mole and chocolate

For the weekend, Carly Tai, Emily, Lauren and I headed off to Oaxaca for a weekend. We took a midnight from Puebla and arrived in Oaxaca at four in the morning. After trying to sleep in the bus station for awhile, we decided to head to our hostel with the hope that the owner would lets us in early. He did. Our hostel was awesome. The guy was super nice and thought that I spoke fluent Spanish. I loved going to Oaxaca...it gave me a huge confident boast with my Spanish. I was able to handle all of the problems that arose. I booked the hostel for the wrong day, forgot our bus tickets, etc. I was able to deal with it all! After sleeping for a few hours at the hostel we went to the Oaxaca Temple. It was wonderful. It looks just like the Detroit Temple. When I was doing baptisms, I had this overwhelming feeling of being at home. It was perfect. We spent the rest of the day shopping. We hit up the largest market in Mexico. They says if you can't find it in Oaxaca, you don't need it. I had a freak out. I tried to pull money of my account, but the bus company overcharged me $500, so I had no money the rest of the trip. Lucky I had already paid for my hostel and my bus ticket home. Carly Tai lent me money so I could eat the rest of the time we where in Oaxaca. That night we went to an ethnic dance show...boring. Emily and I ended up leaving it early and wondered around the Zocalo. There was a random parade and this guys danced up on us. He was dressed in a funky chicken outfit. On Sunday, we got up and went to the chocolate shop. Oaxaca is known for it chocolate. They melt it in milk or agua and then use a frother. I also bought mole. Mole is a traditional Mexican dish that contains chocolate, peanuts, chiles, etc. Every State has their own version of it. I don't like Puebla's black mole...but I loved Oaxaca's red mole. I'm excited for my family to try it. We spent that day in the Zocalo. We met a super nice lady and some cute little boys. We played with the boys for while. I pretended to throw them into the fountain and they loved it. They drew pictures for us. We ended up walking up this pretty cool street. We saw some cool building and churches. I ended up going into this really cool art gallery that was similar to Body Worlds but more artistic. In the end I loved Oaxaca.