We just got back from a ten day trip to Mexico. Everyone freaks out when I tell them we went to Mexico over spring break because of all of the violence that has been happening on the border. We stay in Darren's Dad's beach house which is in a little village called, Puenta Bufeo in the middle of no where and we didn't ever feel like we weren't safe. In fact every night we slept with all the doors wide open to cool off the house.
Right before we left Sancho, the horse, decided to play linebacker and knocked me down hard from behind when he was trying to get through a gate that was closing to be with his buddies. I had a few bruises on my left hip and my whole left side was sore. So the nineteen hours in the car was brutal going down. Dar kept loading me up with muscle relaxers which helped make the trip go by really fast!
The weather was perfect! It was in the 80's everyday and 60's at night. The boys had a blast riding their motorcycles on the beach and around the sand dunes near the house. One day we got the wave runners out and toured all of the islands in the bay. One of our favorite things we did was go to an island full of sea lions and snorkel with them. Then we went to another little island with a hidden bay we named, "Bikini Bottom," so Ken could go snorkeling.
We had our annual Easter egg hunt on the beach. Some birds tried to steal a couple of the eggs and took the contents. I wonder if they can digest skittles and jelly beans? Darren had brought some bubble wands, which were a huge hit. It was pretty windy that morning so everyone stood up on the upper deck and let the wind do the blowing. It was really fun to watch!
One of the boys favorite things to do while we are at the beach house is to go to a nearby village and eat fresh fish and shrimp tacos at a place called Alfonsina's. I'm not a fish eater so I stick to the refried beans and quesadillas. They serve a wonderful white sauce with all of their food so I asked our waiter how they make it. He told me it is made with a little mayonnaise, milk, consomme (I'm assuming he meant chicken broth, he didn't speak a lot of English and I don't speak a lot of Spanish)and some finely chopped green stuff called, "perejil." When I got home I asked my Spanish speaking friend what that was and she said parsley.
At night, Ken's favorite thing to do was to go out into the ocean with everyone and play games with a beach ball. It was nice having the water warm enough to get in. Last year we went during March and it was icy cold.
On our way out of Mexico, we stopped at a little taco stand and I got to love this little three month old colt. He was so tame it was amazing! It made me miss my caballo's back home!
After the wonderful weather we got to enjoy, it was hard to come home in a snow storm. We were all wearing our flip flops, shorts and short sleeved shirts. The roads were a sheet of ice near Strawberry reservoir and several cars had slid off the road so we stopped to see if we could help one poor man who was clear down an embankment. The boys toes and legs were freezing when they helped him up the steep hill so we could give him a ride to his home in Myton. It's always an adventure with the Christenson's!
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