visit from family

We loved having family come.  Unfortunately sickness went around the group.  I stayed home with Spencer one day when the group went out sightseeing.  Then I stayed home with Tyler the next day when he was sick and I was starting to feel ill and the next day I really was ill so I missed some of the action but was glad that Dennis was available when I wan't.  

Dennis had to stay at the clinic on Saturday so I went with our driver Benjamin to Teotihuacan.  It was sunny and bright.  The boys are on top of the Pyramid of the Moon with the Pyramid of the Sun on the left in the background.  We hiked to the top of the Sun.

Benjamin helped Jordan negotiate a price for a dagger and now he is staging a little scare moment for the photo.

Inside the inner court of the temple at Teotihuacan.

The steps of the pyramids are very steep especially it seems steep coming down.  Those people were short and so they practically crawled up the steps in a bent over position.

Jordan ...happy after buying treasures from this woman

                                   The group with the Pyramid of the Sun behind us

An appetizer of crickets on a tortilla at La Gruta restaurant after the pyramids.  Benjamin showed the boys how to pull off the legs and pop it in your mouth.  He said he ate them all the time on his mission.

Tyler trying a cricket.....I don't think he has swallowed it yet.

Rachel ordered corn field soup.  It comes with corn and pumpkin blossoms in the bowl and then from a picture they pour in bean broth.


The boys enjoying authentic food

Those on the other side of the table

Mexico City Temple Visitor Center

It was sunny and bright.  Perhaps some of these boys will be back in a few years with a mission call to speak Spanish.

Dennis turned 69 while the family was visiting.  I like the creativity the boys took in posting greetings on the big white board.  Cake and ice cream and lots of tropical fruit.  We ate at the comodor a lot for breakfast and dinner.

Benjamin and his wife have six boys and one girl with another child on the way.  They used to live in Utah for a while running a catering business.  In Mexico he also caters and is a chauffeur.