Smiling Mom

Hubby and I took our first real vaca­tion together since we were married six years ago.  And we took it without kids!!  Thanks to my mom and dad, we were given the gift of time to recon­nect, relax, and enjoy Mexico’s Yuca­tan Penin­sula.  It was gor­geous!!  Hubby deci­ded to blog send daily emails to our family to let them know how our trip was going.  I called this a blog­ging, he did not.  Wha­te­ver.   Since he did the leg work, I thought I’d steal his words and sprin­kle in a few addi­tio­nal pic­tu­res for your enjoy­ment! 

Good mor­ning, ever­yone!  It’s now 10:40 am on Wed­nes­day, July 30^th. Nette and I just got back from break­fast where we had much of the same as yes­ter­day. The plan for today is to walk down­town. We need to purchase our bus tic­kets for tomo­rrow to get back to the air­port in time. Appa­rently the bus sells out some­ti­mes, so we’re buying the tic­kets a day ahead. Besi­des that, there’s some shop­ping we’d like to do for the kids.

Yes­ter­day was awe­some. From 9:00 am until 4:00 pm, Nette and I laid on chaise lounge chairs at the beach. Whe­ne­ver we got too hot, we’d simply go down, take a dip in the water, and come back up to the chairs. We both got a ton of rea­ding done and some pretty good sun­burns (des­pite being sha­ded almost the entire time). At about 2:30 pm a rains­torm got us, but it was still warm enough for us to stay at the beach as it passed.

(Note to self… next time hide all evi­dence of you being topless on the beach prior to taking the only photo of your hubby on the beach…)

At 4:00 pm we got up, came back to the room, clea­ned up, and rela­xed from our “exhaus­ting” day at the beach. Then, it was off to happy hour. You already got that photo, but you may not have noti­ced what we were drin­king. Nette got a Mai Tai while I got something they named after the hotel. It was just about as foofy as they come — it was pink. I love me my foofy drinks!

Din­ner was a BBQ com­plete with susage, ribs, chic­ken, flank steak, and all the Mexi­can fixins. It was deli­cious. After din­ner we read some more and thus ended an inc­re­dibly rela­xing day.

This pic­ture is the view from our seats at the beach at about 6:00 pm last night. As you can see, it is still warm enough to go swim­ming late at night…