We went to lucha libre, Mexican wrestling, on Friday with a big group. Our friends Megan and Alejandro organized it. We were thrilled to find out that Mistico, who we had seen at the Basilica, was the headliner that night.
It's a great scene. The ring is a boxing ring out of a film noire; the crowd is half the show. 6 or 8 girls in bikinis come out and stand still while the luchadores are anounced and make their (very grand) entries.
Each round is good guys ('technicos') vs. bad guys (rudos). The first round was all women. Then came 2 guys under 5 ft tall, followed by a round of up-and-comers. Then came a round of guys who are well-known, but not headliners, including one called Maximo, who is a technico whose schtick is to act very effimante: pink mohawk, lots of mincing. He has a mascot named Minimo who is a midget dressed in a monkey costume with a pink mohawk. Political correctness has not arrived at the arena.
Then it was the final match, with Mistico and his crew vs the bad guys. It's all very theatrical, very athletic, and very cathartic. 2 rows in front of us was a 70 yr old woman screaming 'chinga tu madre' ('tu madre' means 'your mother'; chinga means anything you imagine would precede that phrase.) We loved it.
They don't allow cameras in the arena.
Teotihuacan is the awesome temple complex about an hour outside of Mexico City. It has the 3rd largest pyramid in the world. Built (I think) about 2400 yrs ago, it had about 200,000 inhabitants. Most of the structures were originally painted red, while the earth was paved and painted white. And, most impressively, it was built without beasts of burden, wheels used as labor-saving devices, slave labor, or paid workers. It was all volunteer work. 
Our guide was born here, and his father and grandfather were tour guides. He studied 2 yrs for his credentials, and he really knew his stuff. The place was originally dedicated to water: rain, rivers, lakes. The people who built it used both a solar calendar with 365 day years, and a lunar calendar with 270 days per year. Every 52 years the calendars aligned, and they rebuilt their main temples (pyramids), layering a new 'skin' to the existing. So the main structures you see here are actually the 6th layer of building. After about 300 years of glory, the place was abandoned. No one knows why, although drought is a leading theory. I suspect it was the upkeep. 
