{"id":11690,"date":"2012-02-17T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2012-02-23T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T02:17:57","slug":"las-americas-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/17\/las-americas-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Americas – Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went back to the Las AmericasPremium Outlets<\/a> in San Ysidro (just a stone’s throw over the border fence from Tijuana) with Sylvia to pick up some items at the Disney Store that we put on hold a couple of days earlier. This time we got to talk to our friend Sandra, who is the store’s manager. While there, I took a couple of shots of princess artwork that were on t-shirts. For some reason I just really liked the artwork. Very sketchy looking. We walked around the mall\u00a0for a while and noticed something we’d never seen before. We’re pretty sure that most people never notice it. It was a statue of St. Isidro, the patron saint of the city of San Ysidro, displayed on the upper level above the Information Center entrance. Also came a across a pretty cool sculptured relief of a bullfighter on one of the mall walls. These two things alone should tell you how close we were to Mexico. Also got some more shots of colorful kiddy rides outside some to the stores. After we finished the walking and the shopping we drove through a McDonald’s located at the outlet mall to share an order of wonderful-smelling french fries. It’s become a tradition. On the drive back home we noticed a giant blow-up Ronald McDonald sitting cross-legged on top of another McDonald’s waving to us drivers on the freeway. Their french fries didn’t seem quite as appetizing.<\/p>\n

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Went back to the Las AmericasPremium Outlets in San Ysidro (just a stone’s throw over the border fence from Tijuana) with Sylvia to pick up some items at the Disney Store that we put on hold a couple of days earlier. This time we got to talk to our friend Sandra, who is the store’s … <\/p>\n

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