Stuart and Frieda's Mexican Adventure Part 2

So this part of the trip was so much more fun to do but isn't as good of a story as the rest of the trip. Needless to say it was phenominal. I have never seen the Pacific ocean or stayed anywhere that had five stars to its name. The water was so warm and there were big waves crashing onto the shore everyday. Stu tried to surf with very little success but he did get to go body boarding and he loved that. I tried to go out swimming with him but found that I was too light to not get pushed around by the waves.

The resort was amazing, the non-alcoholic drinks were great and thats all we drank. The food was so-so but we weren't there for the food. It was so nice to just relax, walk on the beach, swim, sleep and eat whenever we wanted to. By Tuesday we were missing the kids though. The resort phones wouldn't except the phone card that we had bought to call Stu's parents so we had to wait for the off chance when we were in our room when they called and then we could talk to the girls. OK only Grace but we would have talked to Laura had she been able to.

Stu at the Montreal airport waiting for our flight home. He got to fly first class.

On the Wednesday that we were there it rained and was chilly. Not bad for only having one crumby day out of seven so we decided to leave the resort (something I swore I wouldn't do) and go into the city. There were a bunch of other Liberty Security sales people there from Alberta that we were able to go with. We jumped into the back of a taxi pick up truck (Mexican traffic laws are surprisingly lax) and toured around Mazatlan for the day.

Everything I had ever seen or read about Mexico is true. To be honest I assumed that most of the stuff I saw in movies were just generalizations and unfair stereotypes but I learned that that isn't the case. Mexico is poor, the cities smell different, it's definately not somewhere that you want to walk around in with flip flops on when its raining and you can't drink the water anywhere. Even the resorts.

There were definately places that only tourists were supposed to go and we went to those markets and they were lovely but being with a few return missionaries who had served in Centeral America we saw the regular market (with rediculously cheep fabric), the cliff divers and the real city. It was amazing.

Water volleyball in one of the many pools at the resort. Stu's there somewhere.

Looking for seashells on the Pacific Ocean.


Me.

Be cuddly in the hotel room.

The resort.

The shore is considered public property. Vendors such as this hat guy would stand on the shore and try to sell you stuff whenever you went to the beach.

One of the main pools at the resort as well as the swim up bar; lots of fun.

The view of the mountain from the Mexico City airport.

On our last full day in Mexico a bunch of the Liberty people went zip lining. It was sooo much fun. Basically you drive out into the middle of the country which is heavily involved with the drug wars, go to one little town where they drive you up a mountain and you get to zip line back and forth across these mountains until you get to the bottom.

It was breath taking and so beautiful. The Mexican countryside was amazing too. Did you know that traffic often gets stopped for cows just meandering along the middle of the road? The town that runs the zip linging also feed us lunch. It looked really good and was as authentic as you can get but I really have a thing with cleanliness. After seeing the bathrooms that were in the town I decided to A: hold it and B: eat lunch when I got back.

The sunset on the Pacific Ocean. This view is from our hotel room.

It was an amazing trip. Stu and I had so much fun but then we still had to get home.