Mexico Trip

For spring break we took the girls down to Rocky Point Mexico. It's about three hours away and we had been given a nice condo to stay in away from most of the spring breakers so we thought, "why not? It's been 11 years since we were down there lets go!" (so yes, we have been out of town which equals no blogging!)

I can honestly say that it took a great deal of convincing to get me to agree to this. Last time I went down there it wasn't a pleasant experience and I had NO intentions of EVER going back! First off we stayed in a camper (clue #1) with no A/C in the middle of the summer (clue #2) with FLIES (BIG clue #3). The company was very strange (clue #4) and lets be honest - I was used to beaches like this:

(Carmel Ca)

pretty green trees, white sand, flowers and the sound of waves crashing on the beach. (clue #5)

Instead all I saw was this:

(Sea of Cortes) Sand. Water. (clue #6)

I think all the above factors came into play when I made my decision to never return. I know, I know I should be be happy - a beach is a beach! Well my views have changed. This weekend was pleasantly.....pleasant. We stayed in nice condo with a full kitchen and brought our own food (no flies here baby!) We had a beach with sand but also huge sea shells and tons of hermit crabs which Cassidy had a ball finding the perfect ones for her collection in a sand bucket. We also could go back and forth between beach and pool (NICE!) which was again very pleasant.

I think fear had a lot to do with the 1st trip and partly for the second. Fear happens when you are going into the unknown and unsure of what will happen. (Yes this is my own definition and is not going to be found in Wikipedia). Tom speaks fluent Spanish but still, a foreign country? A tad scary if you ask me.

Everything was fine and the girls loved learning some Spanish and seeing the stop signs with ALTO instead of STOP. It was very humbling to see all the different living conditions from super fancy multi storied homes to little cardboard lean too's along the side of the road. I think it also opened the eyes of my children and hopefully they will be a little more grateful for what they have instead of always wanting more (like their Mama).

I think the highlight of the trip (besides the perfect weather, sitting on the beach until it was time to go to the pool then back to the beach) was going to these amazing tide pools. The kids got to see and hold starfish, a small octopus, sea sponge, huge crabs, and other weird sea life! I wish we could have gone there every day! That alone will get me to come back.

Fun in the sun!

Lee, Aimee, Mindy, Lori, Me, Monica, Traci, Michelle, Angie

O.K. no one guessed. I suppose I should have given clues. That wasn't very fair of me. However, shame on you - those that read this blog and didn't comment. I know you have been reading because my counter is going up everyday. Where's the comments? Where's the love??? JK

I had a fabulous trip with the girls from book club. We went on a 4 day cruise to Ensenada Mexico. I did relax, I did eat food that I didn't prepare(a lot of food!), I danced the night away every night, I did read-however there were still interruptions(I didn't mind) and I had a blast. I think I laughed the whole entire time. A smile never left my face. My favorite was when we would tell people(when they asked)that we were with our book club and we had 35 kids between the 9 of us. Their faces were priceless! Loved it!!!

One of my favorite things we did was look at every single person on that ship as we tried to decide what character he/she (mostly he) would be in our book. (Twilight) "Is that Edward?" "Could that be Jasper?" "The werewolf is following us again!" "How about her for Esme, Rosalie, Alice and Bella?" (we didn't find any of them but we did find a few Edwards, and one Jasper). Seriously, we checked out every guy there and it was perfectly legal because we were doing it for our "casting session!" We were obsessed! If you haven't read that book, go get it right now. Barnes and Nobel is open till 11pm. Go....go.....I'll be here when you get back! I don't think the cruise would have been as fun if we hadn't involved that book so much. Well........o.k. it would have but still that book was the highlight.

So I think the cruise was such a hit we will be doing it next year. Tom and the girls came to the airport to pick me up and Tom asked us if we were glad to be back and did we miss our families..............I think he got a few half hearted yah's and kind of's. Poor guy. It was very nice to not have to worry about anyone but yourself. However, it was an eye opener because we had to do a lot of thinking on this trip. Usually our husbands do the thinking, the tipping, the planning, the protecting. We didn't have that and it made us realize how grateful we are for our men who take such good care of us.

I'm going to need help remembering some of our favorite quotes that were said on the trip. So if you can post those favorite comments - the ones we laughed so hard over - please do so.

Here's some of my favorite pictures. These are not edited sorry!

Here we are the night of the midnight buffet and dancing out on the pool deck. It was SOOOO cold we had to grab towels and use them as blankets.

Monica and I doing a self portrait at the airport.

Getting ready for the boat sinking drill. Don't we look pretty?

Below is our guardian angel Ignacio (our tour guide who took us under his wing)

That story is being saved for it's very own post!

However, this is also a picture of the yummiest mexican food ever!

Having fun dancing. I think that will be my new form of exercise.

Here we are dancing the night away. I Loved dancing with Aimee!

I was picking up a few new moves! Sorry Aimee - don't kill me!