More of Mexico City

The Sanborns restaurant in the Blue Tile House had colorfully dressed waitresses.  President Stan and Janet Call.  

We ate lunch in what use to be the second floor ballroom of the house/palace.

Below is the view of first floor from the balcony of the second floor.

We went to a Franciscan Monk church where there were more gold leaf chapels and a huge door with the Apostle Peter carved on the door.  The close up below shows him with the keys of authority given to him to continue the church in the absence of Christ.  Mexico is steeped with Catholic tradition.

We saw a lot of police and military showing their authority.  This was in front of the presidential palace.  Below Dennis is by a fountain inside the center plaza of the presidential palace.  

The Mexican people love their indigenous president Benito Jaurez.

There are many people on the street asking for handouts. This man was playing a hurdy gurdy type of instrument. Many people are dressed in costumes, looking like statues with a cup out front. 

We had walked about 4.5 miles and decided to take a bicycle taxi back to to the parked car.  Below was a picture of inside the taxi.  I was rather surprised to see how close he came to other cars when he was weaving in and out of traffic.   

A cactus with one yellow bloom on top.  Yes bloom where you are planted.

The downtown city actually reminded me a lot of European cities, perhaps in Spain or Italy.