Adventures in Mexico - Part Deux!

Day 0 – Today I tried to sleep in as long as possible, since I knew I was going to have a long day ahead of me. After I finally got up, I went through my morning routine of going to the gym, drinking my protein shake, and getting ready for the day. I went through all the last minute stuff that I needed to do before I left, like putting a mail hold in, turning down my water heater, and making sure everything I was going to need was packed and ready to go. After I buttoned down the house and packed up my car, I had a nice dinner out at the Old Spaghetti Factory. It's too bad that their service is so slow, because I absolutely love their crab ravioli dish. The place is always packed though, so everyone else must love their food too! Anyway, I finally made my way to the airport around 11pm, and proceeded to spend an hour checking in, because the idiots who work for Aeromexico had issues with every single person checking in. I had checked in online, thinking it would speed up the process, but they just got confused and took forever trying to figure out how to print out luggage tags for my bags. After they finally figured it out, I went to pay the $40 for my extra bag, only to find out they don't take credit cards… WTF???!! I didn't have any cash, and didn't see any ATM machines around, so after I made a bit of a fuss, the girl finally just let me go, and didn't make me pay. Score 1, yay! Another Aeromexico complaint though, once I got to the gate, all of the boarding announcements were in Spanish. Ok, I understand that most of the passengers speak Spanish, and we were flying to Mexico, but seriously? we were still in the U.S., and there are people who fly to Mexico who would appreciate an English translation… but, whatever. At least I understand Spanish, so I knew what was going on, I just thought it was pretty rude and ignorant. At least the flight was pretty good, nice and short, and I managed to get an hour of sleep before we landed in Guadalajara.

Day 1 – Landed in Guadalajara around 6am, and made it through immigration no problem. Waited almost 30 minutes before I got both of my bags, and then made it through customs no problem. Dad met me at the arrivals area, and holy crap it was cold out! Like 40 degrees… burr! The dogs were excited to see me, and Spike spent almost the whole 4-hour trip home on my lap. The drive home was pretty interesting, except for the parts when I was napping! We drove through Tequila, which I'm hoping to go back and see more of on the way back to the airport in a few weeks. The only really sucky part was the horrible smoke-filled air in and around Guadalajara. I don't know if there was a big fire somewhere or what, but it was really gross breathing in all that smoke and my lungs felt like crap for a good 2 hours. After we finally made it home, I unpacked and settled into my beautifully clean room (thanks Michelle!) The weather was much warmer here by the beach, thank goodness. Of course, I had to go dip my toes in the water, and I played with the dogs on the beach for a bit. Around 2 in the afternoon, I finally decided it was time for my first celebratory drink and sat by the beach to start my blog. We didn't do much else today, we were all pretty exhausted. We had a few drinks with Bill, Paul, and Don the realtor, had dinner, and I took a little nap. By 8:30, I was almost hallucinating I was so tired, so I turned in for a very early night.

Day 2 – After replenishing my sleep levels, I finally woke up after 12 beautiful hours. I felt a bit groggy, but after my morning fruit/veggie drink, I felt a lot better, so I decided to take Nieve for a quick jog. We went for about 2 miles, but she was getting too hot, and there were too many stray dogs that kept trying to fight with her, so I had to cut our run shorter than I would have liked. We jogged a little on the beach after we got back, so at least I got in about 30 minutes of running today! Dad went SUP'ing with Bill while I was running, and right now he's filling up his kites with air, I'm guessing so he can go kite surfing today. I'm just enjoying the view with my protein shake, that tastes like crap since we don't have any milk yet. That's about the only thing on my to-do list today – find milk! We'll see what kind of adventure that turns out to be…
Later in the day… tried to fly kites on the beach (windsurfing kites), not much luck, but almost decapitated some kids on a 4-wheeler driving by. Had beers at the Bahia 63 restaurant/bar/camping place by Jeff's house. Went grocery shopping in San Blas, everything was closed for siesta &/or because it was Sunday. Had a drink at the social club. Went shopping in Aticama, found Lactose-free milk! Bought ribs & oysters for dinner. Had margaritas at Casa Manana. Cooked dinner – salad, corn, garlic bread, oysters, and ribs. Yum!!

Day 3 – Woke up with a cold :( Hoping it will go away after the vitamin-packed drink I just made. We'll see. I'm due for a bad cold though, so I have a funny feeling this one is gonna stick around for a few days.