8:30 am, MexArt students and staff boarded a bus with tour guide, Angelica, and headed to Guanajuato.  Guanajuato is the state capital.  First stop, el museo de las momias, the mummy museum.  The Guanajuato mummies are famous all over Mexico. The mummies are naturally preserved because of the minerals in the soil and water in the area.  Families who could not afford to buy a plot could rent one for their dead relatives.  If families failed to pay the yearly rental fees, the corpses were taken out of their graves to be thrown away or burned.  In this process, they discovered some bodies perfectly preserved.  The museum contained the first mummies ever found, one woman buried alive (her family thought she was dead after having an epileptic seizure), the smallest mummy in the world (a fetus, and it's mother), and many others.  Next students rode the bus to the panoramic overlook for a an over view and general history of the city.  Walking down the small streets, students could see what a labyrinth of a city Guanajuato is.  Exploring town MexArt saw the town's opera house, the university, various squares and gardens, lover's lane, the granary, an art museum, and many of the sights.  In the afternoon, the bus took the group to the mines where they explored downward and learned about the history of mining and the different methods used.  Each mine had a hacienda and elaborate church, which the group also explored.  Most students slept periodically during the trip home.... exhausted from a long day of sight-seeing.