ancient cultures day

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today was about pre colonial cultures. We took our time at the cultural history museum in santo domingo, in the impressive, spotless, vast former monastery turned museum. i think the zapotec and mixtec graphics are so clear, bold and appealing. i wish we knew more about their cultures, how they cared for one another. late in the day we also visited the ruffino tamayo museum which i liked even more than santo domingo for the clarity of the presentation of the artifacts, maybe also because there was a clear affection for the material displayed, wholly lacking from the impersonal santo domingo presentation.

today we also visited the oaxaca textile
museum in a beautifully renovated building, and the mercado which is a thrilling place, but slightly stressful
when trying to account for four or more other people. Both millpatt boys scored fantastic sunglasses that suit them well for slightly less than $7, and andmillpatt scored a hat as well.

we ate our big meal around four pm, in a new effort to share the social
stress of decision making for a crowd assigning the locating of a dining locale to a random group member, which worked out hysterically but fine!