Ensenada

Tony, Alicia, Henry, Scott, and I decided to drive down to Ensenada for 4th of July weekend. The best things about Ensenada were the dozens of fish taco stands at the fish market selling tacos for $1 and the free wine tasting at Santo Tomas winery. The main shopping street in Ensenada was cute, but sold mostly really touristy stuff. We also spent a day in Rosarito and went horse back riding on the beach. Rosarito seemed like a fun city to spend a couple of days, they had a lot of bars right on the beach and some cheap taco stands.



Jesus on the way to Ensenada



At the blow hole outside of Ensenada. It was a long drive and pretty crowded when we finally made it there. We also stopped at one of the beaches around Ensenada, which wasn't very impressive either.





We stopped in Puerto Nuevo for lobster, you get 1 1/2 perfectly grilled lobsters and all of the rice, beans, and tortillas you can eat.



Everyone after eating a lot of lobster.

Morelia, Patzcuaro, Monarch Sancuary

Scott and I went to Morelia, Mexico to visit our friend Michael who is doing research on indoor air pollution from cooking in some of the villages nearby. Its actually really interesting. Many of the people in these villages are still using open fire for cooking. They are trying to implement a new fire buring stove with a flue so these people dont breath in so much smoke and Michael is testing the effects of these new stoves.

This is the Catherdral in Morelia. Its suppose to be the most beautiful in all of Mexico.

Downtown Moreila

Hiking to see the Monarch's at the Sierra Chincua Santuary

Lots of butterflies

Angangueo, one of the town on the way back from the butterfly sanctuary.

Here's everyone. We were lucky to be able to stay with Michael's friends Cynthia and Alfredo. They were wonderful hosts.

Patzcuaro is a city close to Moreila. It is famous for the hand crafts that they make in the region including wood, copper, straw, silver, among others.

Island close to Patzcuaro. We climbed up to the top, into that giant statue.

Juice in a bag. Jummy Jummy!

While Michael was doing research in Comachuen he came across Dona Nacha's. She runs a small restaraunt in here kitchen. We were lucky to be able to visit Comachuen and eat lunch at Dona Nachas.