Mexico City (part 2)

Dennis and the kids took another week of intensive Spanish classes and everyone is making real progress.  Mira is volunteering to ask questions and order food for all of us.  Johanna has been working her actual job but also trying to plan our next steps.

We tried to find a round challah for Rosh Hashanah but didn’t plan far enough in advance. So, we made do with apples and honey, a round babka, and also pan de muerto (which means “bread of the dead”and is fittingly round to symbolize the cycle of life and death, not too different from the round challah which some say symbolizes the cycles of the year and continuity of life).  We also went to dinner at an Israeli restaurant with all the other people who weren’t at temple.

After Spanish classes ended we headed out of the city for a tour of Teotihuacan which was a city around 2000 years ago and includes the Sun and Moon pyramids. They were impressive! The kids were particularly excited by the incredible sound amplification that enabled us to speak in a regular voice at one spot and have someone hear it far on the other side. That and the many stray dogs which they loved.

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