Doughnuts Are Good

The docket today included a trip to the Great Pyramid of Cholula.  Never heard of it?  Me either before today.  There is a reason for that.  We had scouted out a bus and schedule yesterday, but arrived at the station a bit early.  That left time for a healthy bread and doughnut breakfast for everyone.  Yum.  While eating we saw all manner of Eurotrash walking by our delicious doughnut party, presumably getting in line to Cholula ahead of us.  After we finished eating, we walked to the bus area to see a long line of tourists on one side, and a little bus boarding on the other with 'Cholula' written on the windshield.  I climbed aboard the little bus, paid for the five of us, and settled in a seat for the short ride to the Great Pyramid.  There immediately was an uproar of confusion because apparently we didn't board the prescribed tourist bus. I guess there is a 'special' bus to Cholula, and we were gumming up the works taking the 'regular' bus there.  We left the station moments later, leaving our Eurotrash buddies still standing in line.  The ride was uneventful, with several stops to move passengers on and off the bus.  We arrived in Cholula on the regular bus just fine, and walked the few blocks to the archaeological site.  The pyramid looks like a hill with a church on top.  I kid you not.  The Spanish actually built a Roman Catholic Church on top of an Indian temple.  The pyramid is almost entirely covered by dirt and grass, although one can see the angles of the pyramid in the general shape of the 'hill'.  We walked to the top of the 'hill' to take a look at the Roman Catholic Church there. This offered great views of the city and countryside, as well as a huge snow capped mountain in the distance. At the bottom of the pyramid we discovered an entrance to tunnels under the actual pyramid.  We decided to explore the inside of the ruin and then some outlying excavations.  The tunnels ran all the way underneath the ruin, with some interesting turns and twists along the way.  There were also caged off areas going up and down which were forbidden to enter but very intriguing.  The tunnel finally emerged on the opposite side of the pyramid, where more ruins were located.  These were not as exciting, so we moved along through them toward lunch.  The ride back was just about as interesting as the ride there.  Just regular.