Hola from La Ciudad de Mexico

Well, we made it safely to Mexico City, landing around 6:00 am this morning, after leaving Lima around 12:15 am. I really didnt sleep on the flight at all (I have a hard time with that on airplanes for some reason). We flew past a lot of lightning storms once we got over Mexico, so that was interesting looking out the window at those. It took about an hour and a half to go through immigration because it was so crowded. We finally arrived at our hotel without any transit delays around 7:30 am and immediately went to sleep for a while. The protests and demonstrations appear to be completely nonviolent and passive. Many tents and sitting areas are set up on the Plaza de la Independencia and along one of the main roads leading to the plaza, which seems to be the only road closed off. Other than that things seem to be running smoothely. We walked around a while all afternoon after a late lunch, and just now finished eating dinner. Probably will go to bed soon - missing a whole night of sleep doesnt feel all that great. Tomorrow I think we'll go to the National Anthropology Museum. Thursday or Friday we'll go to Cuernavaca to visit my host family. The day we don't go we'll go to the Teotihuacan pyramids outside of the city. Its been pretty rainy here today, but a nice change from the dry Andes.