Biscuits and Gravy

So we made it to Mexico... Woohoo! In all the journey from heathrow to Ensenada took the best part of a day-the flight was great (though 11 hours long) but BA were good, and Zeke didn't freak out. Ama met us at LAX and drove us down San Diegowhere we were met by some of the YWAM dudes and driven about 90 minutes over the border to Ensenada.

California was a lot less glamorous than I thought it would be, and a lot more spread out. They do good burgers though.. and root beer! There are tons of palm trees and eucalyptus trees as you drive down the coast road which made it feel a little more tropical.

We arrived in Ensenada at about 10.30pm Mexico time (about 6.30am UK time) and were greeted at the base by lots enthusiastic, lovely and not-as-tired-as us people. Needless to say, we were knackered. I had gone into a slightly over hyped talking mode and Ruth was very quiet! All three of us are not quite un-jetlaggedyet. We all woke at about 3.30 on the first morning and giggled a lot!

Ensenada is a nice little town, maybe about 200,000 - 300,000 people. It's a fishing and tourist port, with a long sandy beach which is lovely. We are about 100 metres from the sea, which is an amazing view from our window (will put up some snaps soon.) The port is to our right, and regularly enormous ships pass by looking like they should be grounding on the sand.

Things we have learnt so far:

1.) Don't put toilet roll down the toilet, thats what the bin next to the toilet is for!
2.) How to use a plunger!

Cool things we have eaten so far:
1.) Breakfast - biscuits and gravy! Not like uk biscuits and gravy though as that would be wierd. It was like a sweet scone with thick bacon-porridge
2.) Pina con Chili - Dried pinapple covered in chili

Wildlife spotted so far:
1.) Pelican
2.) Wierd dead fish (maybe a ray) on the beach
3.) lots of sparrows
4.) 1 lizard
5.) Plover type wading birds

Anyway we'll put some more photos and info up soon, and maybe a video if your lucky!

Much love
Tim, Ruth and Zeke