Day 99

I got 99 days but a…. Sorry I couldn’t help myself. Today we had to get out of the house. Our house keeper took the month off to shelter in place and called recently to see if we needed her to come over. We needed her to come over.

So instead of homeschooling the kids all day, we took them out of our house so our housekeeper could clean up. We treated it like a field trip, and had all four kids give a report on four different historic buildings in city center.

The video below is of us driving into the city center.

We were starving because we didn’t eat breakfast, so we actually found a restaurant, the restaurant was empty so we felt comfortable taking our masks off.

The kids ate chiliquilies with chicken for breakfast and loved it. Outside the window was a statue of Diego Rivera.

We walked by the Diego Rivera museum on the way to breakfast.

After we finished breakfast, we walked to the University to see the building. And we ran into an older man who gave us a talk about the university. We tipped him of course.

We walked down a street and got to the famous basilica the city is known for. There, our third child gave a talk about it and read from an article in Spanish, explaining it to his very interested siblings.

We walked down the road and had some ice cream before walking through downtown to go home. I had tres leches ice cream and oddly it tastes nothing like it, but it did taste exactly like dead bread. Dead bread is a bread you bring with you on the day of the dead to eat while you are honoring your loved ones who have passed away. It has a doughy cinnamon taste and the bread is commonly shaped like a dead person with their arms crossed as if they are laying in a coffin. We walked through my favorite square in downtown. Usually it is packed with people and restaurants that are open. Today it was empty.

We walked further up the road and made it to the Museum de Regional something. George gave us a lecture on it, this museum was very old. The conquistadores would kill intellectuals and place their heads at the four corners of this building. Our kids are getting an amazing experience here.

We then got into our car and drove home. The next few videos are us driving through the many tunnels n this city.

The noise in these videos are my children. This is what we hear when we drive our kids around. This noise is constant, it doesn’t end. We got home, immediately threw our clothes in the wash and made the kids shower. Then they wanted to wear some eye masks with cucumbers on them. I don’t know either.