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		<title>Dia de los Muertos: homemade sugar skulls &amp; an ofrenda for Marcia</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/10/23/dia-de-los-muertos-homemade-sugar-skulls-an-ofrenda-for-marcia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calaveras de azucar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) was always one of my favorite holidays during my time living in Mexico. The elaborate, colorful ofrendas (altars)&#8230; the well-dressed Catrina statues&#8230; the tasty pan de muerto&#8230;the fascinating traditions at the cemetaries&#8230; It was so interesting to spend two years in a culture that not only felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condesa &amp; Roma: the trendy neighborhoods of Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/07/26/condesa-roma-the-trendy-neighborhoods-of-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/07/26/condesa-roma-the-trendy-neighborhoods-of-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please check out my latest article up on the Mexico Today website&#8211; http://mexicotoday.org/article/condesa-roma-trendy-neighborhoods-mexico-city!  This month I&#8217;m recounting some of the highlights of our favorite colonias in DF&#8211; Condesa and Roma, located just east of Chapultepec Park.
Some of the hyperlinks to the businesses I mentioned didn&#8217;t come through on the Mexico Today page, so I&#8217;m including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico Today- Keep track of all the news!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/06/29/mexico-today-keep-track-of-all-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/06/29/mexico-today-keep-track-of-all-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coyoacan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am excited to have the opportunity to continue working with the Mexico Today program in 2012!  (You may recall my post on this from last year.)  We have even more great contributors involved this time around, and there are a whole host of ways for you to keep track of what&#8217;s new and exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Mexico City!!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/01/06/back-to-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2012/01/06/back-to-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greatest Hits Tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past year has been a struggle for me &#38; John to readjust from the &#8220;every other weekend = a 3-day+ vacation to a beach, jungle, colonial town or archaeological site&#8221; schedule that we got accustomed to living in Mexico City.   (Yes, I can almost feel your waves of sympathy washing over me.)   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays from Midwesterner in Virginia</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/12/26/happy-holidays-from-midwesterner-in-virginia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/12/26/happy-holidays-from-midwesterner-in-virginia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Taste of Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee cakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merry Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A belated Merry Christmas &#38; Happy Holidays to all from me &#38; John here in Arlington, Virginia!  Thanks so much for continuing to visit this blog &#38; offer your comments. I love hearing from everyone who has Mexico questions, anecdotes, &#38; tips to share.
We interspersed some Mexico into 2011&#8217;s Annual Baking of the Cranberry Almond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating New Year&#8217;s Eve in DF</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/12/25/celebrating-new-years-eve-in-df/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/12/25/celebrating-new-years-eve-in-df/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feliz año nuevo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fin de año nuevo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We found celebrating the Año Nuevo in Mexico City to be a bit different than our prior U.S.-based New Year&#8217;s Eve festivities.  In the U.S., pressure always feels high among the 20/30-something crowd to have THE MOST AMAZING NIGHT OUT of your life.  This usually involves spending 2x what you would normally spend on dinner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our First Christmas Posada in Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/12/18/our-first-christmas-posada-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/12/18/our-first-christmas-posada-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas traditions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many Mexican Christmas traditions I&#8217;m missing while back in the US this year is the posada. The season of posadas began on Friday, December 16th&#8211; nine days before Christmas.  When we lived in Mexico City, this marked both a time of holiday joy &#38; grinchy anger, because of the sharp uptick in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s happening this December in Mexico City?</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/11/27/whats-happening-this-december-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/11/27/whats-happening-this-december-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[December 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ice rink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Magia de Navidad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navidad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zocalo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[December in Mexico City is jam-packed with opportunities for celebration, highlighted by the Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe on Dec 12, posadas, office parties, Christmas, and New Year&#8217;s Eve, just to name a few.  I found during our time in DF that the Mexico City goverment (a.k.a. &#8220;GDF&#8221;&#8211; Gobierno del Distrito Federal) really gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baja California Sur Roadtrip: Part 2- Los Cabos</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/11/10/baja-california-sur-roadtrip-part-2-los-cabos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/11/10/baja-california-sur-roadtrip-part-2-los-cabos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baja California Sur State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cabo San Lucas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casa de Mario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Arco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Cabos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Office]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In follow up to my prior post regarding our Baja California Sur roadtrip, we continued on from Todos Santos to Cabo San Lucas, the most well-known spot for tourists. I will admit to being a bit skeptical of visiting Cabo prior to our arrival&#8230; I feared the existence of too many all-inclusive resorts &#38; too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Guilty Pleasure: El Colesterol</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/10/27/musical-guilty-pleasure-el-colesterol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/10/27/musical-guilty-pleasure-el-colesterol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaparrita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crap music videos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fito Olivares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funny music videos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to share another musical guilty pleasure with you, which I just discovered today in Atlanta. My job brings me to Atlanta on occasion to visit clients, and there&#8217;s definitely a larger Mexican population there than the DC area. One benefit of this is the food&#8211; while I&#8217;ve not yet had any autentico tacos, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Mexico fan? Tell us about it &amp; win $500!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/10/23/are-you-a-mexico-fan-tell-us-about-it-win-500/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/10/23/are-you-a-mexico-fan-tell-us-about-it-win-500/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been sitting at your computer, paging through this blog, and thought to yourself, &#8220;You know, Julie is not the only one with stories to tell about Mexico&#8230;. I too have lots of witty/touching/inspiring/riveting things to share about this country! When will I be given the chance to share my stories about Mexico??&#8221;
My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A race to the finish: our final days in Mexico City!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/10/23/a-race-to-the-finish-our-final-days-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/10/23/a-race-to-the-finish-our-final-days-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ángel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bucket list]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Casa Luis Barragan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[churros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dulce patria]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿One year ago last weekend, John &#38; I were on our way to the Mexico City airport for the flight that would end our 2+ year experience as chilangos.  All our worldly possessions were packed, all our kitschy souvenirs had been purchased, all the tacos al pastor that one person should ingest in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baja California Sur Roadtrip: Part 1-Todos Santos</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/09/25/baja-california-sur-roadtrip-part-1-todos-santos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/09/25/baja-california-sur-roadtrip-part-1-todos-santos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baja California Sur State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baja California Sur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabo San Lucas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel Riazor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Paz]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we assessed our options for a longer vacation in Mexico over Semana Santa last year, we asked ourselves the question that most tourists as themselves: what would Jennifer Aniston, Leonardo DiCaprio, &#38; Cindy Crawford do for their vacations?   Well, as it turns out, what they would do is prance around in their swimsuits at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16 Tips for a great Mexican Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/09/15/16-tips-for-a-great-mexican-independence-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/09/15/16-tips-for-a-great-mexican-independence-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=3047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered whether Mexico gets as excitable for its Independence Day as the United States does for the Fourth of July?  Are you curious what traditions Mexico has that parallel the American traditions of eating your body weight in grilled meat, dressing up in a t-shirt emblazoned with a bald eagle wrapped in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparkling Wineries in Querétaro: Viva Freixenet!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/08/29/sparkling-wineries-in-queretaro-viva-freixenet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/08/29/sparkling-wineries-in-queretaro-viva-freixenet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Querétaro State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cavas Freixenet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freixenet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freixenet World's Wine Bar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Redonda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruta de Queso y Vino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tequisquiapan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vino]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[winery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve shared before how I&#8217;m a sucker for well-branded tourism, so Querétaro&#8217;s efforts to promote their wine &#38; cheese &#8220;route&#8221; certainly did not fall on deaf ears during my time in México. Even before we made our trip to Finca Vai for some cheese tasting, we drove from Mexico City to the same area in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the word &#8220;exposé&#8221; overly dramatic for a post about avocado prices in Arlington, VA?</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/08/17/is-the-word-expose-overly-dramatic-for-a-post-about-avocado-prices-in-arlington-va/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/08/17/is-the-word-expose-overly-dramatic-for-a-post-about-avocado-prices-in-arlington-va/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Taste of Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food prices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[price comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of the highlights of life in Mexico City that we were the most sad to leave behind were 1) the amazing array of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat available to us at incredibly reasonable prices, and 2) the new world of fantastic Mexican food that we&#8217;d discovered (vastly unlike what we&#8217;d been exposed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheese Tourism in Mexico: a visit to Finca Vai</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/08/15/cheese-tourism-in-mexico-a-visit-to-finca-vai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/08/15/cheese-tourism-in-mexico-a-visit-to-finca-vai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Querétaro State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finca VAI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City daytrips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Querétaro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruta de Queso y Vino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tequisquiapan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tours]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cheese and dairy products in general are one of my favorite things to eat. So when I learned via Querétaro&#8217;s robust tourism board of a nearby farm that combined cheese-making with a barnyard animal petting zoo, it seemed like a no-brainer.  The fact that it was basically a simulated visit to the Midwest was just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guayaberas: the must-have men&#8217;s summer shirt of Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/07/27/guayaberas-the-must-have-mens-summer-shirt-of-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/07/27/guayaberas-the-must-have-mens-summer-shirt-of-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Centro Historico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guayaberas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guayaberas Yucachen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican wedding shirts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One excellent souvenir for any man visiting Mexico is the guayabera. To me, this is the consummate summertime shirt for men who want to look good but can&#8217;t be bothered to wear a stuffy suit. I won&#8217;t get into the historical debate about its origins, but within Mexico it originated in the Yucatan. Some Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the Alebrije Hotspot of Oaxaca</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/07/25/visiting-the-alebrije-hotspot-of-oaxaca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/07/25/visiting-the-alebrije-hotspot-of-oaxaca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alebrijes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacobo and Maria Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite parts of my trip my recent Oaxaca trip via Mexico Today turned out to be the visit we made to the small town of San Martín Tilcajete. When John &#38; I visited Oaxaca back in 2009, we&#8217;d heard from friends about all the little villages specializing in various handicrafts that are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Upcoming Random Events in Mexico City &amp; beyond!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/07/06/upcoming-random-events-in-mexico-city-beyond/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/07/06/upcoming-random-events-in-mexico-city-beyond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hidalgo State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my continuing &#8220;Live Vicariously Through My Friends in Mexico&#8221; program, I wanted to alert y&#8217;all to some upcoming events in DF, Quintana Roo, and Hidalgo state that I thought may be worth checking out. Rest assured I continue to keep my finger on the pulse of kitschy activities despite my absence from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping in the Mexico City Airport</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/06/28/shopping-in-the-mexico-city-airport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/06/28/shopping-in-the-mexico-city-airport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aeropuerto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DesignMX]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you regular readers may have gathered by this point, there are few things I love more than products with a Mexican theme and kitschy shops for hipsters. When these worlds combine, good things happen.
I certainly didn&#8217;t expect to find this combo inside the Mexico City airport. But as I wandered through Terminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fields of Oaxaca</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/06/24/the-fields-of-oaxaca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/06/24/the-fields-of-oaxaca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airplane photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[farm fields]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe it was a famous photographer who once said, &#8220;Some of the best photos this world has seen were taken from small, fogged-up airplane windows while flying over the state of Oaxaca.&#8221;  Even if that&#8217;s not true, I&#8217;m still going to subject you to a photo I snapped on our descent into the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mexico Today!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/06/21/mexico-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/06/21/mexico-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friends &#38; family can confirm that I rarely pass up the chance to promote all-things-Mexico. Whether it be travel, food, drink, people, glassware, professional wrestling&#8211; you name it and I can probably spend an hour of your time raving about it. (Well, maybe everything except the chapulines. While I have sampled the crispy critters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Burros are Back!!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/04/26/the-burros-are-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/04/26/the-burros-are-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Burro Fair!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burro Festival!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donkey festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estado de Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feria Nacional del Burro]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some things are so important to alert my readers to that I have to emerge from my 2-month blog hibernation to do so.  Any guesses what could possibly make that exclusive priority list? The Feria Nacional del Burro, of course!!
For any readers who had the misfortune of missing my live coverage from the National Donkey Fair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Decor: more is more</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/02/24/mexican-decor-more-is-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/02/24/mexican-decor-more-is-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in DC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agave wall sticker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexican decor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Westholm]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an affinity for Mexican-themed decor at an early age, judging by this clay taco I just unearthed from my box of &#8220;Julie&#8217;s Elementary/Junior High School Stuff&#8221;.
For anyone wondering&#8211; no, this is not a rabbit poo taco. Those small brown pellets are obviously ground beef, accompanied by orange shredded cheese, thin pieces of green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnitas: bring that porky magic to your own kitchen</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/01/24/carnitas-bring-that-porky-magic-to-your-own-kitchen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/01/24/carnitas-bring-that-porky-magic-to-your-own-kitchen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best tacos in Mexico City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though we&#8217;ve only been out of Mexico for three months now, we&#8217;re already starting to get the DTs for some good tacos. (or perhaps the more appropriate term is TTs&#8211; taqueria tremens??) We&#8217;ve not done an exhaustive taqueria inventory in the DMV area, but we are starting to get skeptical enough that I&#8217;ve begun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ingredients for a Great Mexican Despedida</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/01/09/ingredients-for-a-great-mexican-despedida/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2011/01/09/ingredients-for-a-great-mexican-despedida/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[despedida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farewell party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[going-away party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mariachi band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mesero Jose Cosme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tacos al pastor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One Spanish word we quickly learned while living among the highly-transient expat population in Mexico City was despedida, a.k.a. farewell party. There seemed to be one happening on a monthly basis in our apartment building alone. As we approached the last few months of our time in Mexico, we paid more attention &#38; made lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mezcalerias vs. Home Depot on a Friday night&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/12/10/mezcalerias-vs-home-depot-on-a-friday-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/12/10/mezcalerias-vs-home-depot-on-a-friday-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adjusting to life in US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blugrn design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[District Taco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico in DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hope to do a more reflective &#8220;my time in Mexico &#38; how things are different here, etc. etc.&#8221; post in the near future. But for the moment, I wanted to share a snippet that really sums it up for me personally:
Average Friday Night in Mexico City:

get online
find address for hip new mezcalería/taquería/trendy bar/tasty restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please make me some jello, Mexico-style</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/12/01/please-make-me-some-jello-mexico-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/12/01/please-make-me-some-jello-mexico-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3D jello molds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gelart Floral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gelatinas Individuales 3D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican jello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nestled among the names of a few restaurants &#38; esoteric museums on my &#8220;Things I Didn&#8217;t Get to Do While I Was in Mexico City&#8221; inventory, one activity regarding jello sits there on my list of regrets. Jello wrestling, you ask optimistically? No, my friends. It is actually a cooking class that I had my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/31/happy-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/31/happy-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Taste of Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visits back in the US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucha libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[return to the States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A very Happy Halloween to all those here in the US this evening! Today marks our official re-entry into Normal Life 2.0, as we arrived this evening back to Arlington, Virginia after 2 years and 3 months living in Mexico City. We&#8217;ve been on a 2700+ mile road trip starting in Denver, Colorado on October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subtle Messages&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/13/subtle-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/13/subtle-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Driving in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[owls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-Mexico blogging plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signs from Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time to go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiny about leaving Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We fly out of Mexico City bright and early tomorrow. As sad as we are to leave, I do feel we&#8217;ve been getting small, subtle signals from Mexico that our time here is meant to come to an end.
1) We got rear-ended last Thursday, 3 days after having $6000 pesos of car work done to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you think about public transit in Mexico City??</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/12/what-do-you-think-about-public-transit-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/12/what-do-you-think-about-public-transit-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City public transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican Institute for Competitiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[think-tank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a random email yesterday from the Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (a.k.a. the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness). Take a look at the text below:
***************************
Dear Julie,

I work for the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness  (IMCO), a local think-tank focused on issues of competitiveness. I&#8217;m  currently involved in a project about urban mobility in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico Driving Hazards</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/10/mexico-driving-hazards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/10/mexico-driving-hazards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Driving in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balloons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival Olímpico Bicentenario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what could go wrong?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re staying in the Marriott Reforma for our last week here in DF, so please forgive the lack of communication&#8211; internet in our hotel room costs $250 pesos/day (gag). I&#8217;d been having luck standing against the window of our spot on the 14th floor &#38; connecting to &#8220;Mexico Ciudad Digital&#8221;, the only unsecured network in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Festival this weekend in Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/08/olympic-festival-this-weekend-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/08/olympic-festival-this-weekend-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival Olímpico Bicentenario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Phelps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re hanging around Mexico City this weekend, consider checking out the Festival Olímpico Bicentenario. This Bicentennial thing just keeps on coming!! It wouldn&#8217;t be a festival in Mexico if a major thoroughfare wasn&#8217;t closed off, so of course several blocks of Reforma are shutdown as of last night through Monday. Unaware of this excitement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German names don&#8217;t go well in Spanish</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/04/german-names-dont-go-well-in-spanish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/04/german-names-dont-go-well-in-spanish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German names in Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papa Johns pizza is expensive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pizza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tricky Spanish S and F letters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John &#38; I are rather sad to be leaving Mexico City after an amazing 2 years and 3 months. I have been trying to look on the bright side &#38; think of things that we will not miss about Mexico. It isn&#8217;t going very well, because the best thing I&#8217;ve thought of so far is:

People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The preferred moving company of Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/04/the-preferred-moving-company-of-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/04/the-preferred-moving-company-of-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fletes y mudanzas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Wednesday, the movers arrive to start packing up all of our worldly possessions. The move is all taken care of by the Embassy, which is fantastic &#38; something of which I am incredibly appreciative. HOWEVER, if the Embassy wasn&#8217;t arranging movers for us, I know exactly which company I would be hiring.
The term you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s all mime, ladies</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/03/hes-all-mime-ladies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/10/03/hes-all-mime-ladies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[really nothing overly related to Mexico besides the preponderance of mimes on street corners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, John had a great idea. We could tell by the light above his head.
You might be wondering, was his idea to buy a pug?
Well, that is a constant idea in his mind&#8230; But this time, his idea was to infiltrate a clown/mime convention happening in Coyoacan this weekend.
You can imagine his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This year&#8217;s Christmas Card photo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/28/this-years-christmas-card-photo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/28/this-years-christmas-card-photo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[despedida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[going-away party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mariachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mariachis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tacos al pastor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tizoncito]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;may be sourced from any of these pics from our despedida this past Saturday.  (Despedida = going-away party in Spanish).
Any votes on the winner??
Of course, this would imply that we are motivated enough to actually send out Christmas cards for the first time in our lives.  Hmmm&#8230;  Maybe I meant Christmas email&#8230;.  
P.S. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to the Corona Brewery (aka Cervecería Modelo)</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/23/a-visit-to-the-corona-brewery-aka-cerveceria-modelo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/23/a-visit-to-the-corona-brewery-aka-cerveceria-modelo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brewery gift shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cervecería Modelo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corona brewery tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corona gift shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modelo brewery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negro Modelo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacifico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recorrido de cervecería]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tienda de propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought to yourself, &#8220;What could I do today to support a giant, soul-crushing monopoly?&#8221;  If you happen to be in Mexico City, I have just the ticket: a visit to Cervecería Modelo, just north of Polanco!

The name Grupo Modelo may not immediately ring any bells for non-Mexico residents, but it is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questionable Ladder Usage&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/20/questionable-ladder-usage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/20/questionable-ladder-usage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ladders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what could go wrong?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, I&#8217;m not saying that this guy isn&#8217;t a highly-trained professional&#8230;
&#8230;.I&#8217;m just not saying that he is&#8230;.
Anyone in Mexico City offering review courses on ladder operation? Perhaps something like, &#8220;Slanted Ladders: Which Side is Your Friend?&#8221;
P.S. Bicentenario pics coming soon to a blog near you!! Honest!!
]]></description>
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		<title>What to eat at the Tacos &amp; Mariachi Fest in Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/07/what-to-eat-at-the-tacos-mariachi-fest-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/07/what-to-eat-at-the-tacos-mariachi-fest-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayluardo's Restaurante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Taco and Mariachi Festival]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tacos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We visited the aforementioned First [Annual??] Tacos &#38; Mariachi Festival after work today in Plaza Garibaldi, as I was curious to see what kind of festival could be organized in two weeks. I really should not be surprised to discover one does not need that much time to bring together numerous tasty taco vendors in Mexico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zihuatanejo: our last beach trip in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/06/zihuatanejo-our-last-beach-trip-in-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/09/06/zihuatanejo-our-last-beach-trip-in-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guerrero State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beaches in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Casa Cuitlateca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kau-Kan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lety's]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation in Mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sense your sympathy may be limited when I tell you that today is the last day of our LAST Mexican beach vacation, and it&#8217;s raining. We&#8217;ve truly been spoiled with all the amazing travel opportunities during our 2.25 years here in Mexico, but nonetheless we wanted to jam in one last trip to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Taco &amp; Mariachi Festival in Plaza Garibaldi!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/30/1st-taco-mariachi-festival-in-plaza-garibaldi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/30/1st-taco-mariachi-festival-in-plaza-garibaldi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1er Festival del Taco y del Mariachi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plaza Garibaldi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taco & Mariachi Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alert to any Chilangos and/or Mexico City visitors during the week of September 3-12, 2010: two of my favorite things (tacos &#38; mariachis) are being celebrated in yet another Mexican festival!!  (Lest anyone forget how successful the LAST festival was that I recommended, please feel free to revisit my Burro Festival recap.)
I am hoping this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I need a cactus chair</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/30/i-need-a-cactus-chair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/30/i-need-a-cactus-chair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prickly Pair Chair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Room Mate hotel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valentina Gonzales Wohlers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting blog today entitled &#8220;Hoy es un gran día para mostrarte lo mejor de México.&#8221; (Today is a great day to show you the best of Mexico.)  It&#8217;s kind of an assortment of travel hot spots, activities, and design highlights around Mexico. Even if you don&#8217;t speak Spanish, he has some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Driving in Mexico City Changes You</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/26/how-driving-in-mexico-city-changes-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/26/how-driving-in-mexico-city-changes-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Driving in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ Conversation snippet from inside our car, Tuesday night, 6:30PM ~

Scene: John &#38; Julie are driving from Polanco to a friend&#8217;s house in Condesa for dinner. They are sitting in traffic on Thiers, a street that often requires 2 minutes to drive down, but tonight is requiring about 25 minutes. Traffic is so thick that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Mexico City slang on your iPhone!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/25/learn-mexico-city-slang-on-your-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/25/learn-mexico-city-slang-on-your-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learning Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chilango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Effective Swearing in DF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Güey Spanish]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City slang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obscenities in Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been promising yourself that you would spend some time to learn more Spanish before visiting Mexico City, but you just haven&#8217;t gotten around to those Rosetta Stone CDs ? Have you been living in DF for a few years but still have no idea what your taxi drivers are saying while they&#8217;re talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity linked to Snickers consumption at gym</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/23/obesity-linked-to-snickers-consumption-at-gym/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/23/obesity-linked-to-snickers-consumption-at-gym/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embassy Interactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[causes of obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gym]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snickers are required at the fitness center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working out]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My fellow blogger Burro Hall has previously mentioned the ongoing battle between Mexico and the United States over which country can achieve higher obesity rates. Today I discovered another tactic at use in this war. However, it was observed at the US Embassy Fitness Center (patronized by US &#38; Mexican citizens alike), so this tactic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive dissonance: sexy, gourmet hot dogs</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/19/cognitive-dissonance-sexy-gourmet-hot-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/19/cognitive-dissonance-sexy-gourmet-hot-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican advertisements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salchichas de pavo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[things not to serve at your next dinner party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While watching television last night in Mexico City, we saw one commercial that really stood out&#8211; in a bad way. It ran twice in an hour.  The first time, we debated whether Saturday Night Live producers had somehow snuck a fake, joke commercial into Cablevisión&#8217;s Mexico programming. The second time, we felt slightly nauseous.
Decide for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sancocho: the most impressive meat stew ever</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/18/sancocho-the-most-impressive-meat-stew-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/18/sancocho-the-most-impressive-meat-stew-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biggest pot I have ever seen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dominican Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meat stew]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my MBA class friends here in Mexico City is married to a woman from the Dominican Republic. For Rodolfo&#8217;s birthday last year, his wife made an amazing Dominican creation known as Sancocho de las Siete Carnes. John and I were invited to the Gran Sancochada (as apparently one calls the event at which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elvis Memorial Mass this Monday Night!!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/13/elvis-memorial-mass-this-monday-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/13/elvis-memorial-mass-this-monday-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass in honor of Elvis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reading through the Primera Fila section of the Reforma newspaper this morning (which is basically the movie listings &#38; things-going-on-about-town insert that arrives each Friday), I came across this two page spread highlighting all-things-Elvis.
Apparently this August 16th is the 33rd anniversary of Elvis&#8217;s death, a fact that somehow escaped notice on my personal calendar. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best time of day in Mexico City: early morning</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/12/best-time-of-day-in-mexico-city-early-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/12/best-time-of-day-in-mexico-city-early-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embassy Interactions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best time of day in Mexico City]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[churros]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last three days, I&#8217;ve been test-running a new morning routine here in Mexico City. The reason for this was the expiration of our Gold&#8217;s Gym Polanco membership, which prompted us to reflect on a few questions before we extended it for our last couple months here:

They want to charge each of us $1800 pesos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casseroles heal all wounds</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/05/casseroles-heal-all-wounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/08/05/casseroles-heal-all-wounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visits back in the US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[casseroles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gifts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two weeks here in Nebraska, hanging out both at the hospital in Omaha and in my hometown of Grand Island, the time has come for me return to Mexico City. I think the Carmann family is feeling a lot better now that we&#8217;ve had some time to gather more information &#38; Mom is well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in a hospital for 7 days: not as glamorous as Grey&#8217;s Anatomy depicts</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/29/life-in-a-hospital-for-7-days-not-as-glamorous-as-greys-anatomy-depicts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/29/life-in-a-hospital-for-7-days-not-as-glamorous-as-greys-anatomy-depicts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corn thongs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I alluded to in my last post, I&#8217;ve been back from Mexico in Nebraska for the last week. Unfortunately it hasn&#8217;t just been all fun and games of monitoring crime in Omaha (though God knows it&#8217;s not for lack of news).
I&#8217;ve spent the several days at the University of Nebraska Medical Center here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now who&#8217;s more dangerous: Mexico City vs. Omaha, Nebraska</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/23/now-whos-more-dangerous-mexico-city-vs-omaha-nebraska/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/23/now-whos-more-dangerous-mexico-city-vs-omaha-nebraska/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Safety in Mexico City]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bodies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I flew from Mexico City back to Omaha, Nebraska rather unexpectedly on Thursday. One might reasonably assume that Omaha (epitome of the good ol&#8217; Midwest with a population of around 830,000+ in the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro area) would be vastly safer than Mexico City (capital of narco-landia with a population of 23,000,000+).
Imagine my surprise when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican food I&#8217;ve not yet tried&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/22/mexican-food-ive-not-yet-tried/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/22/mexican-food-ive-not-yet-tried/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arena Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bar La Estacion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cantina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.F.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen at Bar La Estacion across the street from Arena Mexico (the lucha libre venue):
You&#8217;ll see a few common Mexican snacks listed (in varying degrees of spelling accuracy) in the white lettering. But peruse on down to that 4th line of white text. Pene en su jugo. For any non-Spanish speakers, that means pene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fruit &amp; Veg Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/19/fruit-veg-wonderland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/19/fruit-veg-wonderland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheap produce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican mercados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiny about leaving Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John and I have just under 3 months left in DF before moving back to the other distrito (DC, that is). As our time south of the border wanes, one thing you can expect over the coming weeks is some posts whining w/r/t what we will miss about Mexico.
Whiny Topic #1: Mexico&#8217;s beautiful, luscious, tasty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takenoya: Chinese Steamed Soup Dumplings in Mexico City!!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/18/takenoya-chinese-steamed-soup-dumplings-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/18/takenoya-chinese-steamed-soup-dumplings-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese dumplings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese food in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gyoza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurante chino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurante japones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shumai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soup dumplings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sushi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xiaolongbao]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite parts of my recent visit to China was the food. Particularly, the magical &#8220;soup dumplings&#8221; for which Shanghai is legendary, known more properly as xiaolongbao. I went to DinTaiFung in Shanghai, as per friend Todd&#8217;s recommendation, which is known world-wide for its excellence in these steamed dumplings.
Why are these little nuggets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alert! Lucha Libre Expo next weekend in Mexico City!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/18/alert-lucha-libre-expo-next-weekend-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/18/alert-lucha-libre-expo-next-weekend-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centro Banamex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Experiencia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucha expo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucha libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha Libre La Experiencia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican wrestling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to be the first to alert all you closet lucha libre fans out there that the 2010 Lucha Libre: La Experiencia will be taking place next weekend here in Mexico City! For anyone who missed this last year, you can get a full run-down of the excitement at my blog post from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico City Airport- Terminal 1 Meeting Point</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/18/mexico-city-airport-terminal-1-meeting-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/07/18/mexico-city-airport-terminal-1-meeting-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aeopuerto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AICM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benito Juarez International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ciudad de Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international arrivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meeting point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City airport Terminal 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminal 1]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After 30 minutes spent on the innerwebs trying to find an answer to this question, I thought I would share it with any other impending Mexico City airport visitors. (Consider it a follow-up to my &#8220;Navigating the Mexico City Airport &#8221; post from last year.)
If you are trying to either go pick someone up or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elisabeth Shue launches misspelled clothing line in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/30/elisabeth-shue-launches-misspelled-clothing-line-in-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/30/elisabeth-shue-launches-misspelled-clothing-line-in-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Shue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trendy clothing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to be the first to congratulate Elisabeth Shue on the launch of her new clothing line here in Mexico City. For anyone unfamiliar with the illustrious actress, do I really have to remind you of her classic hits like Adventures in Babysitting and Cocktail??
Anyway, I was grocery shopping at Chedraui (supermarket/hub for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My husband protects me from screaming, naked girls</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/23/my-husband-protects-me-from-screaming-naked-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/23/my-husband-protects-me-from-screaming-naked-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quintana Roo State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casa de las Olas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don't call the police just take out your camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skinny-dipping morons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tulum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 5th full day of our Yucatan Peninsula vacation, and we&#8217;re currently in beautiful Tulum on the east cost of Quintana Roo, Mexico. (Isla Holbox &#38; Valladolid were great; more to come!) We&#8217;re staying in a house (Casa de las Olas) on the very south bit of Tulum&#8217;s beachfront, literally the last property [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Pimpin&#8217;: Holiday Inn Express, Cancun</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/18/big-pimpin-holiday-inn-express-cancun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/18/big-pimpin-holiday-inn-express-cancun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quintana Roo State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Inn Express]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living high on the hog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John &#38; I have been incredibly lucky to be able to do a *ton* of traveling around Mexico during our two years here. The last item to check off our list has been Yucatan &#38; Quintana Roo states, better known to most gringos as CANCUN.   Truth be told, I have never had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pork Consumption: China&#8217;s beating you, Mexico&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/12/pork-consumption-chinas-beating-you-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/12/pork-consumption-chinas-beating-you-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pigs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pork]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To further the undeserved reputation I have of being a crazy bacon/pork advocate, I thought it was time for another pig-related post. Two years of living in Mexico has opened my eyes to a whole new level of involvement between pigs &#38; your daily food intake. The sheer number of chicharrones (fried piggie skins) on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Silence!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/06/radio-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/06/06/radio-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduation!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunderbird]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s been a solid 2 weeks since I&#8217;ve managed to share any riveting, witty stories with my loyal blog readers. But I have a good excuse! Upon return from my 15 days in China, I spent a couple nites in Mexico City &#38; then was off on a plane again to Phoenix, Arizona. Off [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mao and Me</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/23/mao-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/23/mao-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 02:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communist party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forbidden City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Threadless]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What, did you think I *wasn&#8217;t* going to get a photo of me in an ironic t-shirt in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing? It seems a bit unrealistic, don&#8217;t you think?  
Thanks once again to Threadless.com &#38; the Communist Party.
Note the dour, gray, smoggy sky in photo above&#8230; Never though I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to the Great Wall!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/17/a-visit-to-the-great-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/17/a-visit-to-the-great-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Wall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jade factory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silk factory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My time in Beijing has come to end (note: 3 days ago, but the blogging is a little delayed, folks). I am (was) typing this offline while sitting in the Beijing airport, with the distinction of being the earliest passenger to arrive for my 8AM flight. I’m unclear if the guy at my hotel has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello from China!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/13/hello-from-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/13/hello-from-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduation!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traveling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite what you may think, a lot has happened since BurroFest &#8216;10. First off, I am DONE WITH MY LAST FINAL EXAM EVER!! This past Friday &#38; Saturday (May 8-9) brought about the last weekend of my 2-year, bi-weekly MBA program, with 3 long-awaited final exams. I still owe y&#8217;all a snapshot of what an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Trendy Wine Store in Polanco: Bacus</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/06/new-trendy-wine-store-in-polanco-bacus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/06/new-trendy-wine-store-in-polanco-bacus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bacus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polanco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine in Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wine tasting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A cute little wine store recently opened up about a block from our apartment in Polanco. It&#8217;s called Bacus, and this is their 3rd site so far in Mexico City (other two in Del Valle and Satelite). Knowing that having a wine source so close could cause problems for both our budget + my level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Best Festival EVER in Mexico? Ask the burros!!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/01/what-is-the-best-festival-ever-in-mexico-ask-the-burros/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/05/01/what-is-the-best-festival-ever-in-mexico-ask-the-burros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 23:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best fair ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brahma bulls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burricornio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burro fashion show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burro Festival!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burro races]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donkey festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feria Nacional del Burro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Otumba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying: Feria Nacional del Burro 2010 *exceeded* our expectations. Get ready for some heavy photo coverage, folks.   As I mentioned on Thursday, I&#8217;d gotten wind of this Burro Festival on Twitter, and after seeing how witty their website was, I had no choice but to go. Besides, having a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motorcycle Helmet FAIL</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/30/motorcycle-helmet-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/30/motorcycle-helmet-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failblog.org]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helmet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motorcycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety first!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I feel someone needs to have a chat with the man on this motorcycle regarding &#8220;how helmets work.&#8221;
True, the fact that he even has one with him puts him above many motorcycle drivers here in Mexico City&#8230; but now if he would just read the user&#8217;s manual&#8230;
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		<title>No Weekend Plans? How about the BURRO FESTIVAL??!?</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/29/no-weekend-plans-how-about-the-burro-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/29/no-weekend-plans-how-about-the-burro-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burro Fair!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burro Festival!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estado de Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feria de Burros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Otumba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarcasm in Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to keep up with the young hipsters of today, I created a Twitter account several months back &#38; vaguely monitor my fellow &#8220;Twitteros&#8221; (as they are called here in Mexico). While parsing through Twitter&#8217;s mountain of 140-character data bursts is truly a &#8220;diamond in the rough&#8221; kind of situation, every now and then I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moments when I question my choice of Mexico City spa service providers</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/28/moments-when-i-question-my-choice-of-mexico-city-spa-service-providers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/28/moments-when-i-question-my-choice-of-mexico-city-spa-service-providers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laser hair removal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lasers- good or bad for your naked eyes?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what could go wrong?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It hit me last month that our time in Mexico is quickly coming to a close, causing me to spring into action on a topic that I&#8217;d been mulling over for the last year and a half: laser hair removal. (It&#8217;s ok, boys, you can stop reading now &#38; I won&#8217;t be offended.)
With an eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Cup Stickers: the latest trend where I&#8217;m out of the loop</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/24/world-cup-stickers-the-latest-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/24/world-cup-stickers-the-latest-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[albums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[futbol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sticker trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a frenzy of activity in my MBA class this morning (my LAST MBA CLASS WEEKEND ever, FYI! All that remains is final exams + a week in Phoenix. Praise be.).  You might assume the activity is focused on final exam prep, but you&#8217;d be wrong. Instead, there has been a burst of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit to Boston: 1st day highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/15/visit-to-boston-1st-day-highlights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/15/visit-to-boston-1st-day-highlights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Taste of Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visits back in the US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airplane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Demon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ImprovBoston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucha libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luchadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nacho Libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nordstrom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I scheduled a trip many moons ago to finally get back to Boston  (where I lived from 2002-2006) to visit friends &#38; hang around for Patriots&#8217; Day, better known as the day of the Boston Marathon! I flew out of Mexico City on Wednesday at 9AM &#38; got in last nite. Here are a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now included on Mexicana flights: free Scandinavian escort!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/10/now-included-on-mexicana-flights-free-scandinavian-escort/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/04/10/now-included-on-mexicana-flights-free-scandinavian-escort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life's Little Frustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I hate you Aeromexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexicana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexy advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My recent blogging delinquency has stemmed from our recent vacation to Baja California Sur over Semana Santa (Holy Week) here in Mexico. As you can look forward to hearing about in painful detail in a subsequent blog post, we had a VERY BAD experience with AeroMexico trying to get from Mexico City to La Paz.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tecali de Herrera- Mexico&#8217;s hub of all things onyx</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/29/tecali-de-herrera-mexicos-hub-of-all-things-onyx/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/29/tecali-de-herrera-mexicos-hub-of-all-things-onyx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puebla State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ex-convent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onyx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puebla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puebla state]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took a day trip on Saturday to Tecali de Herrera, which I understand to be the hub of onyx (and marble) production in Mexico (or at least one of them). Tecali de Herrera is located about 47 km southeast of Puebla in Puebla state, and it took us a little over 2 hours to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The true dangers of Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/23/the-true-dangers-of-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/23/the-true-dangers-of-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chameleon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dangers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all heard the rumors&#8211; &#8220;it&#8217;s too scary to go to Mexico City; there are dangers lurking around every corner; blah, blah, blah.&#8221; Well, I suppose it&#8217;s time we confess the truth. We had a narrow escape this past weekend here in Mexico City.
John totally almost got eaten by an oversized chameleon.
Luckily John managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Differentiating yourself via Mexican-themed packaging</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/17/differentiating-yourself-via-mexican-themed-packaging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/17/differentiating-yourself-via-mexican-themed-packaging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby shower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best packaging ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucha 4 life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican-themed gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obsess much?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guess which present at the baby shower was from me?
It&#8217;s not the prettiest, people, but it did get a laugh. As I wrote to Tricia on the card, what says &#8220;new baby boy in Mexico&#8221; more than a box decorated like a lucha mask? Alternatively one might say, &#8220;When has one carried a novelty interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electrical Engineering at its finest&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/17/electrical-engineering-at-its-finest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/17/electrical-engineering-at-its-finest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electrical engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what could go wrong?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=2086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As seen at Ciudadela in Mexico City this past weekend. We spent a good 5 minutes trying to guess the functionality of this thing before friend Greg gained the courage to inquire directly.
It was at a jewelry booth, so I was voting for some kind of ionizing jewelry cleaner (no idea what that even means). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxi Chats about mickeyteesone</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/11/taxi-chats-about-mickeyteesone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/11/taxi-chats-about-mickeyteesone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chatting in Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxistas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Imagine below conversation in Spanish)
Me: We&#8217;re going to this address, which is located just off street x which is near street y. Perhaps we can take street z? Also, I have a map if you want to see it?  [I offer, trying to avoid replica of prior experience of driving around indefinitely &#38; asking people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Pozas: a Jungly Wonderland in Xilitla, Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/08/las-pozas-a-jungly-wonderland-in-xilitla-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/08/las-pozas-a-jungly-wonderland-in-xilitla-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Luis Potosi State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casa Vieja Cafe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concrete magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concrete snakes with rebar tongues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Castillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hostal del Cafe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human maze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jungly bits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Pozas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurante Ambar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xilitla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since we arrived in Mexico, I&#8217;ve heard rumblings about Las Pozas. General commentary included things like &#8220;crazy place in the jungle&#8221;, &#8220;this English guy Edward James&#8217;s surrealistic garden&#8221;, &#8220;wild concrete structures&#8221;, and perhaps the most intimidating, &#8220;8 hours away on windy mountain roads&#8221;.
With most weekends booked up between MBA class &#38; visitors, it took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Earth Day vendors in Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/05/call-for-earth-day-vendors-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/05/call-for-earth-day-vendors-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embassy Interactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embajada de los Estados Unidos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green vendors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vendedores verdes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to take advantage of the ol&#8217; blog today to send out a request on behalf of the US Embassy in Mexico City.
The US Embassy is celebrating Earth Day by holding a green bazaar on April 22 in the Embassy compound.  They are looking for vendors (food, jewelry, clothing, anything!) who are green or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Weather Barometer</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/03/mexican-weather-barometer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/03/03/mexican-weather-barometer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Querétaro State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican weather barometer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebraskan farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As seen in the courtyard of the Museo del Queso y Vino (Museum of Cheese and Wine) in Tequisquiapan:
I have got to find myself one of these. In case it&#8217;s not very clear from the pic, the &#8220;measurement&#8221; part of this barometer is the cow&#8217;s tail, which is a piece of rope. The translation:

If the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The latest trends in Lucha Libre souvenirs</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/25/the-latest-trends-in-lucha-libre-souvenirs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/25/the-latest-trends-in-lucha-libre-souvenirs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arena Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Demon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Matador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lucha libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luchadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mascaras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican wrestling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTZWear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned before, John &#38; I are lucky to have the &#8220;inside track&#8221; on all-things-lucha here in Mexico due to a) a friend who has been training to be a luchador + b) another friend who is a lucha superfan. So while some of you may be familiar with lucha libre souvenirs for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two different approaches to Mexican tourism: Queretaro vs. Hidalgo</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/25/two-different-approaches-to-mexican-tourism-queretaro-vs-hidalgo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/25/two-different-approaches-to-mexican-tourism-queretaro-vs-hidalgo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hidalgo State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Querétaro State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airbrushing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I love good maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[models with body paint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruta de Vino y Queso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tequisquiapan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine & cheese route]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I constantly rave about Queretaro State&#8217;s Secretaria de Turismo (tourism board). They really have their stuff together, with amazing maps, good websites, great brochures, all of which serve to seduce people to a Mexican state that (to be honest) I initially thought didn&#8217;t really have that much going for it. (I have since reconsidered this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasty Capsu</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/22/tasty-capsu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/22/tasty-capsu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capsu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catsup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes one comes across something in Spanish that makes me feel better about my language abilities, because it reminds me that on occasion, Mexicans have trouble with Spanish too. And maybe also trouble with colors.
Reference the below photo snapped by one of my eagle-eyed MBA classmates this weekend, as seen on the table of food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Las Pozas preview&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/16/a-las-pozas-preview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/16/a-las-pozas-preview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Luis Potosi State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huasteca region]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Pozas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xilitla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If these images don&#8217;t at least pique your interest regarding a trip to Las Pozas in middle-of-nowhere, Mexico (a.k.a. Xilitla in southern San Luis Potosi state), then I don&#8217;t know what will.    More details to follow of our amazing weekend trip, a mere 7 hours north of Mexico City!!

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		<title>Sluggy McSluggerson recounts some Mexico Highlights!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/11/sluggy-mcsluggerson-recounts-some-mexico-highlights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/11/sluggy-mcsluggerson-recounts-some-mexico-highlights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeological Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guanajuato State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guerrero State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourist Spots in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alebrijes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahias de Huatulco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casa del Sol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dia de la Independencia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Grito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Huequito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guanajuato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel Casa del Agua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huatulco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ixtapa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Capellina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican Independence Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pyramids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pyramids in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Miguel de Allende]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teotihuacan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Restaurant in San Miguel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torre Latino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I&#8217;ve been a slug. Every now and then, I like to do a blog post outlining all the riveting topics I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about, promise you that I will actually write about them, and then never execute on this.  Which sucks, because we have been some really amazing places in Mexico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flores de Calabaza (aka Squash Blossoms)</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/09/flores-de-calabaza-aka-squash-blossoms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/02/09/flores-de-calabaza-aka-squash-blossoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese-stuffed squash blossoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flor de calabaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flores de calabaza rellenas de queso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polanco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[squash blossoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Villa Maria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On almost every trip to the mercados or grocery stores here in Mexico, I find myself admiring the flores de calabaza, a.k.a. squash blossoms. Not being a fan of actual squash, I consider these guys by far the best thing to emerge from the squash family:
I never got around to actually buying them due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Jirafas y la Mula in Santa Maria la Ribera</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/27/las-jirafas-y-la-mula-in-santa-maria-la-ribera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/27/las-jirafas-y-la-mula-in-santa-maria-la-ribera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cerveza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crazy long quesadillas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Jirafas y la Mula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Maria la Ribera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yards of beer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/?p=1751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in December, John, friend Susan &#38; I went on a long overdue visit to one of Mexico City&#8217;s up-and-coming neighborhoods, Santa Maria la Ribera. (Read as: no Starbucks yet) For additional colonia commentary, check out SMlR resident Jesus Chairez&#8217;s blog, or Lesley&#8217;s post re. her visit.  There are several cute little spots, like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cat Whistle satisfies all gift-giving needs</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/26/cat-whistle-satisfies-all-gift-giving-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/26/cat-whistle-satisfies-all-gift-giving-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best gift ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cat Whistle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico souvenirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky the Raccoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day presents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a dude I&#8217;ve encountered at a couple markets in Mexico City who walks around holding a big, black plastic garbage bag. You can hear him coming from a couple aisles away, because it sounds like he is accompanied by a very angry cat. The first time you come upon him, you are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ok, so maybe I won&#8217;t park my car here</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/18/ok-so-maybe-i-wont-park-my-car-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/18/ok-so-maybe-i-wont-park-my-car-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parking lot; possibility of your car being burned]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As seen in a parking lot in Patzcuaro, Mexico:
Fair enough on the robbery front; that&#8217;s par for the course in most parking lots. But the fire part? Uh, has that happened here before? Or happened often? I guess what I&#8217;m asking is: what are the odds of my car being burned down if I park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: free water at restaurant in Polanco!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/14/newsflash-free-water-at-restaurant-in-polanco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/14/newsflash-free-water-at-restaurant-in-polanco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brassi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free water in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polanco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polanco restaurants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waterhorse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Living in the fancy-pants neighborhood of Polanco in Mexico City, we see loads of overpriced, trendy restaurants where the food tends to be sub-par. There are a few diamonds in the rough, but it is rare you can escape lunch (much less dinner) with a bill of &#60;$200 pesos at any of the see-and-be-seen joints. These are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spanish Wingman</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/10/the-spanish-wingman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/10/the-spanish-wingman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learning Spanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chatting up girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chatting up girls in a different language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dating in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language barriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the unique things experienced by visitors to Mexico City, I&#8217;ve found that our US-based guests are most surprised that English is not spoken more prevalently here. I think there&#8217;s a general assumption among Americans that everyone in Mexico is dying to move to the USA and hence is furiously learning English. Point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mexican winter of 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/08/the-mexican-winter-of-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/08/the-mexican-winter-of-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Driving in D.F.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circles of hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overreaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends &#38; family up north (like my parents currently experiencing -29F/-34C windchills in Grand Island, Nebraska) are sure to appreciate the latest weather developments from Mexico City. I was slightly amused tonight (Thursday) reading tense articles on www.reforma.com about the impending weather doom expected to hit the city ASAP.
Apparently Mexico City is expecting RECORD BREAKING [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best tacos come from the back of a van</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/05/the-best-tacos-come-from-the-back-of-a-van/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/05/the-best-tacos-come-from-the-back-of-a-van/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tacos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[van]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The two friends visiting us this week are your classic &#8220;work hard, play hard&#8221; types. Since there is no work for them to do here, the focus has been largely on playing. In Mexico, &#8220;playing&#8221; loosely translates &#8220;tequila, cerveza, and more tequila&#8221;.
As you can see, this team was well prepared to handle its tequila:
After a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of Yelapa&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/01/a-taste-of-yelapa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2010/01/01/a-taste-of-yelapa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jalisco State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yelapa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the delinquency in beach photo uploads!! We have a couple friends visiting this week, so we have been busy with a flurry of taco-eating, pyramid-visiting, tequila-drinking, lucha-watching, bullfight-attending, etc. For an added bonus, one of the visitors (college friend James) is taller than us, which has provided an exciting chance for me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>¡Feliz Navidad!</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2009/12/23/%c2%a1feliz-navidad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2009/12/23/%c2%a1feliz-navidad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jalisco State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BEACH HOLIDAYS!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Vallarta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yelapa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well kids, we decided to forego the trip home to the Midwest this Christmas. This is now seeming quite fortuitous, given the crazy snowstorms that have been popping up all over the States this week &#38; last. Nebraska is apparently scheduled to get heavy snow for the next 3 days, which you can view live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tasty Christmas-y appetizer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2009/12/20/a-tasty-christmas-y-appetizer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2009/12/20/a-tasty-christmas-y-appetizer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Taste of Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best appetizer ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas-colored appetizer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pizza Dip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yay for dairy products!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First off, a caveat: this is not a remotely Mexican recipe. :) But it does fit the bill for blog-inclusion by being Midwestern. And more importantly, it is a gooooood recipe, probably because it is endowed with the hallmarks of Midwestern cooking: dairy, dairy, and more dairy, with the occasional smattering of vegetables well-disguised by cheese.
The illustrious Pizza Dip has gained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical guilty pleasures</title>
		<link>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2009/12/18/musical-guilty-pleasures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midwesternerinmexico.com/2009/12/18/musical-guilty-pleasures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Mexico City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogsherpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crap music videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fanny Lu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I know you want me]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pitbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much like in the US, if you go out to enough bars/clubs/restaurant or listen to enough radio in Mexico City, you will hear the same popular songs 8 million times. Some you will come to loathe &#38; each encounter will feel like a thousand music notes stabbing your eardrum. Perhaps one or two will be a [...]]]></description>
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