what my phone saw- mexico edition

looking through my phone today i have all kinds of photos from mexico that my phone took. 

she loved mexico! she was a little scared in puerto vallarta when she thought her owners husband was gonna get his nike's stolen (off his feet, by a local) but otha' than that she saw some fun stuff!!

it was actually a mexican cruise??? (shrug) i wont tell the aloha lei police....

 

tiniest baby crab ever. found this in a dish i bought. poor thing must have crawled across the street from the ocean into this store and got stuck in this bowl. he was the size of a pomegranite seed.

so they make towel animals on your bed when you leave your cruise cabin at night. this was creepy...like it was waiting...i made shane disassemble it right away!

coz who wants to eat sad food? oh, and the sign below seems to be trying to convince us that yes indeed, it IS happy food. im suspicious!

i'm big in mexico. i knew it would spread.....hugs!!!

who puts a disco ball on their balcony? someone funky that's who! i wish i knew them.

this is mollyes beach bag. the girl knows the essentials. afro wig. check. itch cream. check. schedule of cruise events. check. she is a walking par-tay!

i can only share these 7 photos from the phone.

she tends to take inappropriate photos. we had to have a talk about it.

mehico photo album 2012

as promised-or threatened-depending on how you are looking at it.....

so as you look through these try to imagine a mariachi band playing music in the background-although the cruise ship continually played caribbean music??? yeah, me neither....



long beach-getting ready to set sail



i checked her out-she was fine, just resting

 

streets of cabo san lucas





every country has them

bartering for my daughters hammock chair

got it



mariachi and margaritas-what else ya want??

i think i like cabo

the men are so friendly

i know what you're thinking-what lucky ladies get those 2 hotties???

big daddy and his girl

sweetest little. we bought $3 flowers from her. best $ spent.

you would tell us if we had food in our teef-right?

because why wouldn't we drink from disco balls?

see? all kinds of groovy!

oh, i didn't tell you i was a master snorkler? for a hot 28 seconds i owned that sea. p.s. if anyone that tells you the sea of cortez is warm in june-walk away fast- they are a liar and who knows what other fairy tales they are trying to sell you.

beautiful church in puerto vallarta



my lovely lady friend mollye



mojitos make you think you can sing

bow down to washington. go dawgs!

mojitos make you think you can dance



mojitos make you think you are all kinds of sexy



mojitos make you think you are super funny-funnier than everyone else.

they started at the top, spinning until they were on the beach

ya gotta have at least 1 of these shots in every album right?


so there ya have it.
good times.
good friends.
what else can ya ask for?
oh, maybe another week to do it all over again might do!

reality

waking up this morning was super fun.

really.

you know how it is when you have your first day back to work after vacay. its fun. super.

as i peeled open my eyelids this morning my first thought was, "i gotta get up to the lido deck and tag our lounge chairs before breakfast".

my second thought was, "why is my cat on the cruise ship with me?" 

yes, it was a hard slap in the face back to reality.

so i got up and swayed my way to the kitchen-funny thing how you keep swaying while you walk even a day after you are off the ship.

my son has found this to be pretty funny.

 I brewed up a huge (not an understatement) pot of organic mexican coffee i bought from a sweet lady in puerto vallarta that her husband had grown and roasted himself. ignoring the pile of dishes in the sink and the fact that my luggage is sitting there, unpacked, stuffed to the gills even though i am hoping if i ignore it long enough it will just ya know, unpack itself.

i drop into my chair with a thud.

i use the word 'thud' because i am pretty sure i gained a bit of weight between my breakfast, mid morning snack, the trip to the ice cream cone machine, the 1st round of mojitos, the 2nd round of mojitos, my 1st lunch, a trip back to the ice cream cone machine, my 2nd lunch, another round of mojitos, a trip to the sweets bar, a round of miami vices in my disco ball cup, a trip to the frozen yogurt machine (because i should really do froyo and cut back on the ice cream at this point right?) then another round of mojitos, a glass of water (you know, to detox in between my gluttony) then dinner, followed up with desert that i say i will only have a bite of but strangely i clean the plate, one more trip to the ice cream machine (WHY do they make this self serve? at least they should put a hot guy server behind that machine so maybe i wouldn't visit it 14 times a day!!) and a last round or two of whatever drink i am handed.

yes, i am guessing maybe i gained a pound-or 8.

 so back to my amazing cup of mexican java and me laughing in my head thinking of all the funny moments and good times on the cruise ship and in mexico. 

in walks my youngest little breaking my vacation chi by asking for more medicine (oh, by the way, i came home to a sick kid-yay me!) but.... she is cute. so it makes me smile.

 i missed my littles and its always nice to come home but dang i had me a blast and get this- nobody called me mom. not once. it was simply bliss!

somewhere on day 3 or 4 i wondered why my stomach hurt. no, not like sea sick hurt or gross cruise food sitting like a lump in your stomach hurt because you managed to eat like a huge pig. it was more of a "i have now laughed so hard that i am using muscles in my stomach that i didnt know i had hurt." or maybe the muscles were there but had somehow been covered in the layers of self serve ice cream???

anyway,  my favorite photo of the trip is this one right here:

thats two girls havin' a damn good time right there!

i have so many more fun photos i would love to share. i know how it is to look at someone elses photo footage from a vacation that you weren't on. its never quite as cool.

it's a big fat book of "look what i diiiiid that youuuuuu diiiiiidnt." but you still wanna see right? 

im pretty sure i heard you say yes and thats great because i will now go and put together a photo book just for you as that is what someone does when

they are trying to ignore the fact that they came home to 

421 new emails and they really dont fit in their jeans.

oh, guess what?? aol just told me i have mail. make that 422.

no joke. 

ahhh...its gonna be a fun day of you wishing you were me.....