(7/4/22)
The day started off on the wrong foot when it took us nearly 2 hours to find the right entrance to the Xochimilco canals – and the Monday morning Mexico City traffic was pushing Nick over the edge.
About 1000 years ago, the Xochimilca people dredged up fertile islands of mud in the shallows of Lake Xochimilco to make gardens. This created a series of canals (and plant nurseries) still used today. The canals are a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the last remaining habitat of the endangered and endemic axolotl salamander. Sadly, we did not see any axolotls but we did see several of the invasive species and significant levels of water pollution that are threatened them and making them so rare 🫤
The canals weren’t all bad – beyond the ecological issues – you can rent colorful gondolas to row you through the canals, where vendors of all kinds will pull their rafts up to you to sell food and drinks and souvenirs. You can even hire a floating mariachi band to serenade you through the canals!
We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around the neighborhoods of La Condesa and Roma to see what upscale Mexico City looks like. We stopped to get an ill-fated bite to eat before catching "Minions" in theaters on the 4th of July – apparently the same way many Americans ended up celebrating the 4th LOL.
No one else was on the theater but us!
The night ended pretty horribly with me projectile vomiting in the mall restroom. Even though Nick and I ate the same thing earlier in the day, I contracted some kind of intestinal bug (he was just fine) that would have my bowels in knots for the next several days (from covid straight into food poisoning - yay!). Many thanks to the travel nurse who gave us a supply of azithromycin before we left the States!
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