We spent last week in Mexico City—decided to go over a few days after Christmas and see the New Year in there. Our friends, the Degraffenreid family (a missionary family from Guadalajara whose kids go to school with ours) went with us. We had a great time showing them Mexico City, seeing the tourist sites, hanging out with old friends, and visiting our memories of our early years as missionaries in Mexico so long ago.
In later blogs we may write in a little more detail, but we visited the Pyramids of Teotihuacan, the Basilica of the Virgin Guadalupe, Chapultepec Park, the Zocalo and Templo Mayor, the museum of Friday Kahlo, the center of Coyoacan, and Six Flags Mexico. We took 17-year old Zane Degraffenreid to Los Narajitos for tacos and he ate 30 tacos in one sitting—we wonder if it might be a record!
We got to spend time with our good friends the Brednich and Henderson families—and got to eat lunch with Pedro Marin. We also got to visit the orphanage where our daughter Ceci spent 2 years of her life—got to visit several of the people who were responsible for caring for her back then. We got to say “gracias” again to them.
One of the things that I really liked about the week was that we stayed at the Pink House. When Nancy and I first arrived as missionaries to Mexico we lived our first 5 ½ years in the Pink House. We brought Morgan and Natali home from the hospital to this house. It was there that we studied Spanish everyday and began to fall in love with the Mexican people.
It was cool to visit old memories last week!
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
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