Mexico D.F. : Xochimilco

I woke up this morning to find a note from Robert at reception: He was staying at our hotel. I decided that after buying a torta I would investigate why he had appeared here instead of being with his family. It turned out that having a party at his sick, 86 year old uncle's house had not gone down too well with him, and he had left for the hotel. After his parents had tried to blame him for the party, and he had explained that he wasn't there, we set off for breakfast and to the centre. Nicky was planning on going to the Anthropology Museum, but we decided that this was a bit too academic after our party last night, and so set off to do some shopping. Robert, who had originally planned to be in Puebla, had sent his suitcase in a different car, and so had nothing but the clothes he stood in. After two days, this was getting a bit much, and so we decided to stop off at Sears to get him some new gear.

After a quick trip around the shop, and convincing Mai that there was really no way that they were going to have jeans long enough for her in Mexico, we trekked back to the hotel for a nap. A quick siesta, and we were off again to Robert's cousin's house, where we were planning to meet everyone to go to Xochimilco, a suburb of D.F where you can rent out boats for parties or whatever you like. We originally said we would leave at six, but after arriving at seven and deciding that we needed some tacos, we eventually left at eight. Mexican style. The other slight problem with getting there was that we had one medium sized car and eight people, but this was overcome in usual mexican style, by having three in the front and five in the back.

Once we got there, nothing else remained but to buy some beer and haggle for a boat, which eventually came down to the toss of a coin - we win, we pay less. Luckily we won, and we were soon on the boat, music playing and drink flowing in our usual manner. We were also taken on a pass of a rather creepy island where a supposed witch lives, and there are hundreds of crucified, hangend and otherwise killed and mutilated dolls. Weird!

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