Mexico City, Mexico ... Dec 4 - 6, 2009

Heather joined me for my latest trip down to Mexico City. I left for meetings on Thursday and she came on Friday. Every year there is a Christmas party for the Latin America team, coinciding with some annual meetings we have there. Although her flight was canceled through Houston because of snow there (seriously, what is up with snow in HOUSTON??), she was able to make it late Friday night, in time for the weekend. She did miss our dinner at the Mexican National Gallery, where we had a special tour of the exhibits and a dinner.

We had already seen most of Mexico City when we lived in Celaya, Guanajuato earlier this decade, so really we didn't have much interest to sight see. After a nice run through the city, we got ready and just wandered to a city market that was pretty crappy. Basically our only desire for the weekend was to relax, find replacement Mexico glasses (our supply has dwindled over the years) and the good Mexican vanilla from San Miguel (we were hoping we could find the same brand we had stocked up on a few years back). We didn't have too much luck on the glasses at first, considering the concierge sent us to a locale that ended up selling EYE glasses! But we found some vanilla that was not the same, but hopefully would suffice and did go down to the Zocolo and walk around for a little while. We even took one of the dangerous taxis back to our hotel since we couldn't find anything else to get us back (we were not smart enough to have our hotel taxi stick around and wait for us). We also stopped at Sanborns, one of the few places we liked to eat/shop at while we lived in Celaya.

The party started in the late afternoon, so we got dressed up and headed over there. There was a nice "early" dinner and then just dancing and socializing, which we were not too fond of. We stayed as long as we felt like we had to, but ended up still leaving very early. It was around 11PM, but considering the party went until the morning (they served breakfast...actually, they served the first dinner, a second dinner, and then breakfast), it was early. But we were glad to head back and go to sleep.

Sunday morning we just hung out all day except for a quick trip to the main craft market, where we were able to find our glasses. Once that was accomplished we didn't feel like we had to do anything else. It was the most relaxing weekend we have had in a long time.

Dawn was kind enough to come out and watch all three kids while we were away, so we didn't have to worry about them at all.

While it was unfortunate that the party was not at the beach, we still have good time.