Catch up

Time to play catch up! At the end of June, we enjoyed a wonderful trip to Mexico City....meeting up with a couple of our missionaries from Spain.  They treated us like royalty.

The Flores parents had a layover in Phoenix on their way to Utah a couple of weeks before our trip.  We were pleased by the chance to host them for a few hours. We took them to see a couple of temples and let them crash for a few hours.

 

 

 

Brother Flores was particularly glad to be at the Mesa temple as that was where his parents were sealed. It was on their anniversary too.

 

Our Missionaries picked us up at the airport...a fun reversal of roles as Rod had done that for them often during the mission. We stayed with the Flores family and loved getting to know older brother Alex.  Papa Flores works out of town and is only home for the weekends so we didn't get to see him.

 

Our first 'sight' was the National Autonomous University of Mexico. (both missionaries attend here)   This is the library covered by mosaic by Carlos Lazo...The colors of the mosaic are made by native stone from around Mexico.  It was just awesome. 



 

 It's a huge school and some of the buildings were used during the Mexican Olympics.  The Flores were our guides and transportation for most of our trip.

 I thought this building was very cool too!

That first evening we had dinner with the Rojas family.  These young men know my husband well.

 

They had forgotten why standing next to Rod for a photo is dangerous.....wedgie.

 It was such fun!

 The next day we enjoyed murals by Diego Rivera  at the National Palace.

Sculptures in front of the cathedral

 I really liked this one too.  I love the contrast between ancient, traditional, and modern art.
The epic will continue later....