Oaxaca and Huatulco

The past week was mostly vacation. We had Wednesday to Friday off, as well as the weekend. Three of the teachers had been planning a vacation to the Oaxaca coast since before I arrived, and I was glad to go with them. I've been excited for a while now to swim in the Pacific for the first time and just relax on a beach, and I wasn't disappointed.
We left Wednesday morning at about seven, and so we mostly just slept through the three hour busride to Oaxaca. We checked into a hotel and explored a little, admiring the Spanish architecture from the outside, since most of the building required signing up for a tour which are only offered on certain days. If you are going to Oaxaca to see the buildings, I guess you just have to stay a long time or do a lot of research. We visited the zocalo as well, which is very much the same as every other zocalo.
In the end we spent most of our time in Oaxaca at the market, which is interesting to explore and inexpensive, and trying different restaurants, which were also not very spendy for how good and how much the food was. It was better to go a little distance from the zocalo to find fairly priced restaurants, but you don't have to go far. It isn't very hard to find restaurants that offer the traditional Oaxacan foods, including chocolate and grasshoppers.
The next day we took our eight hour busride on winding roads through some beautiful, mountainous country to Huatulco. Most of the ride had amazing views of the country, but there is a risk of motion sickness. I'm usually not affected by it, but even I felt it a little on this ride.