Mexico City - New Year's Eve

Uninspired to write much these days, I'll let the photos tell the tale... We explored more of the DF today.These were some of the sights from the local food market:




grasshoppers anyone?
artesanal market stuff:


Ubiquitous VW buggies, a taxi:

car thong?

Also some archaic delivery systems are still being used. Here is an ice delivery man and his delivery bike:


Mexico City has a mix of architecture and you seem to find something of interest on every block. The art deco Bellas Artes, designed by an italian architect in the early 1900s:


can you see the architect's nod to mayan design?

on display in Bellas artes, the diego rivera mural - commissioned by rockefeller, destroyed, and redone later by Rivera.

a building with spanish tile facade (near Bellas Artes):

more cool architecture squished between buildings:

We met up with Sergio and Sasha at their place in the area of the city called Polanco. We had hoped to eat a nice dinner in their neighborhood, but everything, i mean EVERYTHING, was closed for New Year's Eve... so we improvised, and made a delicious spaghetti meal instead. . . For New Year's Eve, we quietly set off sparklers, and listened to the fireworks blown off around the city.