Touring Puebla

Going to church! This was the first LDS chapel in Puebla. 

Outside the LDS chapel. The mission home and apartments were on the premises as well. 

Looking out my bedroom door into the corridor. 

The outside corridor at Celia's house. She just had some corrugated roof put over the space between the two buildings. When it rained it sounded like popcorn popping. 

Where Celia washes her clothes. She has another little courtyard/patio at the end of the corridor where she hangs clothes to dry out on a clothes line. I saw many clothes flapping in the wind over Puebla rooftops.

Celia's kitchen. It might not look pretty, but Celia sure delivered some fabulous meals out of it!

                                               At night we went to a gorgeous overlook.  
                                               

This part of Mexico is known for it's pottery called Telavera. We went to the town of Tlaxcala where they make it. 

Street in Tlaxcala where we bought our Telavera. 

I noticed many streets in Mexico will hang flags between the streets/alleys/houses. It is so pretty. 

Cathedral in Tlaxcala town square. 

Shannon's sister-in-law lives here. Behind that cement wall is actually quite a nice house. That is some unwelcome graffiti on their wall though. 

Next door to the sister-in-law her neighbor runs some kind of mechanic business. He was always welding or tinkering out on the sidewalk in front of his house. When he needed something he would go into his little side alley and pick whatever he needed. I noticed a lot of similar operations as we drove around Mexico. 

Indoor food market in Puebla. It reminded me a lot of Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Chicken anyone?

Getting my first Mexican sandwich called a Cemita. FABULOUS!!!

Beef anyone?

Anytime we met someone interesting Shannon would ask if they were LDS. A lot of the time they were. There are 8 LDS stakes (diocese) in Puebla. At the indoor market this kid was selling limes and he was LDS. He's smiling for you Rosie!

Standing atop the world's smallest volcano. Puebla rooftops, Mexican flag, and the volcano Popocatepetl is in the background. Atop Popocatepetl was were Mexico was dedicated for the preaching of the gospel in 1881. This volcano is still active and always has a stream of smoke coming from it. While I was in Puebla there was a minor earthquake; not sure if it had anything to do with volcanoes, but it was a little unnerving nonetheless. 

Going down into the volcano

Hot springs inside the volcano. This volcano and the big one (Popo.) are connected. The underground tunnels were used by the natives to hide from the Spanish. 

Me inside the volcano!

Standing outside the little volcano. 

A park with exercise equipment. I noticed a lot of parks had this feature. 

Walking around the downtown in the evening. 

There is a middle eastern population in Mexico (Syrian, Lebanon) and they have brought their unique food with them. Everywhere we went there were people slicing off beef or pork that was cooking on these rotating spindles. They serve the meat in flour tortillas. It was good. I also had my first rice drink and it was heaven. 

Guillermo was such a gentlemen and showed all around Puebla. Thank you!

All the fountains in Puebla were lit up at night. 

Everywhere we went there were little shrines to Jesus or a saint. This was in a parking garage.