A wonderful weekend (San Miguel to Guanajuato)

This last weekend was extraordinary! Violet and I went on a 3 day excursion and visited three beautiful and historically relevant cities: San Miguel de Allende, Dolores Hidalgo, and Guanajuato. We left bright and early friday morning at 7 am. In total we spent 10 hours in the car that day. Our first stop was San Miguel where we visited the cathedral, it is the only cathedral in Mexico that has European gothic architecture. The city itself is a big tourist attraction and the home of many foreigners, so we heard a lot of english being spoken while there. Next was Dolores, we walked by the cathedral where Miguel Hidalgo (the father of the mexican indpendence) gave the famous yell that excited the start of the fight towards independence from Spain. We also visited the house where Miguel Hidalgo spent his early childhood. And then...Guanajuato!

Guanajato was my favorite city of the three and the place we spent the majority of the weekend. It is a city nestled in between the Sierra Madres. The houses are organized in a stair step manner, and vary in color from bright pink to sea foam green. The view of our surroundings was always breathtakingly beautiful and I loved walking around the city just to soak in all the maravelous sights. There was a lot of culture and history to take in, we visited a silver mine, la Alhondiga de Grandaditas (an important museum), and the house of Diego Rivera. That evening we also observed the independence day festivities. Violet and I also had some free time which we used to visit the local market and to play in the pool :)

Left: Violet and I inside the silver mine! Right: Violet and I being dorks....

Left: Beautiful downtown Guanajuato!!! Right: Violet and I at La Alhondiga de Granaditas (the original building were the Spainards took refuge from the Mexicans)

Just being silly :)