Heading out for a mini-vacay!!!!

(guess where I'm going?)

Summer Vacation

I hope you enjoy this brief pictorial of my summer vacation in San Diego and Tijuana (& considering the actual number of photos I took this is brief)



Comic Con San Diego

Anything goes at Con..... I guess

While I was on my way to work at Comic Con this funeral precession greeted me... It seems it was a 'publicity stunt' for Chris Angel. After watching it for a minute or two I headed into the con and was behind a guy who commented to his friend: 'Chris Angel was a nerd' due to that procession. I thought it was funny that a ComicCon attendee was thinking that Chris Angel was a nerd.... ComicCon is full of nerds of all ages & sizes~ what makes one nerd better than another?



This is the reason I'll never ever stay at the Hard Rock Hotel - just couldn't stand the constant noise.

Noise in the lobby, in the hallways and on the patio, etc... (Supposedly this was Daughtry, or someone....)


Comic Con Exhibitor floor - from above and below....

TRT Dinner on Sunday.... when it was all over

This picture speaks for itself

Hanging out at the Dead Dog

Trip to Mexico

Davina blending in with the locals.....

Our Hotel ~ They had a lovely spa with the Agua Caliente Waters

We went to the 'famous' Sombrero Restaurant for our midday meal

We had a really nice lunch

It was this guys birthday and after singing they brought out this tiny pinata for him to hit with the little stick

Revolution Avenue ~ Car Show, Mariachi's & Margarita's

Mariachi Guy on Break

Revolution Avenue

We were quite entertained by this Mariachi band while we waited for our two for one Margartia special

Two for One special....... two for me and two for Davina.

Our server wouldn't get out of the way for these pictures

Another Mariachi Band came round to serenade us

Street entertainment

Trip to the Circus - Mexico Style

Under the big tent like any other circus

We went to the early show at 6pm, so it wasn't very busy

The bleachers we were seated on were basically jimmied together

This was the oldest, but happiest, elephant I've ever seen

This is one half of the Mentalist Act - they were like the Sigfried and Roy of Mind Reading

There was a parade of random animals

As one of the circus 'acts' they brought out this Monster Truck that carried all the little nino's and nina's once around the ring ?????!

There was an unexpected 'intermission' while they prepared the cannon (see below) and it was absolute chaos with everyone walking around and doing who knows what.....

They shot an actual man from a cannon

This was the other half of the Mentalist Act. He came out into the stands to 'read palms' and for a small $ donation he gave us a sealed envelope that had something or another to do with us / our life. It's all in Spanish so I have NO idea what it says. LOL

Davina noticed that the Tiger wasn't in a cage.... at all. & other than the yellow rope he was pretty much free to come and go as he liked. Luckily he seemed to be VERY content so he just did his show without any problems.

The Mentalist stopped us on our way out ~ I think if he didn't have another circus show to do he'd have come out with us

Mariachi Show at the Camino Real Hotel

After the circus we headed to the Camino Real Hotel in hopes of finding some kind of entertainment in the Cantina and to have a drink and snack.

Duck tacos with a tamarind sauce - really good!

Davina's chicken tortilla soup

These Mariachi guys were lots of fun!

Tour of Tijuana

Our tour guide.... (Judy kept flirting with him ;) )

Famous Tijuana Zonkey

The tour bus took us to all these stops

This police / military convoy was as close as we got to the 'drug wars' in Mexico

The Caliente casino and dog race was pretty nice inside and out

Notice the flamingo's in the Caliente "pond"

During the mexicoach tour we were taken to the boarder to see how busy it was

When we left we took a bus which took us directly to the boarder crossing and we walked back home (into the USA that is...)