It has been a while since my last blog entry and for a good reason. At the last minute I found cheap airline tickets to go home for a whirlwind visit to Tucson for my best friend Yunuen's 30th birthday party. I could barely keep this exciting news to myself and I could barely sleep the week leading up to our departure. What a perfectly wonderful time we had in Tucson! This will be the first of two slide shows detailing our trip to the desert. While there I had the pleasure of going down into Mexico for the afternoon with my personal guide and Mexican native, Yunuen. We headed down I19 toward Nogales. Just out of Tucson we stopped off at San Xavier Mission. If you live in Tucson and have not been here yet- GO! It is such a beautiful place. It is the quintessential Mexican mission. Once back on the road Yunuen gave me some Mexican history lessons. We then stopped in Nogales to see her madre and then hopped back in the car headed south for Magdalena. The scenery just gets more and more beautiful as you go down further into desert and mountains. Once in Magdelena we went straight to the Mission where we visited the carcass of Padre Kino, an Italian Jesuit missionary, who was responsible for establishing a large number of missions in southern Arizona and Northern Mexico between 1687-1711. He also discovered that Baja California was a peninsula rather than an island. We then toured the mission, drove around town, bought homemade tortillas, and then went and ate DELICIOUS Mexican food. On the way home God gave us a beautiful sunset. We had a great day. Thanks mi amiga!!!
