With what we are imagining is travellers sickness (or Dehydration, Exhaustion, Food Poisoning or a combination of all) we decided to hunker down for the day and abandon plans to travel to a new part of the city. Taking the time to recover, sleep and for me to moderately become obsessed with trying to stitch video footage together (be on the look out for the first video soon!). After a couple of hours of R&R we mustered the energy (and the courage) to leave the hostel and enjoy the birthday present Sarah had booked for me! An evening with the Mexican Luchadores! Dawning our masks we headed into the Arena De Mexico! It was a 3 vs. 3 match of the good guys (represented by more interesting costumes and flair) and bad guys (easily spotted by their generic outfits or heavy use of black and skulls aswell as their distain for the "rules"). The format is the same with Round 1 going to the villains often seen fighting 1 wrestling in a trio before a swift come back of our Heros in Round 2 and finale of over the top aerobatics in Round 3, rinse and repeat 4 more times and you have a show me and Sarah will not soon forget! (Great Present Sarah!).

With the excitement of the night before over we decided to soak up some more culture on a walking tour which answered a lot of the questions we had since arriving in the City like:

Why are all the buildings a bit wonky or bulging -> The City is built ontop of a lake so is very prone to earthquakes and shifts in the land

Are the guys jumping around in Aztec Gear descendants? -> No the bloodlines in Mexico are very diluted from the Spanish invasion that maybe the only pure natives are the Mayas still hidden to the Modern World

How do familys afford their Daughters 15th Year Old Celebration (Qin)? -> They ask their friends to be Godfathers and Godmothers of different aspects of the party (e.g. Godfather of the Cake or Godmother of Drink - A title Sarah was born to wear!)

Why do some many of the national buildings bare resemblance to European Buildings? -> Mexico's Dictator Porfirio (Late 1800's to Early 1900's) was abit obsessed with European Culture, and even my previous mention of the organilleros was because of a gift from the germans to Porfirio (unfortunately the factory which made them was bombed in WWII and hence why all of the boxes in Mexico are woefully out of tune!)

After having the legs truly worn off us we went for food in the famous Cafe De Tacuba before getting showered and ready for the evening. Meeting Gabriel in our Hostel in LA he invited us out for a few drinks with his Mexican Friends which turned out to be a Trivia Night (which was great despite being in Spanish and mostly related solely to Mexican History, Lit, Music and Pop Culture....... we happily sat on the coat tails of our new friends and even won a few beers off of Gabriel's Cat impression! 

A Hangover was the mark of our last day in Mexico City and time to trek deeper into the country of Mexico!