We visited one more friend of Kelsi's on our way to go shopping at the market.
The streets near the market were very narrow, so here is my awesome parking job.
We shopped in a big open-air market and had fun seeing all the colors and clothes. There were a lot of ladies from Chomula who wore these traditional black goat skin skirts.
There were also a couple of cathedrals right by the market that were cool to look at. (I pretended that the beam of light shines directly on the keyhole to a secret passage on a certain day of the year.)
I loved the colors in the market. So purple!
And it was fun seeing babies on the backs.
After shopping, we stopped to get some cash at an ATM and then ate at this street taco vendor, and survived! And it was SO TASTY!
Next we headed to Tuxtla. On the road from San Cristóbal back to Tuxtla Gutierrez, we happened upon the end of the world, so we got out and took some pictures of it.
Then we went to Chiapa de Corzo (across the river from Tuxtla Gutierrez) to take a boat ride up the amazing canyon. Here's a cool building in the park there.
And right next to that is a tree that I'm sort of surprised Erika didn't climb. (Fence, shmence).
It was a warm day. Um, excuse me? I thought I ordered the large water?
Soon we found ourselves on a boat heading up the Cañon de Sumidero. (They had to have a bigger passenger switch places with a smaller one so the boat wouldn't lean). Here is the bridge across the mouth of the canyon. (And remnants of the old one that sort of fell apart.)
The boat was really moving.
Soon the canyon walls started getting taller.
We got to see some cranes, some monkeys jumping around in the trees, and this crocodile.
The walls of the canyon rose as high as 3,000 feet from the water. It was hard to capture on a camera.
We were all, like, "Woahhh!!"
This "Christmas Tree" formation was really interesting.
There was a constant trickle of water across it, keeping the moss and other plants growing.
This part looked like it was in China. Linette assured me that this was highly unlikely.
The boat went even faster on the way back.
It was an amazing trip through the canyon.
That evening we went to the temple in Tuxtla Gutierrez. I got to baptize Erika in Spanish, which was a new experience.
Afterwards, I met this newlywed couple outside. The guy had been in Kelsi's mission, though their paths apparently hadn't crossed.
As planned, we met up with the mission president and his wife, President and Sister George. Once I got to know them, I could see why Kelsi thought they were so great.
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| Sister George, Kelsi, President George |
Then we all went to an all-you-can-meat Brazilian barbeque restaurant. Along with normal stuff, we tried cow udder (ok, fine, I'll say it: "utterly disgusting") and cow tongue. (It seemed to me like you should taste your food and not the other way around...).
Sprint just recently started letting our phone plans call and text from Mexico for free, as well as use some data. That allowed us to use Siri to navigate in the bigger cities. That, in turn, provided great entertainment as we listened to Siri completely mispronounce Spanish street names with complete confidence. "Carretera Panamera" became "CAYR-uh-TEYR-uh PAHN-uh-MEYR-uh". We would all laugh and say, "Thanks, Siri! That never gets old."
The family we were staying with was used to our late arrivals by that time, so they left the gate unlocked for us.
In our next episode, we say farewell to San, visit the awesome waterfalls of Chiflón, and take a death-defying drive through the mountains on the way to Tapachula.
I totally loved the poses at the end of the world! Is there any special significance to those exact poses?
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