What’s 80 metres high, spins, and costs $2.50 per person? La Estrella de Puebla – the new ferris wheel in the city of Puebla!
After our friends Tina and Tiffany tried it and survived (and recommended it), we decided to take a day off and try it for ourselves. It was great! Here’s a quick video, in case you can’t make it yourself:
I’m not sure if I’ve showed this video before or not. It’s a tourism video that gives you a little glimpse of just how COOL Mexico City is! 😉
What a great day yesterday! 26 people were baptized from the two Sendero de Vida churches in Ixtapaluca. Take the time (less than 3 minutes) to watch the video below and praise the Lord with us!
Back in April we went with our friends the O’Briens to Kidzania in Mexico City. Since some of you have been curious about the place, I put together a few video clips to give you an idea what it’s like. First, here’s the description of the idea from the Kidzania website:
KidZania provides children and their parents a safe, unique, and very realistic educational environment that allows kids between the ages of four to twelve to do what comes naturally to them: role-playing by mimicking traditionally adult activities. As in the real world, children perform “jobs” and are either paid for their work (as a fireman, doctor, police officer, journalist, shopkeeper, etc.) or pay to shop or to be entertained. The indoor theme park is a city built to scale for children, complete with buildings, paved streets, vehicles, a functioning economy, and recognizable destinations in the form of “establishments” sponsored and branded by leading multi-national and local brands.
Once again I had some trouble with the video, and so it mostly has no sound. Which means that the software I use is so old it’s time to move on. But rather than re-do the entire thing (and make you wait a few more weeks!) I’m posting it as-is.
If you don’t like silence, put on your own music while you watch. 😉
We’re encouraged by the growing passion that believers in Mexico have to reach out to Muslims with God’s love. Here’s a little video contrasting two short passages about the crucifixion, one from the Qur’an and one from the Bible.
Please pray for our Mexican brothers and sisters, and other friends, who are sharing with those in the religion of Islam. May more be raised up who will carry the Truth to nations around the world.
We’re continuing our catch-up about events from the past few days. Last week we took a few days off as a family, and one day we went to the Mexico City zoo. We haven’t been in a long time.
It was insanely busy, but eventually we got to see a few animals.
The zoo is a great place to praise God for His amazing creations. I took a few pictures (which are in our photo gallery), and you can see about a minute of video below (for some reason it has no sound – but that’s ok. These animals were pretty quiet. It was the people who were noisy!).
One of the most interesting things we saw was an exhibit with mostly venomous and non-venomous snakes (and some frogs and lizards etc). Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to take pictures or video in there. Quite the creatures though.
We saw a LOT of different varieties of rattlesnake, and discovered that we live in prime rattlesnake territory. Which makes us feel really good, and I’m sure it makes you feel good too.
If you’re not on our site and can’t see the video below, click here.)