After what seemed like endless waiting, it is over! Card from Mexico

Hello, everyone!

If I link you to my blog, it is because we swapped or I just want to share my card collection :D

Anyway, with those people I arranged a swap with while in Mexico, I am happy to announce that after 3 1/2 weeks of waiting, the card I sent myself has finally arrived! I also killed two birds with one stone because I didn't have a postcard from Mexico (used to have a pen pal long ago) AND Chichen Itza is now off in my collection of the 7 world wonders.

I met up with someone I got into contact with in the big postcrossing group, Wendy. We met up in Mexico City and she also showed me around her neighborhood in Xochimilco. She was very kind and also led me on a mini tour around the Postal Palace (the postmark is pictured below), and I was able to get cheap postcards as well as another cool postcard (I will write about my Mexican adventures in another upcoming post). It would've taken me forever to find the places she took me to, so I am grateful I had a tour guide! Thanks again, Marilu!

Taj Mahal, India

Continuing my collection of the the 7 wonders of the world, I was able to get a big sized card of the Taj Mahal. It is a mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Its name is persian and arabic meaning "crown of palaces."

7 wonders of the world: the great wall of China

I have two goals while swapping cards: one is to get any mosque cards or religious temples (funny given my views), and the other is to collect the 7 wonders of the world. So far I have about 3-4 (I will have to send myself Chichen Itza while i'm in Mexico!)  Hopefully I get to meet or talk to someone in my missing countries and countries that have the wonders! I got this card from a swap a few years ago. I believe this person was collecting cards for his girlfriend for her birthday. He was kind enough to send me one of the great wall. Thanks again!

Patience is a learned virtue through snail mail...postcard from Brazil

Today I finally got a postcard I've been waiting from Brazil for a long time. There was a postal worker strike about a month ago, so it affected the mail system in Brazil for a while. The postcard is even postmarked March 14th, 2014! I am just glad it eventually got to me. Now I am waiting another card from the same person. Thanks, Silvia!

Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He overlooks the city and Sugarloaf mountain is to the left.