It MUST Be a Holiday! (Mexico)

Today was great.  First really good free breakfast from a hostel!  People at this hostel are very much early-risers...apparently so are the residents of Oaxaca, because at 6:30am (I am not kidding) fireworks started going off.  It sounded like a bomb!  Three times before 7:30!  There was a group of high schoolers here as well, so needless to say, when all that got started, sleep was not happening.  Clint, however, seems to have super-human sleeping skills, and was in fact able to go back to sleep.
When he woke up we all took a walk downtown and stubbled upon what we thought was some kind of teachers alliance march, which wo its way around the streets (we alternatively attempted to avoid those streets).  Until in ended in the Zocalo...along with every single other person that lives even remotely close to the city.  The amount of people crowding the streets was unreal!


 We found refuge inside of a market with, basically anything you could ever need, especially an extensive meat and seafood market.  We grabbed super cheap and yummy lunch (breakfast for Clint) and walked around a bit.  Dessert was chapulines...seasoned grasshoppers, which really just taste like spicy raisins....which you wouldn´t guess from my face...haha.

After, we returned to the hostel to gather some belongings and headed out to Monte Alban, the ruins from the Zapoteca people.  Lots of walking around again, but interesting stuff, and some great picts. 
Just getting back from dinner now, and I think we have officially become super savy travelers.  We went out looking for a specific resto Jared found on Tripadvisor.  Ended up being replaced by a now more expensive place, so as usual we had to walk around looking for something, completely starving.  We finally stumbled upon THE WORLD´S BEST DEAL!!!!  We got 6 tacos each, which were delicious, for...30 pesos, which is $2.40!!!  Bahh!  It was delish! Then we came back to hostel and grabbed a couple beers, which we thought were 20 pesos, and ended up being 15 pesos each, which is $1.20!  Anyway, needless to say, we are pretty stoked about our bargain meals!