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Job-Finding Portfolio. Almost done. Played some frisbee golf yesterday. Saw The Dark Knight on the IMAX. It was INTENSE! It was the only movie I had to think on for about a day before I decided if I liked it or not. Okay, I liked it right away but I had to decide if I wanted to see it again. Heath Ledger had the most convincing role as the Joker. The sad thing is it probably killed him. The plot was brilliant and I will finally admit that, movie-wise, Batman is definitely better than Spiderman. And Christian Bale still ranks up there in my favorite actors list.

And I love Alfred Pennyworth. Maybe I'll name a kid after him.

As for the real reason for this post, it is time for........

MesoAmerica Day One:

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Salt Lake City, UT to Mexico City, Mexico

I'd say the morning started but it never really did. It was more a continuation of Saturday. I never went to bed. I was up all of Saturday still packing and moving out of my house in preparation for the 2 a.m. departure time. 2 a.m. rolled around and I was sprinting out of the house madly trying to get to the Benson with a ginormous pack on my back and another shouldered on my front. Much thanks to Sidekick who stuck with me through the whole ordeal and got me to the bus on time.

Since I arrived, uhhhhh, right on time since my parents are probably reading this, I got an aisle seat and no sleep during the five hour ride to the Salt Lake airport. It was miserable. But I was still excited. I spent the morning saying my goodbyes to everyone on the phone and drinking out of a public drinking fountain for the last time. With my group of 40+ people, you can well imagine how much of a holdup there was at the drinking fountain as we were all filling every available container to hold us over until we got our money changed and could buy water.

Good times. Okay, I'll go into picture mode now:

Delta Flight #237 took off on time at 9:45 a.m. from Salt Lake City, UT.  I got a window seat without even trading!  By this time in the morning, I had checked for my passport no less than 17 times.  It was still there.

 

Pretty clouds....still flying high.

Just some random pictures of my first sights in Mexico City.  These were taken on the bus ride from the airport to our hostel.

Bugs are everywhere!  For reals.  This is a taxi.

Part of my travel group.  Here we're standing in the middle of Mexico City (literally right off the Zocalo) with all our luggage just screaming American tourists.  Just a little scary.....

This is the Metropolitan Cathedral as seen from my hostel window.  It was so close I felt like I could reach out and touch it.

More views from my view room at the Hostel Catedral.  It was seriously the coolest hostel.  There were younger people from all over the world staying there and the live music played way into the night.  I loved it.

Haha, this is the view from the toilet in the room.  It had shutters that opened to an inner courtyard were you could look down on the scene in the lobby.....or at anyone in the hotel who forgot to close their shutters.  Usually some pretty interesting sights.  I won't elaborate.

And that was day one.  As you can imagine, I was quite exhausted by the end of it.  Went to sleep pinching myself as I still couldn't believe I was finally in Mexico City!

Have a great day :)