Sat, 20 May 2006
DebConf6 Day Trip
As anticipated things began to run much more smoothly once the
conference had actually kicked off. Which was quite good, since
Wednesday/Thursday were pretty active days with the Day Trip on Wednesday
and the Formal Dinner on Thursday. I had not been to sure whether I should
go on the day trip or just stay home and sleep in for once, go to the pool,
rest a bit and basically do all the other stuff I didn't get around to
since I got here. In the end I did go though, and I am really happy about
it now. At least for me the day trip was a full success! We were picked up
around noon by a fleet of absolutely awesome fifties buses, all
streamlined with loads of chrome, pastel colours, saints icons, playboy
bunny heads and nice comfortable plush seats.
Xochicalco is a pretty
interesting site and our guide gave us a really nice tour of the museum and
the ruins. I didn't really mind the heat since I had put on enough sun
screen and brought long loose fitting cloths and a lot of water. Such
equipped I actually even enjoyed the dry heat and of course the spectacular
site. As usual, I did take pictures and haven't found the time to actually
upload them yet.
After the tour of the ruins we went for a late lunch to some place of which I sadly don't remember the name. The food there was the best I've had through the whole DebConf and it was pretty fun. One of the kitchen ladies wanted to take a picture with me. Don't know why, but it was pretty amusing since the whole kitchen crowd seemed to have immense fun with the whole thing. So, whatever, maybe one day I'll come back and find the picture on a wall. Who knows :)
After finishing our meal we went to Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos State, which has a large handicraft market. Unfortunately I had taken much more time for the lunch than anticipated so we only had 45 minutes to have a walk and buy some souvenirs. But it was fun anyway. The only drawback of the day was that we had to skip the guided tour in Cuernavaca since we were so late and had to be back to Oaxtepec for dinner. But there is already quite a list of stuff I actually wanted to do when here, so a tour of Cuernavaca goes to the long "One day I'll be back" list.
Summary: Great Day Trip! Well done. Cool buses!! Have to extend that once I am back *sigh*
Posted at: 19:20 in /english/debian/events/debconf6
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