Yesterday we realized we were out of just about everything, so we hightailed it up to the green Super Soriana. Soriana is a chain of grocery stores in Mexico and the green super is our favorite. So far as we can tell, they’ve got green ones, red ones, mini ones, regular ones, and the supers. The red ones are kind of like the mutant offspring of a three-way between Wal-Mart, Staples, and a grocery store. There are grocery stores every few blocks in Ensenada. Each neighborhood or zone has at least one regular supermarket, in addition to a tortillería (tortilla factory), a panadería (bakery), a carnicería (butcher), a frutería (fruit market), and a pastelería (pastry shop). Most of the pescaderías (fish markets) are down by the harbor. The Sorianas are convenient, because you can get pretty much everything you want in one spot. And the prices are usually good, but not on everything. For example if we go the the carnicería two blocks up the street, we can get New York steaks at $99 (pesos)/kilo. The Soriana sells ground beef for that price. +1 to the carnicería.
Like most of our Mexican adventures, this one started out with us walking for tacos. I love being able to walk everywhere–you get to see a lot more of the cool stuff around you that you’d miss in a car.
Like this baby lizard. He was so fast!
Or the deliciously creepy parking structure for the uncompleted aquarium near the marina.
There are offices above the parking structure.
By the time I stopped to take a picture of the nautilus, Steve and Eli had decided they needed to get me one of those monkey backpack harness things you see on toddlers.
While I was taking this picture of a recycling truck for cooking oil parked outside of 7-11, they were all, "We're gonna have to take that camera away if we don't get some tacos soon."
Steve threatening to embarrass Eli, because that's the Number 1 fun game to play with your teenage children.
Aaaaand now he's done it. Eli's off-camera, praying that the sidewalk swallows him up. Or his dad.
Stained glass window
The Art School is on the corner, across from the 7-11. Yes, 7-11 is south of the border.
Sealife tiles, set into the sidewalk near the Art School.
The first thing you see as you walk in the door.
Avocados
I love the little yellow ones best.
Ropes of chorizo hanging behind the meat counter.
Different varieties of tinned squid.
I've never eaten land snails, but I really like ones from the sea.
Tiny eels. Next time I'm going to try them.
Ensenada is a big seafood town.
Boil these like tea to make the purple Jamaica drink that is sweet and tangy, but not as tangy as tamarindo.
The boxes are bilingual a lot of the time.
Huge orange papaya sliced open so you can see the black, caviar-like seeds.
Basket of Mexican summer squash hanging in our boat.
The good stuff.
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