For Valentine's Day Roxy, Sean, and I went to Guanajuato. We had decided to go because the day worked for us, but it turns out that being there for Valentine's was a GREAT choice. There was so much happening in the city. I'm pretty certain that anybody in the general area who had a Valentine went to the center of town to show off the present they received. There were markets set up selling all types of V-Day items. Flowers, balloons, and candy everywhere.

The city itself is beautiful. It's about an hour and a half from San Miguel by bus. We had a short checklist of things we wanted to see and first on my list was the Diego Rivera museum. I was so excited to see it that we had the taxi from the bus station drop us off directly there. Things were going well until I stepped out of the car and ended up face to face with a closed sign. Definitely a disappointment. I guess there's always next time. We did a good job of finding great things to do all day, so it ended in success.

Teatro Juarez:

Aaand the stuff just to the right of Teatro Juarez:

These are just a few of the many stairs up to the museum of mummies. The museum itself was a little strange. It boasts the world's smallest mummy, a really tiny baby who is propped up next to his or her mother, whose crudely stitched up stomach suggests that she died and they tried to save the baby. Not sure if that's exactly what happened, but a really sad thing to see.

We took a blind stab at heading up to something titled "mina" on the tourist map. We assumed that would be one of the mines that Guanajuato is famous for. Could have ended really badly but it ended up being one of the best parts of the day. We had a beautiful view over the entire city and it felt pretty nice to be up in the quiet after a long day navigating crowds and dodging balloons.

We were going to have a bit of a wait at the bus station before returning home so we picked up a deck of cards before heading there. Turns out they were for a specific game, and certainly not one what I know. Instead of the regular suits they had coins, goblets, swords, and clubs (like what cavemen have). Instead of the Jack, Queen, King combo they had three royal men of various ages for the 10, 11, and 12 cards, no 13. The numbers 8 and 9 were skipped, too. We should have looked harder at the box the cards came in, because it said count: 40 pieces. The three of us had been spending a lot of time playing hearts and rummy so we decided we could make it work with hearts, but it was tough. Definitely not a good 3 dollar purchase.