More Sightseeing in Guanajuato

It´s hard to see in this photo but this is an ice cream stand. I heard the guy ask if they would like chili on their ice cream. The very last bucket is chili powder.



This is the outside of the theatre that I visited today. Teatro Juarez.

This is the view from my hotel room.





I´m not sure if I mentioned this but my hotel is very nice but my bedroom just has a bunkbed and a lamp in it. It doesn´t have a tv or windows to the outside. It does have windows but they open to the hallway. Because of this, I pretty much get up in the morning and go out and then don´t go back until about 10 at night when I am too tired to walk anymore.

This morning I left the hotel around 7:30 to go to get coffee and to the Museo de Las Momias. I´m not sure if you have heard about it but it is really strange and disgusting. It is a whole museum filled with mummies. I´m not sure if I know the whole store but they had a graveyard nearby that they decided to dig up unclaimed bodies in order to make room for new ones. When they dug them up, they found that they hadn´t decayed and had become mumified or whatever you call it. So naturally they stuck them all on display and made it into a museum. It was pretty creepy to see. Many of them still had clothes on and they also had little signs with stories about the dead person told in first person. They even had little babies. I wanted to go to the museum early because I heard they have very long lines. It was a good thing because I got to go through the whole thing rather quickly. I wasn´t the first person in the museum but I certainly was the first person out.

After that I went to the Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato. This museum reminded me of Trish because they had 3 whole rooms dedicated to miniature art. It made me think of her miniature garden and I thought it would be nice if she could have some miniature art for her miniature garden. Unfortunately they didn´t have any lawn art (or maybe fortunately because it wasn´t for sale anyway). They also had a photo exhibit which was quite nice.

Then I went to the Teatre Juarez. Basically a fancy theatre that I walked through. Nothing too exciting there.

I found a nice little restauarant nearby which had the menu in Spanish and then translated into english. I love that because many times I have no idea what the food on the menu is even though I try to look it up in my little dictionary. The thing that made me laugh was the translation for an egg dish. I don´t remember what it was called in Spanish but it was called divorced eggs in english.

I met some people in a cafe that took me on a walking tour of the city. They showed me where to take Spanish classes and where to get my haircut by a transvestite named Juan. I think she is Juanita now.

I´m at my hotel for at least one more night but may go to a new place tomorrow. I saw a little place that an old mexican lady rents out usually by the month but she may rent it to me for just a week.

FYI - I added pictures to the past 2 posts.