When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.Helen Keller
Wow! We had an exhausting and very fun day today. We asked the Olsons where they wanted to go for one last day here in Mexico! WE ended up going to the Basilica of Guadeloupe. This is the big church where people crawl on their knees every Dec. 12th for miles to worship They usually have bloody knees by the time they get there! Millions of other people just walk for miles and miles to come here on Dec. 12th mainly because that is supposedly the day when she appeared to Juan Diego back in 1531. People carry big banners of Guadeloupe plastered with flowers or tinsel. Some carry big pictures of her on their backs too! It is a big circus! There is a big beautiful Basilica or cathedral that is very old and is sinking like everything else in Mexico! All of the churches and buildings are sinking cause they were built on a lake bed! One good earthquake and we could all end up in the lake! 😌 In 1975 they built a new modern church where the shroud of Guadaloupe is hanging in a big huge gold frame. There is a moving walkway so you can't clog up the spot in front of the shroud! It doesn't look like it is from 1591 Who really knows about all this! I took lots of pics I will spread out for the next couple of days for you to see! There are 2 other little churches in the same area as the two big ones. They are awesome to look at, but very gaudy with all the decor! We walked around the churches and the beautiful gardens. The old cemetery was closed! Bummer! That's what I wanted to see! The cemeteries down here have big headstones with all kinds of stuff built around the grave! It would be so fun to do a savanna hunt in this cemetery!!! HaHa!
After that we drove downtown and parked at the Bayes Artes - the big building where that folklore dance was we went to before Christmas. We walked over to the old and first Post Office! Beautiful building! Then on to the National Art Museum. Another beautiful building but full or art and we all know how I love walking around art museums! Not my favorite!
We finally broke out of there and walked over to the House of Blue Tiles - Sanborns for lunch of Enchiladas suisas. Then we walked over to the Latin American Tower and rode the elevator up to the 42nd floor to look out over the city! It didn't matter which way you looked, all you could see is more big city! WOW! This town is big with the 35,000,000 people, about that many churches and twice that many cars!!! 🚕
We got back to our car, Elder Olson drove home and we all passed out from exhaustion! Fun day! I hope the Olsons had a fun time on their last day playing in the city!
Greg had lots of missionary medical stuff to catch up on so we stayed in tonight!
Hasta Luego!
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| worshippers at the Basilic |
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Basilica of Guadalupe - tilting way to the left and forward |
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| The shroud of Juan Diego |
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| floral display made by worshippers |
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| The podium in the new cathedral |
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| Inside the new cathedral |
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| Inside the new cathedral |
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| Flowers in the cathedral |
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| Inside the cathedral Hard to see those two guys are carrying posters on the front of them of Guadaloupe People walk around like that with her picture either on their front or their backs! |
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