Adios Mexico! Ola Brazil!

hello hello hello,

Well its my last day in Mexico after 5 crazy weeks. The last 2 weeks being especially crazy and awesome.

Grady and I did some of the sights in Mexico city. Its really great and there are some lovely suburbs. The food here is awesome too. We went to a really fancy restaurant called Izote on our last night together run by a famous Mexican chef, Patricia Quintana. It was a modern Mexican fusion restaurant and it was amazing. 3 courses and 5 cocktails each cost about $200... I am going to miss the Mexican cheapness.

I left Grady on the 20th for Puerto Escondido. I might have cried a little. Still missing my girl. She went to Peru and had to be evacuated from Machu Pitchu by the US army but she is thankfully ok.

I stayed in Puerto Escondido for 8 AMAZING nights. The hostel was great, pool, outdoor couches and rad people. It was run by a guy called Steve who was in one word... crazy. We spent every day relaxing, going to the beach and partying pretty much. There were 3 other Australians there so of course Australia day was fantastic. Originally we were going to have it on the 26th, like normal people but Steve decided to say to EVERYONE on the 24th "its Australia day tomorrow" and didnt listen to us when we said it wasn't. So we had Australia day on the 25th, but we figured it was Australia day in Australia at that time so it was ok. We did the traditional bbq and had heaps of food, bread and salads and sat around drinking beer all arvo and well into the night with everyone from the hostel. There were people England, Quebec, Germany, Mexico, Argentina etc etc. That morning some people went fishing and JP caught a massive tuna and cooked that up too. It was great.

Every day the two most used words were 'tabarnack' (some kind of French Canadian swear word) and 'tomorrow' as we all got really really lazy and when we decided we needed to do something we would always say we'd do it tomorrow. A couple of days the only reason I left the hostel at all was either for food or more beer.

It was really hard to leave, but thankfully my new favourite Argentinian, Martin, was flying out of Mexico City the same day as me so I didnt have to do the depressing 18 hour bus ride by myself. Everyone stayed around for the full moon party at Zipolite on the Saturday night.

Off to Sao Paulo tonight. I have to be in Rio on Feb 10 for Carnival so will probably go up north to the amazon for a couple of days. Then hopefully meeting up with Bianca and Jason from puerto in Rio. Then its down to meet Ash in Buenos Aries and hang out with Martin again.

Hope all is good in Aus or where ever you are.

xxoo Mary