Yesterday we had a mountian top experience. Literally. We climbed up to the top of one of the mountians surrounding Tlaxiaco. It took us over two hours to get to the top, and I think it was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life, and it gave me a completely different picture of Moses climbing up the mountain to meet with God! It was completely worth it though, becasue the view from the top was absolutely amazing. At the top, we chilled and ate lunch, and then had a time of praying over the city. It was incredible to think that this is the view of Tlaxiaco that God has all the time. He is always looking over the city! After we spent some time on the top we climbed back down (actually it was more like running down the mountain! We all fell so many times, and we laughed a ton. It took us more than 2 hours to get up the mountain and only 40 minutes to get back down!) 
Yesterday night, all of the girls were also invited to a Quinceaños. It was a really fun look into such an important part of the culture here! It is such a huge deal here, but after watching everything that the quinceñera had to do, we were pretty glad that it wasn´t our fifteenth birthday party! I even thought it was really funny when some of the people we talked to were surprised that we didn´t have anything like a Quinceaños in the states! There were lots of cultural and traditional type dances with the quinceñera and 3 "cabelleros" who were actually three guys about her age. For most of the night she was dressed in this huge pink princess dress, but for one of the dances they did the cumbia and all changed into less formal clothes. There was food, and then more dancing with everyone. Toward the end even all of us joined in the dancing, even though we really had no idea what we were doing. Mexicans, though, love to dance! We left at around 1 in the morning, but the party was still going strong!
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