Mexican Water, Anyone?

We’ve been in Mexico City four days and have already learned quite a lot! Here are some of our nuggets of wisdom:

*Beware of the Mexican water. Not because it’s never a good idea to drink local water as a foreigner but because Mexican water is code for Tequila!
*Visit the Pyramid of the Sun; the view from the top is spectacular. And if you have to climb down on your bottom, don’t be embarrassed ‘cause that’s how everybody does it.
*People running around the streets in their underwear are not weird, they are protesting. What, you ask? No one knows.
*It’s okay if you don’t speak Spanish. Thanks to the good people at Starbucks, Grande Carmel Macchiato is universal.

Surprisingly enough we have yet to be deported or lost; however, Mary did lose her room key. To find it, she named the card Paco and then proceeded to shout, “Donde esta Paco?” throughout the night. We’ve also had the pleasure of gracing Mexico City with our Song and Dance (which originated in Nigeria) and thanks to the Hotel Sevilla’s glass elevators, everyone there can say they have seen us live!

This trip to Mexico City is the first Mary and I have taken together since October 2007. And perhaps because of that, we have discovered that we have some shared aspirations. So (drum roll please) here is our list of must -dos:

1. Try out for the Olympics…Michael Phelps might have the whole swimming thing locked but we too have found our Olympic spotlight…London 2012 Trampoline Gymnastics here we come!

2. Attend the Democratic National Convention in our patriotic t-shirt (which boldly states on front, “No McCain is not too old” and on the back, “We support Paris for V.P.”), followed by a trip to the Republican Convention in our “Obama or Bust” T’s

3. Ride a camel to a pyramid in Egypt to have tea at the top. We now have a thing for pyramids… (Side Note from Lenny: I hope this time Mary remembers her sun block – let’s just say Rudolph’s nose is nothing compared to hers. Side note from Mary: I DID put on sun block. Who knew you have to reapply so often?)

4. After showcasing our song and dance at the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon in Mexico, we have decided to add more tour dates to the schedule…please leave your comments to which countries you would like us to appear in and keep your eye on this blog for our next venue.

Although this list may seem weird, the idea of daring to do the ridiculous or impossible is one that we need to embrace. There is something about sitting at the top of a pyramid built by a civilization even older than the Aztecs that makes you wonder what mark do you leave on the world? Will you build something that others will gaze at long after you are gone? What is the ripple effect that you will leave on the world?

Sitting at the top of the pyramid, we realized that Arthur O'Shaughnessy had it right when he wrote, “We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” So whatever Pyramid you are trying to build… build on!!!

Globally yours,
Lenny and Mary