Mexico

So it has been a week since we arrived in Seattle.  I thought I should write a little bit about our experience in Mexico before I forget it all. 
We left Spokane January 16th around 3.  Arrived at the Hotel about the same time as Perri.  We waited 1/2 hour to check in.  We got settled in and slept.  our wake up call was 4 am ish.  There was frost on the Windows of our cars, but we didn't have to drive very far to store our vehicles for a week.  We only ended up paying $5 a day.  (Good deal!) We made it to our flight no problems.  Flew into LA and waited a long time.  Perri, Jimmy and the kids walked around and got breakfast.  Played on their "electrical devices."  were bored out of their minds.  We finally were able to board the plane for Mexico.  Everyone was getting really excited.  The plane ride was pretty uneventful, thank goodness.  Arriving in Mexico we had to go through customs which took a while.  We Finally made it to Mexico. 
A little preface- I had talked to Maury (my boss) and he said that we could ride a taxi for $40, so I started looking for a cheaper taxi.  Come to find out they had unionized at the airport and it cost $70 for the taxi ride to our Hotel. 
After arriving at the hotel, come to find out, I made the reservation for the next day.  so we spent over an hour waiting for them to find us 2 rooms.  I think they were looking together.  Whatever!  The kids were going bananas.  We got ocean views the first night.  It was fun.  Perri was on the ground floor we were up on the 2nd floor. We didn't care we were so tired from being up @ 4 that we just wanted food and bed.   It was so time consuming and we didn't bring $1 bills to tip and we had no change, and, and, and.....It made it for a stressful situation.  We could have all the "drinks" we wanted, unfortunately we don't drink.  But the Virgin drinks were really good and the kids LOVED them.  By the second day they were at the bar ordering their own drinks.  They had a certain color band on their arms so the bartenders knew not to serve them alcohol.  It worked pretty good, we would have them order our drinks so we knew they wouldn't be  spiked.  Because Jimmy ordered one and he said it tasted weird, so I had to taste it and, yeah, it was the good kind.  Funny that he couldn't tell. 
We spent the days by the pool or down in the sand by the Sea of Cortez.  "The boys" Jimmy, Hunter and Kirby loved playing in the waves.  Jimmy hurt his knee one day a big wave took him down and his right foot caught around his knee and he twisted it a little.  The kids loved the ocean and the sand.  I loved it when we took the kids to the "Day care center" they were able to swim, do crafts, ride down a water slide, watch tv, color.  They made some fun crafts, bracelets, angry birds, baskets.  Jimmy Perri and I went into town on Sunday.  We should have taken a Taxi, I was exhausted by the time we were done.  It was spendy, until the last shop we stopped and and I bought a mexican backpack and colorful school bag for $25.  The first store tried to sell me one for that price.  Eating buffet all week, it all seemed like the same kind of food by the time the week was over.  The snack bar had hot dogs and hamburgers and then mixed up the other food.  Fish, chicken, chips, salsa. 
It was a mom's dream not to have to cook and clean up after for a week. 
They had entertainment every night, I was so exhausted by then I just wanted to relax.  We were able to go to one of the "members" shows and it was fun they had Indian dancers w/fire sticks.. hard to explain.
Monday Perri wanted to go and swim with the boys in the ocean. 
To be continued....