Mexico City - Day 1: Arrival

Spring break is upon us again! This year, our spring break trip is to Mexico City - why Mexico City you ask? It is on a ton of Places to Go lists thanks to the food scene, history/cultural offerings, and easy accessibility from the US (many friends have gone or are planning to go soon) but in our case, this trip is also a birthday celebration. LaoYe is turning 70 this year and we asked him where he would like to go to celebrate and he suggested Mexico City -- no need to twist any of our arms!

So it's a big family trip -- Jiujiu and Jiuma, Laolao and Laoye, Baba and Mama and L/R. We don't even fit in a single UberXL. 

The flight out of SFO was a little delayed because of the runway construction but we ended up arriving not too far from schedule. Managed to finally watch Greatest Showman while on the flight - I'm a bit delayed in my movie watching. Nice songs!

Biggest tip for the MEX airport -- bathroom was STINKY. I didn't even go in and even from outside it was very pungent. So...go on the plane or hold it until you get to your hotel. 😆 The customs and immigration lines weren't too long but it still took us an hour or so to get through everything. The Uber picked us up very quickly though and we were off to our rental for the week. Very spacious -- plenty of beds. 

We unpacked and then walked over to Avenue Masaryk for dinner. It is a very clean, wide street with lots of high end shopping (eg, Tiffany) and restaurants. We ended up at Klein's (yes, so Mexico sounding eh?) but they served "homecooking" style food and were well reviewed. I forgot I was blogging this trip and took no photos. 😢 But I thought my sope dish was SUPER tasty. Everyone else liked their selections too (Baba got the chicken tacos, L&R the steak tacos, and Laolao and Laoye shared a club sandwich). After dinner (about $85 for the six of us, with some beers and waters), we walked over to the supermarket to pick up some fruit, cereal, and ice cream - the necessities obviously. 

And then back to the rental -- watched a few episodes of Zhu Yu (the new hit cdrama on Netflix, everyone seems to be recommending it so we decided to give it a shot) and then to bed. 

Tomorrow, Casa Azul and pastries!