Yesterday, I went for a walk down my favorite avenue in Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma. Here's a brief photo summary of my trip.It started by walking into perhaps a million of Mexico's GLBT community as I guess Saturday was their day to have a national parade. It was interesting to say the least.
(The photo to the right has nothing to do with the parade but instead is a statue commemorating Aztecan warriors who fought for the defense of their homeland.)
This statue above must be important because it was guarded by about 8 policia (of course they just may have been taking a break. The police aren't known for working too hard here in Mexico.)
This is some sort of park ranger. His head is down because he's texting.
This is Mexico's Metropolitan Cathedral, de Maria. It's located in the City's Central Square (by the way the Square is the second biggest in the world behind Moscow's Red Square). It's a famous cathedral for many reasons. Of one, it is built atop Aztecan ruins (which explains the cordoned off, glass floor display). Also Napolean III's implant Maximilian and his wife Carlota had their coronation here, marking their tenure as Mexico's last monarchs in the early 1860s.
What a day to forget my paraguas (umbrella). I had to stop at this place for a beer and then the roof blew out from over me. I left for the next closest shelter...
Which apparently was housing a mariachi convention.
Lastly a photo of the gay pride parade. This was after it had rained, literally on their parade. All in all they still seemed happy.
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