PowerCycle

Went over to Los Guachimontones after class and took a tour of the ruins with the Director of Operations for the school, Wouter and 2 other students, Sarah and Steve. The circular stepped pyramids were interesting. The biggest one had a little story behind it. Back in the day when they were building the nearby highway they needed some rocks. Well it just so happens there was a huge pile of rocks sitting right nearby so they started grinding them up to use for the road. Not sure how much time passed but they eventually realized that the rocks they were grinding up were from the pyramids that date back to as early as 300 BC. Oops. Not as bad as when they used to burn mummies for use as firewood but still.

There was a playground there and during some of the games the winners would actually have to honor of being sacrificed. The game was like basketball but they’d used their hips to move the ball (not sure how) and they scored by placing the ball in either corner of the opposing team’s “end zone”.

After the tour we headed over to a great restaurant on a lake an enjoyed some margaritas and dinner. Took a while to get back because rush hour in the 2nd largest city in Mexico is brutal.

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