We took a short trip to Mexico some weeks ago, flying with Delta Airlines and staying at the Plaza Suites in Mexico City. Then after doing some research we decided that staying in Mexico City probably wasn't the best idea seeing as it is one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Mexican books and movies were a little hard to come by, so we made do with a screening of The Three Amigos and a taco night at home.
The girls also made some mexican paper dolls, did a Mexican Symbols word search and learned about the flag's very complicated symbols of an eagle eating a rattlesnake while standing with its left claw upon a nopal cactus, with a half circle of green oak on the left (strength) and laurel branches on the right (victory). All this is from an Aztec legend in which the god Huitzilopochtli described to his people where they would find their promised land. And they did find it, exactly as he described. They named their home Tenochtitlan ("Place of the Nopal Cactus"). It is now Mexico City.
Our next stop is R's choice - Botswana.
Mexico has got to have the most complicated flag in the world. I got lost just reading the explanation! However we think watching The Three Amigos was very cultural along with the tacos. Yum!
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