I am back!
The trip was an absolute blast (I mean, how could it NOT be?), and despite various lessons learned, I am already looking forward to Mexico Mama’s v.2009.
In order of appearance:
1. It’s best to not fill out a customs form after multiple in-flight mimosas. Or you end up with this:
2. When being removed from said group of 19 fellow moms, it’s best to find a way to signal what’s happening. so they don’t automatically assume you’re being searched, probed, and otherwise violated in a back room. (What’s the appropriate signal for “I’m an idiot and can’t read”?).
3. Be prepared for the group cheer that will erupt (in a very non-subtle way) when you reappear with a new (correct!) customs form in hand.
4. iPhones do not like water. Especially toilet water. Particularly toilets in Mexico.
5. I currently do not have a cell phone. Email is best until I a) find a way to dry out my kamikaze iPhone, or b) find an extra $300 to afford a new one.
6. Dirty Monkeys are our friends. Double Dirty Monkeys are *really* good friends.
7. Z-packs are only $25.0o (USD) at any local Pharmacia y Bistro. I’m just sayin’…
7.5. “Dirty Hot Guy” walks through the market every day at 1:30. Wearing just his speedo. ‘Nuff said…
8. Chartered flights can (and will) be late on the return trip.
9. Five extra hours in any airport is more than tolerable with you are without children and in possession of a great book. And drinks. And 19 of your new best girl friends.
10. Your husband will think you are a goddess when you make it through customs with three Cohiba cigars from the duty free shop. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
And so…I am back! Sunburned, itchy, and without a cell phone, but relaxed and happy all the same.
So we played, and laughed, and practiced walking (with help, of course):
Mom and Dad were such laid back, casual people…just how I like ‘em!
We even braved today’s chilly, windy weather for a chance to photograph on their front steps (I love texture!).
And there was this funny looking cow on their front steps….Being the Aggie-at-heart that I am, I wasn’t quite sure what to tell Miss Natalie about her parents’ love for all things orange and white.
In the end, I think this shirt says it all. 
