Sproing!

RIGHT, so when we left off I had just seen 'Hombre de la Mancha' and had successfully gone to sleep. To celebrate I woke up at 6:00 to go hiking! Unfortunately we were told the night before that there would be some snow involved. This turned out to be a pretty harsh understatement. Here's a Tec building from the parking lot pre-departure:

After driving for the better part of 3 hours in a lifted jeep with a ride I would grudgingly call uncomfortable, we arrived in Ohio! Yay Ohio!

So yeah, it snows in Mexico sometimes (apparently it's quite unusual as I'm sure you'd imagine). Of course I had not brought my boots as, you know, it was MEXICO and all, so that kinda put a damper on the day. We had to spend the entire hike staring at the tracks of the people in front of us, and everytime the group stopped the ice in between my toes began to freeze, which was also not good. Luckily the view was awesome, as usual.



It took us almost the entire day to complete the hike, and it's wasn't until 10pm that night that I returned to my host family's house to discover my awesome asymmetrical sunburn. It's kinda hard to tell you're burning if you're frozen at the same time, I guess, as I honestly didn't notice the sun at all that day.

Anyway, that concluded a very full weekend that concluded with a few hours of sleep less than I would've liked. The next school week was filled with VISA work, school stuff, laboratories, and trying to track down the fencing team (still working on that, we'll see). This weekend I only had one activity planned, a trip to the Cola de Caballo waterfall. It was quite pretty:

Now, waterfalls are nice and all but they don't quite justify an hour of bus ride. So, what else was there to do? Well, there was a suspicious white truss assembly precariously positioned over a natural cliff so... well...

Yep, it's billed as Mexico's tallest bungee jump (70m). It was pretty cool, although bouncing around by your ankles is really awkward after a bit. Here's me swinging around:

The trip also included a little jaunt around Santiago, which was a very pretty little town near the waterfall. Here's the church, which looked fantastic.

Anyway, after enjoying a frozen melon water thing I got back on the bus and we headed back to Tec for some siestas before the Saturday evening ahead. That's everything I've got so far, I'm going on a big trip next weekend so I'll be back in two weeks!