Metztitlan and Mexican Wrestling

Originally I was planning on taking a couple vacation days and heading back up to Ciudad Valles in San Luis Potosí for my 1st Mexican wedding, however on Wednesday when I was supposed to leave, Valles and all the highways leading into the city were underwater and impassable. So, changing plans, I ended up in Metztitlan, Hidalgo again to visit Janet. This was the last weekend of the Metztitlan fair, so there were a bunch of festivities taking place and the main plaza was filled with the normal fair booths, bread stands, and bands. I arrived on Friday night just in time for the fireworks in front of the church. As with most of the fireworks displays, it’s more like a flaming tower where the fireworks make designs or images (see earlier Queretaro entry in September for a video of this). The finale on the Friday night display was a rotating crown on top of the tower that read: Viva Metztitlan 2008.

The main event the next day was a lucha libre (free fight), which is Mexican wrestling featuring a lot of spandex, dancing girls, clowns, and the well-known luchador masks (anyone who saw Nacho Libre can fully understand this spectacle). So Janet and I went to our first lucha libre. This is pretty common in lager cities, for example Puebla has one every Monday night in the lucha libre arena, but it is rare in Metztitlan and took place outside in the bull fighting/rodeo ring. The pictures kinda speak for themselves on this one. And yes, that is a baby being fed Modelo….aka cheap Mexican beer.

Sunday we went for a little hike/walk, but unfortunately I had to leave before the final event of the fair, another rodeo. So here are some more images from Metztitlan.