We climbed the pyramid too (my god) and sat on the edge (I´m glad I´m not afraid of heights, as there was a real risk of falling and breaking every bone in my body) for 30 mins, then marched back down again. We vacated the hotel (a bit late) and then had a look around the market in town, before ice cream at the´better-than-nichols-could-ever-be tepoznieves´. Ed left, and lizzie and I took the girls to show them round the camp, before a sneaky swim in the pool.
When angie sarah and kerry tried to leave the camp though, the gate was locked, and after ringing the bell many times and trekkinng round looking for a gardener and debating using a ladder we found to climb over, we finally managed to break them out of there. But, by that time, Kerry had missed her bus, so she stayed in our cabin overnight, and left the next morining.
And that concludes our mega weekend.
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