Victory!!

I told you I would try to post when I got back from Zacatecas!! I know it's 12:45, but the bus got back at 11:45, then shower, unpack, talk to roomie, Facebook for a few minutes, and here I am.

The trip to Zacatecas was amazing. I love cities like that. They are required to keep the buildings in a large part of the city as colonial as possible. All store signs are painted in black above the doorway, nothing lit up or hanging into the street. The Mine Club was amazing. I was asked by a couple other international students if the US had anything like that. To my knowledge, no. Not at all. I'll have photos and videos up soon, somewhere. Cerro de la Bufa was really cool. On Sunday we went to La Quemada. They are pyramids built between 500 and 800 AD. The name "La Quemada" means the burnt. There was a fire that destroyed most of the structures inside this area, hence the name. There were areas that you could see stones that were darker than others, from the fire.

On Monday we went to Guadalupe to a museum of religious paintings, then went to a village outside the city of Guadalupe to see a family friend of one of our tour guides, his family makes grape wine. We sampled different types they produced. They had a 10 year red wine that was delicious. A 1 year sweet wine that I did not like at all. It seemed that the men and the women from France liked the 10 year wine the best, while the Europeans and Mexican women preferred the 1 year sweet wine. They had a white wine that I did not like. But hey, it was fun to sample them, and see how they were produced.

Then an 8 hour bus ride back, and here I am. Well, since I did almost no homework this weekend, I am going to dive into some Design of Machine Elements calculations (quite glad I brought my Mechanics of Materials binder with me).

Good night everyone. I will have photos up on Facebook either way late tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

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