Picture Post: Adventures in Mexico City

By: Meradeth Houston on 4:00 AM

This past week I've had the awesome pleasure of traveling to Mexico City to work with some fabulous people who work here:

This is the Instituto National de Medicina Genomica. Or, the National Institute of Genomic Medicine :) Talk about a work perk! This campus was awesome--sparking clean, fabulous labs, all sorts of great tech (there's nothing like high throughput sequencing machines to make yours truly geek out!). Seriously, this place was incredible. And the people were even more amazing. The lab here is chock full of some of the best researchers on the planet, six of whom I had the pleasure of working with extensively. I've never been treated so well anywhere else that I've traveled, either for work or personal.

We had one of the most amazing meals at this 300 year old Hacienda. Super fun!

The central place in Tlalpan--an older neighborhood in the city, where the priests used to go to rest. Now it's completely engulfed, but super cute to explore. 

So I was trying to figure out why there was a minaret (or something that at least looked like such), in the middle of the city. No one knew, and guessed that someone just wanted to build one :)

I'm a *tad* bit addicted to cool murals and street art in all its forms. This was on the side of women's and children's center.

Church. Through the front gates because it was closed. 

Mary, blessing the cars in the parking lot she guarded.

The National Museum of Anthropology. Which is, of course, the coolest place in the city. Spent a day in the back collections, looking at mummies and teeth that had been drilled to inlay turquoise, as well as the 1000's of skeletal remains. AKA, heaven.

And one last silly one from a menu from an Argentinian restaurant we went to. Meat Juice anyone? (Why, yes, I am sometimes ten years old, why'd ask? :)

Anyhow, just a few little highlights (and not the best photos--I've been a little busy this trip! Lots of cool work to do!) of a fabulous week in a country I love :)