Mexican Moments with Greg and Peg: woo whoo

Sat Aug 1

The day started out lazy - I did see 1 sick sister at our hotel then we took the Griffins to the Carlos Slim museum by Costco. He is the richest man in Mexico - owns the cell phone company for the whole country. He has art (Peter Paul Reubans, Salvador Dalis, Renoirs) and statues (Rodan - the thinker.) We got home and I had to work on my report since I will be gone all day tomorrow flying to and from Mexicali to take a sick elder home. We had dinner and the Griffen's found out how to work their projector on their wall and we saw 100 yard journey - kind of a chick flick. (You know you liked it)

We took a pic of this light by our hotel. It has been only yellow,
only red, only green and then off all together.
Now they have fixed it for good - red and green!
for the schizophrenic driver!
Ha! Stop if you want or go if you want!
Gotta love the choices!

We went to the Carl Slims museum!
This is what happens when you have so much
money you don't know what to do with it all!
Here is a bitty part of his Beatles collection.

Beatles albums!

Looking up the stairs from the main floor!
This place is huge.
It has 6 floors filled with stuff - expensive stuff!

This is looking down to the door we came in.

This is a replica of the statue in Italy
called Pieta.

Chalices of silver

Of course Guadalupe

A model of the building

Lovely crystal

no idea

Carlota's broche (empress of Mexico from Austria in 1860's)

Maximillian and Carlota

Ivory carvings from Japan

More carvings

Buddha carving

enormous ivory carvings

Eve coming out of Adam's rib

Peter Paul Reuban painting

Supposed to be Jesus nursing - not sure about this one.

Eating afterwards at the mall

Had my Costco Hotdog - 25 pesos with drink Got mustard up my nose

This is looking at the roof of the museum from the outside
Very weird shape!

Sun Aug 2

Boy - this day started out at 4 am for me - had to be at the airport at 5 for a 7 am flight. No traffic and I made it in 20 minutes. We flew Volaris - Mexico's economy airline and what a mess. The elder I took home had a psychotic break - he had been sedated for 2 days so he was mellow and we had no problems traveling. We got to the airport at a little after 8 am Mexicali time and were met by his family. What a great family - dad is 4th generation member, older brother has served a mission. The family had a hard time trying to figure out what had happened since he acted kind of normal. It was an hour drive to San Luis Rio Colorado (city of a million people) and also the hottest city in Mexico. We arrived at the Stake Center and the stake president interviewed the elder then we traveled across town to their chapel (stake and 5 wards in this city). I was really impressed with the ward - great gospel scholars in Sunday school. Priesthood was taught by the elder's father who is the high priest group leader and he gave one of the best lessons I have heard on Home teaching. We then went to their home where they fed me a wonderful dinner. They had just moved into a new home 2 days ago and it was still a mess. After dinner every one in the family crowded into the master bedroom since it had a wall unit air conditioner and we just visited. (Today they said it was a cooler day at 110 degrees - so reminded me of Mesa.) They drove me back to the airport at about 4 for a 5 o'clock flight (3 1/2 hour flight to Mexico city) and I got home by 11. I was worried that the family would come and pick up the elder and leave me from 8 am until 5 pm in a tiny airport without a restaurant - just a 7 -11 type store for the whole day. I hope this kid gets it together and comes back out on his mission.