Around the World in Two Weeks - Last Day Mexico City

The last five days have been quite crazy. I haven't had time to write anything because I've been extremely busy at Labofilms. Initially, we were supposed to attend an open house event for their new subsidiary, Labodigital. Work on the location we nowhere near finished so we ended up helping Charles from Serbromex (the company in charge setting up Labodigital) pull cables through walls, connecting systems together and training some of the staff there.

I can safely say that Labodigital will have the best shop in Mexico. It's a brand new floor on the already existing building of Labofilms. It includes:

• A state-of-the-art machine room with an Imagica ImagerXE film scanner, our very own MATRIX, a Lasergraphics P3 film recorder and a Sony HDW-M2000 high definition VTR.
• A client suite complete with a retractable projection screen, a high-resolution projector and an HD client monitor.

Enough of technical stuff. Yesterday, after all the work was done, the manager of Labofilms invited us to a private screening of the new Miami Vice movie. Labofilms has a nice little screening room for about 25 people. The only downside was that the film reels were not spliced together so the movie was stopped every 20 minutes for them to change. Also, instead of the "traditional" soda and popcorn, we were offered Don Julio tequila on ice...

After the projection, we headed (actually, raced) to an area considered the Beverly Hills of Mexico City - Polanco. We went to "the best Argentinian steak resaurant in Mexico City". Let me tell you, I believe it. The steaks were absolutly amazing. One, especially, was so tender, it was like cutting into butter - seriously! You could just slide the knife over it and it would cut. After a very good meal, some beers and tequilas. Headed back to the hotel. The others went to the manager's home but I was too tired to follow (I woke up a 8 that morning and they woke up at 1pm...).