Sunday, December 31- New Year’s Eve! I think I last posted on NYE in the afternoon. Picking up there, we had a nice, pretty low key Mexican New Year’s Eve. I do not think we experienced Ivan’s childhood New Year’s Eve of “yesteryear”, when his whole family would get together and there would be a… Continue reading New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day
Thursday, December 28 Backing up a couple days… (writing this on Saturday 12/30). We had spent Wednesday night in Mexico City. Thursday morning we got up and had a fairly slow morning while Ivan’s aunt and mom made tortas for breakfast. Basically like extra delicious sandwiches on telera rolls with refried beans and cheese and… Continue reading Mexico City Adventure #4: Castle of Chapultepec
Wednesday, December 27th (continued) Picking up where I left off…. So after the Basilica, we split up and Ivan, his dad, the boys and I continued on to the Historic Centro, or “Zócalo”. This where the Cathedral is, the National Palace, and more. Various historical sights are here (or near here) and it’s basically the… Continue reading Mexico City Adventure #3- El Zócalo + Palacio de Bellas Artes
Wednesday, December 27th Ok, I didn’t technically number the first one, but I’ll call our Christmas Day outing to Coyoacán our tourist event #1 of the trip. Yesterday, Wednesday the 27th, we drove back to Mexico City for another overnight and more tourist adventures. I think I’ll split these into different posts to make it… Continue reading Mexico City Adventure #2
Yesterday (the 26th) was a really chill day!! Which was fine by me. After all of the busy holiday stuff at home, packing, travel, early mornings, late nights, Christmas….it was nice to have our first full day in Toluca be a relaxing one. Everyone kind of slept in/lounged around much of the morning. It’s just… Continue reading A relaxed day
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas! Just like that, it’s the 26th already. Wow. We had a good day, albeit drastically different than any other Christmas in my life! The boys were mildly grumbly about the fact that it “didn’t feel like Christmas”. They didn’t not enjoy the day or anything, but they said… Continue reading Christmas Day + Coyoacán
Hola from Mexico; we made it! Travel to Chicago Even though I had mostly already packed in advance, I was grateful to have most of the day Saturday to get ready to go. Not sure where so many loose ends always come from, but I seemed to stay busy with misc stuff. We left home… Continue reading Travel + Christmas Eve in Mexico
We're home!! Start to finish we were gone two weeks to the day. It felt both like a long time, and a short time, all at once. I'm currently in the "drowning but trying to catch up on life" phase right now (as I so nicely put it to someone yesterday who was asking me… Continue reading Wrap up: Friday- Tuesday! Home from Mexico
Thursday, August 18 After our extremely late night on Wednesday, I was dead to the world Thursday morning until after 9 am. Might have been 10- I can’t remember!! Ivan and Ethan were apparently up by 8 am sitting outside. It was a beautiful morning. I felt somewhat like I had been run over by… Continue reading Valle de Bravo (Day 2) —> CDMX
Wednesday, August 17 On Wednesday we had plans to drive to Valle de Bravo, another small town about an hour and half west this time of Toluca. I was not initially super thrilled about this, not because I didn’t want to go- I did, very much- but our original plan was to go later in… Continue reading Valle de Bravo, Day 1
GRATEFUL KAE 