During our previous trips we never took the time to exchange our USD for pesos since the exchange rate was running 10 pesos to 1 USD. We always found it easy to convert prices back and forth simply by moving the decimal placement. Well, in getting ready for this trip, it has become evident that exchanging usd for pesos is a much better deal. The exchange rate is about 15 pesos to 1 USD when I checked today. I decided to purchase pesos a couple of weeks ago after reading that the Mexican Govt. was going to be buying up currency to lower the exchange rate(increase the value of the peso) but it looks like that hasn't happened. Still got a decent deal at just under 14 pesos to 1 USD. This will make our trip
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