Tula

An extinct volcano in the distance.

So ILP has another group of teachers in Tula, and Chris and I headed out there for a weekend of fun and visiting with the other teachers. They have told me that it is a super small town with absolutely nothing to do. So I was expecting a super dinky little town, but it was a lot bigger than I expected. It is definitely smaller than Pachuca. Maybe it's just big to me because I've always lived in super small, rural towns...

View of Tula from atop the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl.

Tula was great though, Friday night we hung out and talked. Then we walked to el centro and got some delicious donut holes and ice cream. After that we were off to Plaza del Taco for some amazing tacos! It was a little fenced off area with like fifteen separate stands of dudes cooking tacos for people.

Saturday we headed to the ruins in Tula. They are very small, but still pretty cool. I like the Toltec warriors.

 So the main attraction of the Tula ruins are the 4 Toltec warriors on top of the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl.

They were pretty huge and cool. And they had some nicely toned little butts which I thought was absolutely hilarious.

The ball court of the Tula ruins is one of the larger ones of the Mesoamerican ruins. This is where the warriors would play ball and the captain of the winning team was sacrificed. Aren't you so sad we don't play games and do sacrifices like the Aztecs?

Going to Tula was a fantastic little weekend excursion. It was fun to tell stories with the other teachers about our crazy kids and talk about life in general in Mexico.