Mexico Day 2

We started out the day with breakfast with the Quakers. Upon arriving at the Quaker hostel the day before, (our mothers were happier we were staying with them) we found out they did a 15 peso desayuno. It was fruit cereal, egg with zucchini and water or coffee. We ate with the Quakers(Hippy Gringos and a few Mexicanos...good discussion) and then took off for the metro. We arrived at the stop for the museo anthopological and then accidentally went the wrong way. We turned around, asked for directions and made it to the Anthropology Museum.
The Anthropology museum in Mexico City has captured my imagination since I was a kid in Vernal. The museum was huge. I'm sure I could go back and still learn just as I did the half-day we were there. There's 23 rooms in the museum. We walked in about half of them. Kell bought a English audio guide which was worthless and I piggybacked onto a tour. We saw so many amazing pieces. It was the first time I ever experienced museum overload between the pieces, the stories, and it all...it blew my mind. The Aztec and Mayan rooms? Phenomenal. Oh yeah, I want to go back.
Anyway, we left at about 2 and got lunch by the "lake." I had an avacado torta (sandwich) which was just so-so. Afterwards, we headed to the Basilica a Guadalupe. Talk about a crazy ol' time. We got there in mid-day (one of the few days it was hot!) and our jaws dropped. There were 5 different churches dedicated to the Virgin; the new church, the old church, a little church on the spot where Juan Diego had the vision and another one that we never went down to see. All of this is on a hill overlooking part of the city. We went into the old church (which had visible earthquake damage) and then walked up the hill to the church which was on the spot where Juan Diego claimed to see the Virgin. In that church, I really liked the murals on the walls. Anyway, before we left, we walked up to the new church to see the mantle where the image appeared. Interesting, it looked just like a 17th Century religious painting. That being said, I'm really glad we went there.
Afterwards, we decided to walk to the plaza de tres culturas. While walking, we realized that we were walking in a part of town that we probably shouldn't be walking in. We found a bus and went to the plaza which was amongst housing developments. It was a little sketchy, but in reality--parts of DC are much more run down. We looked around, and then jumped on a bus and jumped back off at a metro station. We went back to the hostel and Kelli took her clothes to the laundromat and then had dinner and licuados de leche.