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So, I finally got to go to México.
A girl in my Engineering class called me randomly 2 weeks ago asking if I wanted to go to México, so I said yes.
We left Friday afternoon, and got back Monday night.
We stopped at In-N-Out Burger in Vegas on the way.
I'd heard so much about In-N-Out, and never been before. It ended up being pretty good, but I suppose I'd hyped it up a little too much beforehand.
We got to In-N-Out at around 11pm, ate, and continued driving to Barstow, Cali. We got there at around 1:30AM. The stupid Motel 6 had given away our reservations (what incompetence), saying "sorry, you're out of luck"
To which Emily replied,
"Oh, you need luck even when you've made reservations, and even called to confirm 6 hours before!!!"
It was really ridiculous.
Fortunately for us, we were "lucky" and found another motel around the corner.
We woke up the next day, and continued the drive to to Tijuana.
We were in 2 cars, and we agreed to drive to right before the Mexican border, park, and walk across.
I was in the first car. We got on the highway, and started driving south. We saw a big sign saying "Last USA exit" but for some reason, the driver decided that instead of taking the exit, he'd get his camera out and take a picture. We drove straight over the border.
We called the other car and told them we'd gone too far. They told us to come back (after all, we didn't want to park out car in Tijuana!). It took us a little over an hour to get back. Unfortunately for us, one of the guys in our car was Mexican, and didn't have all his paperwork in order.
They treated us like terrorists, and made a bunch of phone calls to check if the Mexican really had a student Visa.
We finally got through, parked, and walked back across the border.
The fiesta could now finally begin.
TJ started out with our driver buying a bunch of penecillin at the nearest Pharmacy. It's cheap, and there's no need for a prescription!
We then bought food. I was able to get 4 tacos and a drink for $5.
I was surprised by the price. I know it's México, but it's a tourist place, and I was expecting things to be a little more expensive.
The food was really good and authentic. I hadn't had Mexican food like that since the mission. It was a good reminder. Much better than the supposed "Mexican" restaurants here in Utah.
We stuck around until about 8PM, and left.
We then decided to head to the beach (in Cali)
We ended up getting there at around 10PM.
Emily (the planner of the trip) had decided she wanted to have a bonfire on the beach.
We bought some firewood, and brought Garner's useless excuse for a Calculus book to burn with it.
We ate some food (mostly marshmallows) and played a few games.
By about 2AM, Robbie pulled out his CD player, and speakers, and started dancing Salsa.
I'm not much of a dancer, but a Bolivian girl convinced me, and taught me Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and a few others.
She ended up laughing at me when I messed up, so I picked her up and threw her in the ocean.
It ended up being quite fun.
Afterwards, when running along the shore, the freshman of the group decided to kick sea water in my face.
Not one to let anyone get the better of me, I picked her up in a fireman's lift and started walking straight towards the sea. I walked up to where a I was about knee deep and waited for a wave to come. Right when it came, I squatted and waited..... :)
We ended up getting to bed at around 4AM.
The next morning we visited a catholic mission (Basilica), and then went to church.
Afterwards, we ate Mexican food again, and started our way back. We stopped in Vegas again at In-N-Out (this time I got the vanilla shake instead of strawberry, and it was much better) and continued on to St. George.
We got to St. George at around 2AM, and ended up getting to bed a little after 4AM. (Meanwhile Emily taught us lots of the kinds of games that are only funny when it's that late.....)
We then finished the rest of the way the next morning.
I got back still needing to code up a CS lab that was due on Tuesday, so I didn't get to bed till really late.
Despite the lack of sleep, it was a really fun experience.
Despite there not being any more 3-day weekends, we might have to plan another trip on an "unofficial" 3-day weekend....

Click the photo below to see a bunch of pics of the trip!

México!

If you've ever seen any of the MAC vs PC ads you'll know that Apple is not subtle when it criticises Windows.
The two basic points of the ad:
Windows crashes a lot. Windows gets viruses.
Anyone who knows anything about computers can easily see the flaws in this argument.
Apple controls the hardware, so it's easier to have drivers work correctly (the main reason of crashes). The reason there are so many more viruses for Windows than for OS X (The name of the Apple Operating System) is because 95% of the computer market is Windows.
A virus writer wants to make as much damage as possible, so it would make sense to write a virus that can infect as many computers as possible. The more market share Apple gets, the more problems they'll have.
Ironically, Apple's strongest selling point is the fact that they sell less.
You're safest if you're running an uncommon OS.
I'm not defending Windows (they suck in a lot of areas), but a lot of the areas that Apple is attacking are not entirely Micro$oft's fault.
Yet another reason why I use neither Windows nor Mac.

This is why I now use GNU/Linux.