ARTE

Today was craaaazy. Tuesday is free museum day in Mexico. And that's exactly what we did... x4. Four museums in one day is a sure-fire way to wear you out. 


We started at La SEP (Secretaría de Educación Pública) where we saw 23290348 murals by Diego Rivera.  Ok, there were actually only about 200, but that's still a LOT of murals. The tour was only supposed to be 2 hours long, but ended up being 3 because we accidentally agreed to do this little art/craft thing... Long story short, we started the day off a little behind schedule.

 Next we headed to Museo San Ildefonso. Our guide was fenomenal and explained to us several of José Clemente Orozco's murals. They were definitely still intriguing the second time around, and I'm not much of an art person, so that's saying something. Muy impresionante. 


At this point we were dying of hunger and therefore broke off for lunch. I distinctly remembered this day from last year because it was so tiring, but still we pressed on. After lunch we went to El Palacio Nacional, my favorite of the four museums. El Palacio Nacional isn't exactly a museum (a palace, duh), but the secondary workplace of the Mexican president. Apart from MORE of Rivera's murals, we got to see a sector of the palace that I didn't have the privilege of seeing last year: the president's office, the balcony where he shouts the "Grito de Dolores" every 15th of September at midnight ("Viva México!"), reception halls, red carpets, immaculate portraits - THE WORKS. All of us were in awe. It was that awesome. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures of the secret part...

Lastly, we walked (slash ran because we were short on time) to El Palacio de Bellas Artes. We arrived at 5:25. The museum closes at 5:30. So they let us in to look around for a few minutes anyway? No. Qué pena. I was a super stress box today. But it's okay, because we're going to head that way on Friday to see the museum FOR REAL. 

Roxanne came over a few hours later to review some stuff (actually because she just wanted to hang out with me, duh!), and we were surprisingly pretty productive! That might have been the only thing that went as planned today... haha. Even though we were all exhausted from a day of running around the city, some peeps decided to come over and watch a movie on the terrace again. It was a sad movie, but I think we all enjoyed it more by watching it together. I'm gonna miss doing that when I get back home.


A dormir!


"For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." - Romans 7:18