The Jungle Blog

San Diego was sweet....Tijuana, umm not so sweet. Yesterday we spent the morning and early afternoon at the zoo. There was soo much to see and it was all amazing. There were about a dozen giant tortises each over 80 years old and weighting over 700 pounds. The Orangutangs were funny, they tried hiding themselves under broken palm leaves. It was kinda like a 2 year old covering there eyes in hopes that you can't see them becuase they can't see you. It was awesome. And then we saw a giant 350 pound Silverback Gorilla backhand the glass where a guy was taking pictures of it, as if to say "get the hell outta here while i'm still in a good mood"

After the zoo we walked all the way to downtown, had a great dinner, walked through an open-air mall (they get no rain here so everything is open-air, even the schools), and then went to a wicked Reggae concert that we managed to get free tickets too from a Hostelling International guy. Pictures and a small video will be posted some time soon. It was a perfect weekend to start the trip...and were under budget!!!

So now were in Tijuana...grrrrr. We've been here for about 2 hours now and I would have been happy leaving after 10 minutes. Tess did manage to bargain her way down half price for a shirt. That was fairly exciting. The street pedlers that bombard you every 15 seconds to buy cheap jewelery, $1.00 beers or something called a "Scooby-doo". (I definitely didn't wanna find out what that was) has lost its luster. It's interesting when McDonalds is the only establishment you trust...haha. Anyways, we are now heading to catch a bus to Ensenada. A much more lovely Mexican town I hear.

Until next time,

Jay

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Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/tessarex/ for more of the photos that we've taken and will be taking.