To Brayden

Hey Bray!

It's a beautiful day in Florida. I wish you could come and visit, but too bad you're going to Thailand. I'm sure you'll have a great time there.

Love, Alison

Zoologico

Last week we went to the Zoo in Mexico City, the largest city in Mexico. The zoo was called Zoologico. We saw lots of animals, big and small.

We saw Tigers...


and pandas...


and gorillas...


and jaguars...


and orangutans...


and even a lion!


We had a great time!

Painting is really fun

I got to go to Cuautla with my mommy and daddy to help paint some school rooms. Cuautla is another town, not far from where we are staying.

I was wearing my dad's shirt for a smock and a hat so no paint would get in my hair. We painted rooms in a church with brushes and rollers, but I only got to use the roller a little bit. My mommy wouldn't let me.

On Sunday I got to go to children's church in one of the rooms we had painted. It looked good.

My fort

The Cave

We went to a cave. It was cold and light. We always caught up with the group the moment the lights got turned off.



We decided to take pictures off the sidewalk. I got to climb on some cool rocks - my Daddy helped me. I got to see stalagmites, they're on the ground, and stalactites, they're on the ceiling. They dripped water on me.









That's me and my mommy. My daddy took this picture from the mouth of the cave while we were climbing out.

Gardens.

Yesterday on the way to McDonalds, we saw another pyramid. We couldn't get a picture of it because we didn't have a camera.


I was a little sick earlier in the week, but later I felt good enough to dance!


We also went to a big garden where we saw this statue...



Some ducks...


And some beautiful flowers.


We all had a really good time!

Alison

Taxco, Mexico

We went to Taxco, a silver-mining town, about 2 hours away from our house. For lunch, I ordered pizza. When it came out it had pineapple and ham on it. Daddy told me it was a hawaiian pizza. I'd never tried that before, but I did and I liked it.





We saw a really big church. The inside was covered in gold. Everything was covered in gold! It was really pretty.

We went to a lot of shops and in one, we found a present for my Nana. I picked it out, all by myself.



At the square, we met a guy named Juan Carlos who drew pictures of people. He drew a picture of me and my sister Emily, it's called a caricature.