Posting from Puebla

A few weeks ago I got to go see a little bit of Puebla with my family! I loved what we saw and I wish that we had had more time to see even more of the beautiful city. We spent the first part of the day at the markets, of course. I love looking at everything there is buy! I just wish two things-that I could just buy everything, and that everything that I would buy if I could would fit in my suitcases. :)

Mis tias, hermanita, y mama

 This was the first cathedral that we went to first-The Cathedral of San Francisco. I really like how the inside was set up with several large chapels. It is so interesting though how so much of this cathedral focused on dead people and their bodies, or representations of their bodies in glass cases just sitting there. It is told that one of the priests body was found basically muffified hundreds of years ago and his body is still there in the case...it was rather interesting.

 This cathedral behind is know to have the largest towers on a cathedral in Mexico! This one was absolutely beautiful!

 The ceilings were so tall and beautiful with the large chandeliers.

 The organ was one of my favorite parts. There was a large middle section and 2 side sections that you can't see in the picture and then an outside section which is in the picture below. I just wish someone had been there playing it and letting it echo throughout the cathedral down into our bones!

 Back in the day this was largest library in the Latin Americas. In this same building there were several beautiful art exhibits that were up. There was a lot of modern art but the more traditional art that was down back in the  60's was my favorite because it showed more of what the culture would have been there back in that time.

 Facing my worse fear...The carousel that looks out over the entire city. It takes about 20 minutes to go around once because it moves so slowly. You couldn't even feel that we were moving, but it still scared the bejeebers out of me.  

 Puebla's state capitol building view from the carousel, flying the Mexican flag!

part two of Puebla to be continued...The Circus!