{"id":4439,"date":"2011-10-18T20:49:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2011-10-22T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T16:45:04","slug":"i-wasnt-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/i-wasnt-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"I wasn&#8217;t in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Juarez.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4440\" title=\"Juarez\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Juarez-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Juarez-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Juarez.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Look what I saw at Venice Beach yesterday! A car from Juarez, Mexico! I have never seen any Mexican license plate in all my years in California but this one is from Juarez. Isn&#8217;t that the most dangerous city in the hemisphere? The murder capital of the world? That&#8217;s where all the drug dealers are. But what would this vehicle be doing at Venice Beach? All I saw there were street performers, sunglass kiosks, T-shirt shops, and bunch of medical marijuana shops. Hmmm, it&#8217;s a conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>My sister came to town for the weekend with her two daughters and one granddaughter for some fun. We went to Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and shopped and ate ourselves into a near coma: a monster buffet, gourmet burgers, Benihana, Cheesecake Factory, Chicken Pot Pie at the Daily Grill, Pinkberry for dessert. Well&#8230; you can imagine. 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