Taxco was a Blast-co!

Oh Taxco! I'm missing that beautiful city already.

Yes. That's the cathedral- not a palace.

For those of you who don't already know, Taxco is another "Magic-City" a couple hours south of Mexico City near Cuernavaca. It's a total of about 6 hours away- with another 2 hours of being in bus stations. So, it's been a long weekend full of traveling.

We left for Taxco at 5:15 in the morning on Saturday and arrived in Taxco around 1:00 or 2:00. We looked around at some of the sights and stores and headed off to where we were going to stay pretty early in the evening.

Now here's probably the most exciting part of the whole trip! Guess where the girls and I stayed? Just guess! We stayed at a MONESTARY!!! How cool is that?!? The ladies at the monestary were probably some of the nicest people that I've ever met in my entire life. The rooms were nice and comfortable- the bathroom had some intense and beautiful tilework, they fed us breakfast and dinner everyday, it was simply amazing! They are going to heaven. For sure. Did I mention that this is all free? Don't worry, we all donated some money. It was the least that we could do for these sweet ladies.

Oh. There were some enormous spiders outside our bedrooms. Take a look at these babies.

The next day we tried to make it to a Taxco branch for their services, but we didn't make it in time. In Mexico, they shut the doors during the sacrament so if you aren't on time, you don't get to take the sacrament. This is for sure a bummer, but a good way to make sure that everyone is on time to church.

Then, we took a combi to "Las Grutas" (the caves). When I read about these cave before going, I thought that they were going to be smaller, cool looking stalagtites and stalagmites. I never expected that we'd be entering a cave that is miles long and each room the size of a football stadium! It was absolutely enormous and the sights were gorgeous! I've never seen anything like it before. These pictures don't even do it justice, but close your eyes and try and imagine. Great huh?

After our long and tretourous hike through the caves, we were all extremely exausted and weren't up for much more than looking at some stores. This may not seem so exciting, but even walking through the city is exausting. The hills are intense!!! But, it's a BEAUTIFUL CITY! We also had the chance to look through a museum.

The last day, our bus left pretty early in the morning so we quickly got the last of the things that we needed and headed off. We got back home at 7:00 that night.

So, it was an exausting but amazing vacation. I'm so glad that I've been able to have so many incredible opportunities in my life and to see so many beautiful places in the world!

In other news- I'm changing host families (for reasons which will remain underwraps). I'm incredibly excited to be with this new host family and I hope that I can learn from them as much as I learned from my last host family. I move tomorrow and I've still got a whole list of things that I need to do before I leave.

Some more exciting news is that I got accepted to BYU-Idaho! I don't know what my track assignment is right now, but I'll keep everybody posted.

I've heard from a lot of you in the last week and it's been so awesome! Keep up the emails and phone calls- I enjoy every single one!