oh, it's been a month, and now i'm finally back at home in melbourne. got back this morning, and really should be sleeping as i haven't had much in the past two days, but thought i'd put in a quick update as the site has been stagnant the whole time i've been away (obviously). we left guadalajara about 9am (melbourne time) yesterday, waited at the dreaded lax for three hours (i watched the spurs take game three 
), before leaving on a painful and tiresome 15 hour flight to melbourne, arriving this morning just after 8am. gonna have about 1400 pictures to sort through, and expect to post between 100 and 200 pictures to a mexico 2008 gallery (i'll try not to upload stuff just cos i have it). i'll be using a different format to the past, where all pictures will be in the one gallery, and the end user should use the tags to drill down into categories further. the new scheme will require some code changes, so i'll hopefully have that all done by the time i start posting the pictures. i'll be posting all the news items first, which again, i've decided to do a little differently than in the past. i'll not be doing a daily diary type of post, rather region by region posts (in more of a dot point form), and add some reviews at the end.
needless to say, the trip was a lot of fun, a great experience, and despite some negatives (nothing major), a great month away. the biggest flaw of the trip i found, was that we overestimated our spanish skills, and underestimated the english skills of the mexicans. of course, this did help us improve our spanish, but the trip would've been a lot more enjoyable if we spoke better spanish. i'll leave it at that for now, and will probably start posting news tomorrow or the next day.
picture taken from the balcony of our dorm at the guadalajara hostel, about an hour before we left for the airport yesterday.
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