San Antonio to Oaxaca

We had a great time in San Antonio with my little brother. We hung out, watched movies, petted his friend's dogs, and managed to go bowling. Somehow I'm much better at Wii bowling than real bowling, although Iff managed to get plenty of strikes in...revolting!!! He also managed a ninja throw and at one point achieved a spare by rolling a backwards granny shot, aiming based on what we told him; he didn't even look at the one pin left but managed to hit it. Rank!!!

We left San Antonio yesterday morning and got to Monterrey, Mexico in about 7 hours. Much to our dismay, the US border patrol didn't even speak to us on our way out of the US! So Chris didn't get to surrender his departure card. Grrrrrrr. He'll have to do it when we get back to the US next time. The other pain was that we accidentally left our Mexican tourist forms at my parents' house; they're good for 6 months, and without them we had to buy new ones. Argh.

No matter, we got to Monterrey safely. Then we got a 10-hour bus to Mexico City. We arrived at 4am and were told that the next bus to San Cristobal was at 11:45am. Huh? Instead of waiting around in the cold, boring bus station there, we got a 6-hour bus to Oaxaca, a city we really liked when we were here in March. We're here for a few hours, so we get to stretch our legs by walking along very picturesque cobbled streets and crumbling stone sidewalks. Chris remembered how to get us to a cool vegetarian restaurant we went to a lot last time we were here. Not only did we have some fine food (especially nice after having only snacks on the buses), the waiter remembered us! It's like we have wee homes away from home.

The plan now is to get an overnight bus back to San Cristobal de las Casas, from where we can get a shuttle to Antigua. For now, we get to chill in Oaxaca...time to sample some chocolate!!!