The National Art Museum is housed in a beautiful building that was originally built in 1911 to house the Secretariat of Communications and Public Works. The picture of me on the left is in the interior courtyard. On the bottom floor the ceilings in all the rooms are either amazing murals or incredibly detailed woodwork. We left the boys at home since they are fairly museumed out and so enjoyed a leisurely pace of looking at the art. We then had the best dinner yet at this place called Los Girasoles (the sunflowers) that was on this adorable plaza. It was kind of expensive (about $25) each, but this was date night :) We had this appetizer that was plantains, pork marinated in a chile sauce, and onions all wrapped in a tortilla, deep fried and covered in a black bean sauce. It sounds weird, but was incredible! |
For dinner I had goat marinated in a chile sauce with black beans and guacamole and the best tortillas that were made with blue corn. Matt had some sort of fish in a bed of the most delicious sauce. It was very creamy and green and all it said was that it was made from epazote which, when we looked it up, is some sort of tea?! It was soooo good! And, lest I forget, we started the meal with bread and the best mole sauce I've ever had.
We topped of the night with our first Uber ride. It was so quick and easy . . . and cheap! We paid about $4 for a 3 1/2 mile ride that took about 16 minutes with traffic. It was cheaper than a taxi and we loved that we didn't have to hassle over cost with a taxi driver.
We topped of the night with our first Uber ride. It was so quick and easy . . . and cheap! We paid about $4 for a 3 1/2 mile ride that took about 16 minutes with traffic. It was cheaper than a taxi and we loved that we didn't have to hassle over cost with a taxi driver.
Some more "isn't that interesting":
- The brooms used everywhere (on the street, at the zoo, in the Latin-American Tower, at Chapultepec Castle) are twigs tied to a stick. They seem to be incredibly effective.
- I'd read in a few blogs that people don't wear shorts in México City and it's true! They do if they are exercising, but anywhere else we saw someone in shorts, they were either American, Canadian, or German with the exception of one man on a tour of Teotihuacán who, along with his wife and teenage daughter, we would have sworn were from Iowa only to find they didn't speak English and were from Brazil!