I left Canada after Einstein's bar in the AM, which meant I only slept a few hours. I was SOOOO tired when i touched down in Mexico City airport, i could barely see, and had to whip out the glasses so I could see what i was doing and where I was. Anyway, after an uneventful plane flight (Air Canada showed the same movies as in the flight into Canada) I was looking around the airport for Joeri and his friend Sander, who were supposed to pick me up but they weren't there. Two hours later, they STILL weren't there.
So panic started to set in, and I wandered the airport for ages, not knowing what to do. Finally, i decided to reread emails sent from Joeri about when he was picking me up, and realised that he kept mentioning Thursday 11th July, when really, there is no such day!!! so I realised he must have thought I'd be flying in on the Wednesday. How stupid.
Anyway, i did what any girl stuck would do. I went to hostelworld.com, found an authorised taxi, and went to the hostel, thinking, what a crazy day, but thankfully i was ok.
Until I arrived at the hostel, and they had NO rooms!!! panicking again, the lovely people at the hostel booked me into another hostel. One more taxi later, I was settled into the hostel. Incidentally, Joeri later rang me and apologised profusely, as he should, and we met up for dinner (chinese food!), before having a few drinks and watching the Mexico/Argentina game with a few girls from the hostel.
12 July
The boys and I got up early and went to see the Pyramids at Teotihuacan. Even though there are many tours that depart from the hostelswe decided to do it the mexican way, and take the metro, the local bus, and find our own way there...
As Shelley had said before, the metro is truly a weird experience. The city has 25 million people crammed into a relatively small area, and they all want to catch the metro, so we were all squeezed in....and they don´t all smell like roses. Anyway, we caught the metro to the end of the line, and had to find the bus to Teotihuacan, but didn´t know where it was as the terminal is basically a huge concrete area with many many buses all packed in. So we decided to walk down the road, until a random bus stopped, a lady got out and said ¨blah blah blah Teotihuacan?¨ and we said yes yes we are going to Teotihuacan!! so we jumped on the bus and were on our way, mostly due to luck.
The pyramids are amazing! They`re massive and really incredibly impressive.
After catching the bus back, it was time to move hostels over to stay with Joeri and Sander. So the boys helped me carry my bag over to Hostel Amigo. Staying at Hostel Amigo made me realise, i really lucked out with my old hostel, which was really clean and nice, and way better than theirs! We had dinner with a friend of Sander´s from Netherlands in a Cantina, where I tried Tacos El Pastor and another Taco that had cactus inside it! All were really tasty, but kind of spicy. Then back to the hostel for sleepy time, as we were to leave early the next morning for Queretero!
