Later Earlier

The highway to Puebla sans bandit!/
Looking back towards México DF/
Convento San Gabriel, Cholula/
Lunch!/
Cafés around the Zócalo/
Nuestra Señora de los Remedios church/
Walking up to the church/
Sunday service/
Callejón de los Sapos (Alley of the toads!)/
Puebla's El Zócalo/
Just dancing... you know.../
And just pondering.../
Breakfast table/
Clearly too early for Dan!/
Ginormous room key... the only one with the gold tassel, no less!/
Teeny door to our bathroom/
... in our ridiculously large room!/
A pedestrian road/
At the market/
Fake Talavera for the tourist/
At the Talavera Armando factory.../
...and our guide, Ben!/
Dishes in molds/
The paint shop/
And the gift shop/
A random beautiful building/
Queso fundido! /
Mmmmm.../
Cheers baby!/
Assana was mesmerized by the balloon sellers/
Chipper Jesus? No!/
Super yummy pastries/
Candied lime filled with coconut. Mmmmm.../
Some rose petals for good measure!/
Spanish and brail, but no English!/
The interior of Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción/
Babu, with the Cathedral in the background/
Casa de los Muñecos/
Puebla's beautiful tile work/
Gal peeling prickly pear fruit/
Yummy spice shop/
Jesuses in a Jesus Shop in the Jesus District/
Mesón Sacristía de la Compañia/
El Sapo!/
What would fit inside The Bag?/
Two pant legs, a disk of peanuts and a bag of cookies, two bottles of water, the little camera and one iPhone, two guide books and the travel journal, the tiles we bought, lip-gloss, a bottle of hand sanitizer, and gum!/
Pumpkin seed mole... can't say it was good! :(/
Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción/
Crazy hair!/
Off to Oaxaca... the road goes thru fields.../
... and rocky out-croppings/
... and a cactus jungle/
... and sandy fields/
... and red rocks/
And we keep on looking for bandits!/
Very creative passing: one 18-wheeler passing the other, and we all follow!/
Our beautiful room at Ex-Convento de Santa Catalina de Siena/
The hallway down/
Dinner at Casa Oaxaca in the middle of a rain storm/
Oh babuuuu!/
Mmmm... cheesy/
The beautiful bouquet of tuberose kept their fragrant until we left/
A restored hallway next to our room/
400 year old paw prints in the brick!/
PandO117/
Indian lady who tried so to sell us crap/
Spices!/
Queso Oaxaca/
Grasshoppers of all sizes!/
Patron saint of pigeons/
Patron saint of puppies and kittens!/
Rocks... why not!/
The Alameda, next to El Zócalo/
Mmm... cheese!/
She was pouring!/
Santa María del Tule/
Yet another church being restored/
Raw wool.../
... with natural dyes/
... for colorful yarn/
... which turns into beautiful rugs!/
Mitla: Thanx to the Spanish, there's a church on top of 1000 year old ruins!/
Santo Domingo church/
Regional Museum /
"Play ball? Oh no! I don't want to play ball!"/
The view from the museum /
Evil mouse/
Restoration in progress/
We got yelled at for sitting on the ledge for a photo! Vatever!/
Oaxaca from Monte Albán/
Ugly dude.../
Ugly Assana.../
Monte Albán/
Little guy taking a flower to his lady!/
Cappuccino with the best view ever/
Cacti at the botanical gardens/
Hug me!/
Crazy-root tree/
Assana can't help herself!/
Babiest paddel!/
Some sort of graduation party we stumbled on/
Drunken kids playing with the camera/
The convent's alter turned into a dance stage/
Accumulated maps - and sunny while we took the photo/
And the next thing we know it is absolutely pouring! Hello monsoon!/
Super cute poofy clouds/
The plane played obstacle course with them/