Mexican car wash

Today is the first full day in Mexico for this trip. Although we saw many things, the thing that stands out the most is the Mexican car wash.

And not for any particular reason other than the expanse of time it takes to get your car washed.

We had been out running a few errands and Josh decided we should get the car washed before we headed out to lunch. So we stopped in the car wash at about 12:30, no big deal you think. 

We pull up to the booth, and Josh gets the "Ultra" car wash that the picture shows a ton of things happening to your car, and a list of items we can not read... Learning Spanish is on the list of things to do this week... Rosetta Stone here we come...

After paying, we pull up to the automatic car wash where waiting in line two men start hand washing our car and push in our mirrors. Then we pull forward onto the track that pushes your car along. We go through a rather nice automatic car wash. After the automatic car wash we had to drive over to one of 10 lanes where teams of two men dried the outside, vaccumed and shined the inside of the car... But we had to wait in line... but you do not wait inline in your car, you get out of your car, take everything with you and put your keys on the windshield and go wait in a waiting area.

The waiting area has newspapers, magazines, a kids play ground and vending machines. 50 minutes later, the line supervisor looks over our car, has them touch a few more things up and we get our keys back... 50 MINUTES... 

Plan accordingly.