Finally here

After having to deal with the new airport policies regarding luggage (of course they will try to rip you off as much as they can) and paying extra for the - true enough - fairly heavy suitcases, we arrived to Mexico city in no time (2 quick hours). Everything went well here, we found the official taxi, where you pay in advance and don't give any money to the driver, that took us to the apartment on Rio Lerma.

Julie, the landlady was here and she is super-nice, even helped us bring the luggage up (3rd floor, no elevator- can't escape our fate, it seems) and bought us some exotic fruits...We have settled in somewhat, the apartment is big and with lots of light. there are hummingbirds appearing from time to time in front of the window to feed on the sugary water left outside for them...never seen a hummingbird live before. We also went to see the small market that they have on Fridays just around the corner, not bad but apparently on Tuesdays there is a huge one close. We ate quesdillas for 8 pesos (80 cents), they tasted amazing...

Today, on Saturday we took our first sightseeing trip to the Zocalo which is the heart of the Centro Historico, it is a big square with governmental palaces and the Catedral Metropolitana, a huge and amazingly decorated baroque church from the colonial 16th century. We also saw the Templo Mayor, an Aztec place of worship that was quite recently excavated after they demolished a bunch of colonial buildings sitting on top of it. It is the foundation of a pyramid church from the Aztec times...

We didn't go in (next time) because we couldn't get into the Palacio National either (they asked for ID, the home offices of the president, which is decorated with Diego Rivera murals, so we need to go back there anyways...

Pictures and more will follow...