Mexico!

We are back! I would never think we could have so much fun in only 5 days, but did we ever, and it was made even more fun because we met up with family (Brent and Char, Jan and Kenny, and of course Dad and Pat).
I was starting to worry we wouldn't make it on vacation after Jackson got sick and we weren't able to board him, I caught a nasty cold, and Ted obliterated his toe nail thanks to the corner of a wood bench he dropped on it. Somehow everything worked out thanks to help from neighbors and Ted's toe not becoming infected and a speedy recovery for me.

Even with a few clouds the weather was beautiful and warm. Our hotel was awesome with us landing the best suite in the house on the ground floor with the beach right outside the sliding doors. The kids had a blast playing on the beach, (where you could walk forever), swimming in the pool, pigging out on strawberry slushies, and, of course, some fishing off the beach (no luck there). From our beach you could see whales, porpoises, fish, and manta rays all leaping out of the water, very, very cool! The water wasn't safe for swimming in our area but that didn't make the beach any less fun, in fact I think all the waves made it even more fun.

On Tuesday of our trip the girls and I went on an awesome fishing trip with Gramps. In the picture are all the Durados we caught which we brought one back to the hotel and they cooked us a fantastic fish diner for our group. How cool was that for the girls to catch diner? We also caught a needle fish and Gramps will tell you all about the 'huge' fish he caught that are not in the photo (I have already embarrassed Gramps enough so I won't go into too much detail).

On the Wednesday we took a horrible bus ride into Los Cabos. It was insanely crowded to the point if you weren't claustrophobic you still started to feel like it (Hera had to stand the whole time with her poor face at but level) and it was long. Once off we enjoyed the downtown doing a little shopping (Isi's now favorite toy is the cute little guitar above), we got severely harassed to buy junk, and we swam with the dolphins (picture above with us in our wet suits). Very beautiful city, but even so we were happy to pay a taxi back to the hotel and take it easy for the evening.

Thursday we celebrated my Dad and Jan's birthday a little early so we could participate before leaving Friday afternoon. We had cake, too much to drink, live music (very interesting), and tons of laughs.

I have tons of great photos to share so keep an eye on facebook or join up if you aren't already cause there will be some stuff you don't want to miss!

Big Hugs and Kisses from all of us,

The Sfikas Family