Tuesday's Castle

Tuesday morning, earlier than we'd have liked, we got up and got our suitcases packed.  We knew we'd be heading out to Cuernavaca for the rest of our trip (another Fulbright teacher lives there and graciously offered her house to us to make our nesting point for our day trips on Wednesday and Thursday), so we had to pack up and leave our beloved Emporio.

We left our luggage with the front desk, assuming we'd be back around 3 to pick it up.  We still had the castle to see from the day before and the entire south circuit on the Turibus (there are two separate buses, but one ticket gets you both- likely because there's no way to see them both!).  
We made our way to the castle and LOVED it.  There was a bit too much history and not enough information, but we loved it nonetheless.  It was interesting to see how each ruler had used the rooms for different things (as vastly different as bedroom to office to dining room).  It reminded me a lot of Versailles, which makes sense since a Frenchman lived there for awhile.  I can't remember if he had it built or not.  
While we were there, we saw the cutest group of kids with their three moms.  The little girls were dressed in adorable dresses and cute shoes and the little boy was a rascal but cute in his shorts and polo and gelled hair.  The moms clearly had money and we were jealous of the clothes they were wearing.
At some point during our tour, Paloma texted me asking how we were getting to Cuernavaca.  When I told him by bus, he asked if we needed a ride to the bus station.  It would be at least a 45 minute ride, which would make for a relatively expensive taxi.  He got off work at 6 and worked somewhat close to where our hotel (and therefore luggage) was.  I told him I thought we'd be getting back more like 2 or 3pm, but we would let him know and thanks for the offer.
The rest of these pictures are from our day at the castle.  Again, of course I took a thousand more, but these are a good sample of the ones I liked.  As we left the castle, Ashley was on a mission to find another agua de fresa, but we were unsuccessful.  Outside the castle, there was stand after stand after stand of things for sale.  Not one was agua de fresa.  We settled for 5 peso (that's right) homemade ice cream.  It had a semi-cotton candy texture (I know that's weird).  It was different, but delicious.