Downtown Tijuana

It's Danica here! Today we got up and had a lazy morning after everyone tried to catch up on sleep. Chelsea and Hannah made breakfast for the group which was a really good way to start a day of sight-seeing and shopping. At about 11 we headed downtown to the Tijuana Cultural Center. There were four different exhibits in the center and it also had really cool pieces of art that were about one story high and hanging from the ceiling in the entrance way. The first exhibit showed the history of Baja California from the dinosaurs and indigenous peoples, first casinos, to the state's role in WW2. The second exhibit were photographs that show immigration and the border. It was interesting to see immigration from a different perspective. A lot of the photographs were eye-openers on what is actually going on on this side of the border. My favorite part of the center was the botanical garden where they even had turtles swimming in the pond in the center! After the cultural center we got lunch at a restaurant in the center of Tijuana and were able to walk the street and shop. Overall, it was a good afternoon in downtown Tijuana and we only got lost a couple of times! (Ok maybe more than a couple...)