August 18th - 5am
Dan sets his alarm so that he can go for a run before getting ready to head to airport. However when the time comes - he pushes "snooze" until about 5:45am when he decides that traveling with 3 kids to Mexico would need all of his "energy" to accomplish. :)
We get to airport about 8am and get checked in. We traveled "lite" so 3 suitcases for 5 of us isn't that bad right? Well after transfer some items from our suitcase to the kids, we were finally under the weight limit. We grabbed a quick bite and headed through security. This was probably the funniest scene to everyone else. After finally getting all the kids shoes off and all the carry on gear into those gray trays - we attempt the security arch....Maddie first - she drug her hands along the sides, so she had to do it a second time. Then Zach - he was fine, and finally mom - because Dan and Krissy were still trying to get all the DVD players, DS's and cameras out to the trays. Maddie continues past the scanners - thankfully there was a security person who stopped her and brought her back - because I was - well, trying to get Zach back through security since he went out again. Ugh!! And we are not even out of San Diego.
We all made it through security, shoes and all and on to the plane. Maddie, Zach and me where in seats D,E,F - Maddie had the window, Zach the middle and I was on the aisle. Dan and Krissy where across the ailse in B and C. We left 50 minutes late and the little ones where excellent on the take off. They quickly settled in with movies and sticker books for our 1hr 53 minute flight. They each used the bathroom a couple times on the plane - wait - this is our first trip without diapers!! Hallelujah! Our landing in Cabo San Lucas (which is how Maddie prefers to say it) was a little rough - there was a small rain storm coming in. We walked off right on to the tarmack and into immigration. Breazed through that into customs and out to meet Mamama and Papapa. They got there before us!! We finally figured out that we were 1 hour ahead of San Diego - which made sense. We had a short wait then got on the shuttle to the resort.....I was not believing the we were anywhere near the water - since all I could see landing and from the airport was desert!! But we dropped down a small hill and there was the water - the white stucco houses and I was so very excited!
We got off the shuttle and needed to wait a few minutes for our room to be ready so we head off to the "cantina" for some lunch!! It was fabulous! I had the Chicken Fajitas and Dan had the fish taco's, krissy chicken tacos. The kids - grilled cheese. Smoothies all around.
We got to the room and settled in. Mamama and kids and I headed straight for the pool and swam for about a hour. Then we went up and enjoyed our deck with a beach view for a while - there was live music starting out at the restuarant and it was beach side. So Dad, Dan, Krissy and I went down to check it out. Zach was crashed out asleep so Mamama and Maddie stayed in the room.
We finally headed to bed around 10pm and slept ok - Zach was up and down all night but at least it was sleep. We will see what happens tomorrow.
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