photo a day challenge

i just came across this yesterday:

 

 

and i wish i had known about it sooner.

because how fun is it to think creatively?

to think outside the box,

but on an assignment?

i am going to participate,

even though i am starting a full month late.

and i think it will be a difficult challenge. 

sometimes i think too literally,

so this will be an opportunity to loosen up

and get funky.

and of course i am going to do the february challenge too:

so in 31 days i will post my "january" photos. 

and in 30 days i will post my february photos.

get pumped.

cause i am.

that's an elaborate, "i told you so."

rcg and i have been trying to see more of mexico,

for two reasons:

1. there is so much to see

and it is all crazy awesome.

and

2. because we will be moving to dallas soon.

so this past weekend we decided to take a turibus

and see the southern parts of mexico city.

what i really wanted to see was frida kahlo's house

but we figured doing the tour was an easy way to see lots of stuff all at once.

well, 

it did not go quite as planned. 

first of all,

anyone who knows me

knows that i will fall asleep at the drop off a hat in a moving vehicle.

add some sunshine and warmth to it

and i don't stand a chance. 

so most of the ride was me sleeping.

and rcg would wake me up when we got to something good.

secondly, 

there was no tour guide on the bus.

you listen to a pre-recorded lady in spanish.

boring.

third,

the turibus took us all over the south

but it mainly just stopped at malls.

double boring.

but it did start to get good when we reached coyoacán

so that is where i will start.

we drove to the villa coyoacán

where we saw the fountains with the coyotes

and the parish of san juan bautista.

then we headed over to frida kahlo's house.

the cool thing about her house,

besides the fact that she lived and died there,

is the fact that it is blue. 

like super blue.

  

when we went inside we weren't supposed to take any pictures.

i did anyways.

obviously.

 

i wish i could have gotten pictures of frida's studio

but the security guard was like a hawk.

it was really cool -- 

paints in little perfume jars, 

pastels in their case,

her specially made easel from rockefeller,

books out the crazy,

and tons of sunlight.

it would have made a rockstar instagram photo.

when we were done being creepers in frida and diego's house

we went back to coyoacán 

and walked around the market

and had some dinner.

(duck tacos, get in my belly.)

all in all, a pretty groovy day.

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six months.

national pie day

white elephant.

you've heard of a white elephant party, right?

everyone brings a gift.

you put your gift in a pile with everyone else's gift. 

  then each person picks a gift -- 

but you have 2 choices:

1- pick a gift from the pile

2- steal a gift that someone else has already gotten.

fun. 

i, obviously,

picked the gift in the trash bag.

and was rewarded with 

fabric softner

rose soap

and 

2 cans of jack daniels.

most amazing gift ever.

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mexico has some great signs.

no more so amazing than the signs that decorate every garage door:

no parking.

but they are all so unique.

and all so amazing.