Adventures thus far...

Here is a quick recap of some of the adventures that Jonny and I have taken in the past month...we have been busy with work, Spanish classes and moving into our new dream house (pictures to come in the next few days), but between all of that we have been trying to have some fun as well....Last week I was given a pretty hefty promotion at work, and I'm now overseeing and managing the direct sales for the volunteer/study abroad, intern abroad and teach abroad areas of ProWorld. I'm both apprehensive, yet excited about the promotion as all of a sudden it is a lot more responsibility, so I need to step up my game - yet, the cool thing about this is that I am the highest a woman has ever gotten in this company. I work for a boys club and until now only men have held positions like this, so in a way I'm pretty proud to be representing the ladies.

Anyway, here are some pictures of what we have been up to lately.....

We got invited along to go on a Mezcal tour with some friends who work for the Mexican government. We had to ride in the back of a truck to get there, which I didn't totally love cause it's hecka dangerous, but it was kind of fun at the same time.

All of the Mezcal bottles ready to be filled

We also went to a Tejate festival. Tejate is a typical Oaxacan drink that you sip out of a bowl, it is made out cacao, corn, cinnamon, and the mamey fruit. I've never had anything like it, but it was pretty delicious. The festival was packed and essentially everyone was there just to drink this stuff....because there was really nothing else to the festival besides the Tejate.

Yum!

We also went to the mountains and spent two days hiking in the Sierra Norte mountain range. It felt so good to get out of the city and to be in fresh air and nature again....being in pine forests made me miss Minnesota and the cabin, and made me so excited to come home for a week or so this summer...

Jonny climbed to the top of this mirador (lookout), I wasn't feel very brave that day and was afraid that if my climbing skills failed me and I were to slip, I would fall 200+ feet to my death...

.....so I stayed nice and safe here, where it was still quite beautiful

We stayed in this little cabin while in the mountains. The villages in the mountains are all about ecotourism and provide these little cabins and everything, it was super great and really nice to see how well the trails, villages, cabins, etc were preserved and kept as "green" as possible.

After we returned back to the city, we found some really funny looking fruit. You cut it open and then eat the inside - its pretty delicious, but really crazy looking.

And I hung out with monkeys on the street....