This summer we flew to the city of Oaxaca for a week to celebrate my parents’ 50th Anniversary. Incredible milestone! It was also my first time there.

Here’s photos making chocolate, rugs, and their famous black clay, painting alebrijes.

In a mezcalería doing some tasting, and in the beautiful springs of Hierve el Agua.

The Zapotec city of Monte Albán.

Some of the beautiful sights and most importantly insane food. I love mole and this is their thing. I ate so much mole. It was so good.

Something I wanted to see since I was a kid: El árbol del Tule, an ancient and massive cypress tree claimed to have the widest trunk of its species. It’s massive and beautiful and not in the middle of a forest like I always pictured.

And this is the beautiful color-coordinated family, missing just my favorite nephew who we named official photographer for the trip thus does not appear in any of the pictures.