the good life

To celebrate the re-opening of things yesterday, I decided to skip work and go live it up at the country clubs of Etla, Mexico. Etla is about a 20 minute/40 peso colectivo ride from el central, and while the majority of it is full of rural homes and things, there are also these random balnearios (very high end community pools/country club-type place). You pay 60 pesos (about $5 - $6) and you can spend all day there. We went to one called Vista Hermosa, which had about 10 pools and was pretty much vacant. Eventually more people came, but it was good fun.
After our pool party, we went to the buffet, which is this giant all you can eat buffet filled with all the deliciousness you could possible imagine in Mexico. For 120 pesos, you gorge yourself for as long as you want. The place was huge, and had a playground and waterfalls and a random plane that you could sit in and watch little kid movies. I knew immediately it was very high end because the airplane had real live air conditioning (first time I've been anywhere in Mexico with air conditioning) and you were allowed to throw the toilet paper in the toilet (kinda gross, I know, but that's seriously an indicator that you are in the presence of the rich and famous). We went through 3 rounds of tamales and mole and papas and tostadas and tacos al pastor, etc., went out, took a walk to digest, took a nap in the airplane, and then went back for rounds 4 and 5.

And then we waddled back to town to get a colectivo home. All in all, a good day. More fotos on Flickr.Peace.