Monterrey! It is one of Mexico's most wealthy cities and so it is huge and has a lot to see. The climate is warm and humid (which we love) and some parts look tropical while others look like desert. I forget each time how different Mexico is. Soo many tiendas along the streets with people selling all the time, crazy driving, bright colors. It is so fun to be somewhere different with my best friend. I will remember being tired a lot this trip as we stayed up past midnight every night, but loving the experiences.
We stayed in Hotel Monterrey right in the Macroplaza. The Macroplaza is full of museums, buildings, a man made river, and parks. We spent the first day there exploring. We walked, A LOT, saw some museums, rode in a boat on the Santa Lucia, and finished with watching some native dancing. Jamir insisted we watch since he did it in high school and knew the dances.
I was able to meet Jamir's cousins later for some food at Taqueria Juarez and know more about Jamir's family. He was able to catch up with his best cousin friend from his youth, Israel, which was good for them.
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| Neptune fountain |
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| Jamir and his Indiana Jones hat (an early birthday present) |
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| Government building |
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| Chalk art |
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| The top of Santa Lucia. It creates a circle waterfall where the boat goes around. |
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| Santa Lucia. It is literally a very looong pool. Quite the project. I wanted to swim in it. |
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| Guys hand these out and ask for "donations." |
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| Awesome fountain at the end. |
The first museum was Parque Fundidora. Monterrey used to prosper a lot from making steel. This park was the remains of the steel factory. The pics below are inside the furnace. It was huge and interesting.
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| Globe show. It showed interesting facts about the world |
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| All the pipes to make the steel. They turned it into an extreme adventure with ziplines (it is very high up), but unfortunately only open on weekends. |
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| View from the top of the furnace and parks in background. |
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| Side view of the "Saddle Mountain" |
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| We couldn't find anything good to eat, so we found some really really gross nachos. It needed a picture. Never again :) |
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| Beautiful old buildings. |
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| Some protest going on. Jamir wanted me to join. Like I would know what the heck was going on :) |
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| And the pretty dances outside the museums. |
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| There was some machete throwing which Jamir also did in high school. How high school boys are allowed to throw knives without killing each other is pretty cool. |
More to come...
