We took an express trip last weekend to a city up in the mountains called Real de Catorce. Its a beautiful little city with old rocky streets and some beautiful architecture in the town center. In order to get there you have to take a bus through a 3 mile tunnel under a mountain. When you get out to the other side it is as if you have walked back 100 years in time. This is also the city where they filmed the movie "the Mexican" with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Rumor is there is a small shrine to Brad Pitt somewhere in the city, but I never found it-just good homemade food and soup, and a couple amazing horseback trips. The first day we took a tour on horseback up the mountain to the mining ruins. It was beautiful. This was the original town before the mining industry went down significantly, over 100 years ago. The second day we ate breakfast at a creperie run by a husband and wife from Switzerland. They had really good coffee. We then took a large trip up into the mountains. It was so barren and beautiful, like out of a picture. Unfortunately my horse didn't like Katie's horse and if it got too close my horse would kick her. That, and from time to time our horses would decide to randomly break into a gallop and speed off in any direction. It made for a very interesting and exhilarating trip. We got back and we were all really sattle sore. I was actually happy to get off my horse. Our trip was a great break after exams and I got to meet some new people that were a bunch of fun to travel with. Some buddies from Austria, one from Germany, one from here in Mexico, the gringos and one from Prague, Czech Republic. It was a lot to cram into a weekend, but I'm very glad we went.
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