Mexico was....fun.

Hola! Okay, here is a little slideshow I created of our trip to Mexico. It was alot of fun, with some crazy happenings to go along with it. (see below)

We have been planning this trip for four years and 7 months. We haven't taken a vacation for that long, and we were REALLY looking forward to it. Alot. The plan is that we are staying at my friend's dad's house in Cabo San Lucas. And we are bringing BOTH grandma's, which equals a ton of extra help.
So departure day rolls around, so Jason, me, the two bambinos and the madre-in-law all load up, and roll out to the airport at 3am. We get on the plane, everything is smooth sailing. I can almost taste the margarita on my lips.

Day One, Tuesday:
We land in Cabo, and it's hot and wonderful. We clear customs, no problemo. We go to get a taxi to the house, and sure enough, we get suckered into a presentation for a time-share. But they give us lots of free stuff, so we think...what's an hour of our time? For free stuff. We get to the house, and it's amazing. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a pool....so amazing. And we go swimming. Later that night, Jason and I drive back out to the airport in the car provided with the house to pick up my mom. It's still going great. Then we get home, and what greets us at the door? Big cockroaches. Live ones. And they scramble in every direction when they see us. So, while my mom and Jason kill the cockroaches, I scream and jump around like the insect wussy I am.

Day Two, Wednesday:
We get up, and Jason, his mom, and I go to the timeshare presentation. It's this amazing resort, and the facilities are incredible. Do we walk away? No, we purchased a timeshare. 30 years worth. But hey, I mean that's great right? It's a fixed vacation every year!! And in Cabo, too!
That night, Jason and I decide to go out and see the nightlife. It was fun, we danced.....in a cage (for those of you that know Jason, that's a pretty big deal!)....and later, while at Burger King, this kid starts talking to Jason and pretty soon, Jason is introducing me to my high school boyfriend's little brother, who is no longer the 8 year old I remember. He's an 18 year old man now. What are the odds, right? Only in Cabo.....We go home to more cockroaches and more screaming by me.

Day Three, Thursday:
Jason and I swam with Dolphins. This was something I have been looking forward to doing for the last 8 years. And it was amazing. They are so beautiful, powerful and suprisingly, they smell like fish. At one point Monet (our dolphin), rolled over on his back so we could pet his belly. He really seemed to be enjoying it! Then the instructor asked me to refrain from touching his genitals. Whoops!
We left that afternoon to go to the day spa. Us three ladies (me + 2 Grandma's) all had an hour with heaven, in the form of a swedish massage. I was so excited. We get to the spa only to find out we have to reschedule due to a city wide power outage. Nice. No fun for the senoritas.
More cockroaches at night, and I'm sure you are all familiar with how I handled it.

Day Four, Friday
I must preface this day by stating that Cabo is in a major water shortage right now. So, we were using water from the underground reserve tank. The owner's of the house explained that we needed to be extrememly limited when using that water. Keep that in mind.
We leave around 3 pm for our rescheduled spa appt. This time, they get us in. It's great. Except the burning hot towels they keep pressing and grinding on my horrific sunburns. All in all, it was wonderful.

THEN, Jason comes to pick us up only to inform us that the car that comes with the house?....Yeah, it overheated and is useless. Okay, so we go out to dinner and let it cool off.
We get the car back to the house, and I go to rinse off my baby girl's cup out and, what's this? No water coming out of the facet? We start investigating around the house and find that the pool guy came and he turned on the hose and drained our entire tank of running water into the pool. INTO THE POOL!!!! WHICH WAS ALREADY FULL!!! (He left and forgot to turn off the hose.)
Many more cockroaches....(You'd think I'm getting used to them at this point. Well, I'm not. I've had like 4 nightmares about them since I've been back.)

Day Five, Saturday
Jason goes into town and gets us a rental car. Cool.Our mode of transportation is taken care of. No water still. We are showering with the (out of town and unaware) neighbor's hose on the side of the house, and making trips from the pool to the toilet tanks, so we can flush. We have to heat up the neighbor's water on the stove to wash dishes and our hands. I'm just laughing at this point. I'm a water thief!

Day Six, Sunday
Still no water. But plenty of cockroaches.

Day Seven, Monday
The water gets fixed!!! Things are looking up! The sun is shining, not a could in the sky. And it's HOT, per usual. We start swimming, it's a great time.
Then, what's that I feel? A rain drop? Within minutes (no exaggeration), we are being dumped on with wind and rain. It's a tropical storm, a residual of Hurricane Emelia. There is thunder, lighting, wind, and so much rain. It's coming in under every door. We have towels pushed up against the doors and it's getting soaked in the house!! That continues all day, off and on. It's so loud, I'm afraid the windows are going to break from the sheer force of the wind. Oh, yes and still Plenty 'O' Cockroaches.

Day Eight, Tuesday
Time to go home! I can't wait to go home. I just wanna sleep in my own bed. With no cockroaches crawling at my feet. The wind and rain are still in full force. We get to the airport at 12:30pm, for a flight that was supposed to leave at 3:30pm. We watch planes come and go for over 8 hours. Mind you, we are with two small children, no water and all the food places closed down because the power is flickering. Did I mention I had two small children there? And it was hot and muggy with SWARMS of flies?
Finally, at 8:30, they tell us our flight can't land (in order to pick us up) so we have to spend another night in Mexico, with no help from America West. Because this delay is "weather related." Oh, and we can't make phone calls from there either. And all the taxi's have long gone home. So, we all get back in to the check in line, to check-OUT our luggage.

Five minutes later, they tell us: "Whoops! Just kidding, the plane will land, everyone back through security again!!" So, we get on the plane in record time, and take off. The entire plane is clapping and cheering! Then we start to get to close to Phoenix, (we were supposed to have a connecting flight from Phoenix to Seattle, but had long since missed it) and ask me what's going on in Phoenix last night. OH, no big deal.....Just a MONSOON. And not just any....They haven't seen one like that in YEARS!! I was watching lightening from the airplane window that was so close I could have touched it. Over and over again. It was like fireworks. The turbulence was like nothing I've ever been in. Somehow, they make it to the ground, and it's pouring and booming and the entire Phoenix Airport is leaking worse than the one in Cabo. We clear customs, get our info for which hotel we are staying (napping) at. We get there, get the kids a bath (they both smelled disgusting) and got into bed at 1 am.

Day Nine, Wednesday
Then we got up at 3 am. Pack up, get to the airport and fly out of Phoenix and landed in Seattle. I'm so thrilled to be home, and in America. I swear, I haven't felt this patriotic since 9/11. I'm not kidding. Did I mention we purchased a 30 year timeshare there?

And here's one more little fun fact for you. I was unpacking, and guess what I brought home. You guessed it! A cockroach. And it was still alive. I think I need post traumatic stress therapy.