Ok, guys…this is the beginning of my longest trip report yet. I will include pictures along the way so hang in there. It will take a little while to complete. Without further delay…
Saturday, June 10
Well, it’s almost that time. We leave in less than 24 hours for paradise!
We shipped the kids off to Dallas to stay with Mimi (my mom) while we’re gone. While Jeff was busy assuring our youngest he could ride the airplane with his sister and without us, I was busy finishing my last high pressure tanning session. Finished tanning…Jeff still doesn’t have the kids on the plane. I’m starting to sweat it and get scared Christian will pull a stunt and not be allowed on the plane!
Finally, Jeff called and said the door was closed and the plane to Dallas was pushing back from the gate. There’s no turning back now! Woo-hoo! The kids are gone. When we arrived, Packy and Andrea (Ladybug) were waiting for us at the house. It is time for our “adult’s only” vacation!
Let me give you a little background information about our friends. Jeff and Packy went to high school together. When I met them we were in college. Jeff was my college sweetheart. Fast forward a few years and Packy brings Andrea and her son to one of our weekly cookouts. Everyone instantly loves Andrea and Riley. Riley and our daughter, Madison are a month’s difference in age (they were both about a year old). We all breathe a sigh of relief as Packy has finally found “The One” and we love her! Eventually we graduate and move on in our lives. Moving on doesn’t mean we forget them, it just means that we don’t get together like we used to. Not to mention that we move to opposite sides of the state (about 6 hrs. away). Jeff and I were planning our trip to Playa around Christmas and we got a call from Packy. We decided we had to bring them on this trip with us, as they were about the only friends we had that we knew we could stand to be around for an entire week! We talked them into taking this trip with us and are so glad the agreed.
Now, back to the trip report…After a nice dinner and a last minute trip to the stores, we were off to the house to load and weigh our suitcases. Packy’s suitcase had to go on a diet as he thought he needed everything from his home to take on the trip. We spent an hour on the phone trying to verify the actual weights allowed on suitcases with Aero Mexico as there were just “some” things Packy couldn’t do without!
Shortly thereafter, we began taking shots of tequila…warming up our livers for the next week’s adventures. We printed all of the info from Playa.Info that we had been collecting throughout the past 6 months…where we wanted to eat, shop, snorkel, etc. Well, that took forever! Everyone but me went to bed around midnight as we needed to be up at 3am to leave the house at 4:30am. I didn’t end up in bed until 2am.
