Adventure time!

It's the weekend! (More or less. It's Wednesday and I'm only now posting this...but it's about the weekend) Guess what that means! Hopefully you can guess from the heading...

Yeah. So Carly and I went adventuring Saturday. I've never taken the bus back in the states, but I know how it works, more or less. Here in Mexico, it's a little different. You basically just wave down the bus as it's speeding past, and to get off you just tell the driver to stop, and viola, you get off wherever the heck you please! In between getting on and off, it's a lot of crazy (And by crazy, I mean adrenaline-infused scary) driving and swerving to the side of the road to pick up people. The drivers talk on their phones and everything! It's pretty entertaining.

After a while, we found ourselves on the side of the road with direction to go down a couple block then take a right. We ended up taking an early right and walking through a fairly sketch neighborhood full of shacks and horses. But don't worry! It led us right to a gorgeous beach! After wading around waist-deep in the ocean for a while (note: The waves here a tiny. Like little baby waves compared to back home. No surfing for us!), we climbed up this big rock pile to dry off and work on our farmers' tans (or burns). Somewhere in the midst of swimming and sunning, someone decided it'd be fun to steal my 5 year old, falling apart pair of converse, and one sock. So I went traipsing around on the blistering hot sand, dust, and streets wearing one sock. Really makes a fashion statement. On the way home we stopped at good ol' Walmart for groceries and a new pair of shoes for one of us hehe.

Around 5:30, after some down time at the house, we were about to head out in search of fresh fruit and tacos, when we were ambushed by a small army of children telling us it was time to go to church. Apparently their church has a Saturday night service once a month so that the families can enjoy a day together. So we went to church. Before the service we played a pretty intense soccer game. Joshua and Marcos vs. Carly and I vs. a stray dog. The dog won. Between having 4 legs and teeth, she was a little hard to beat.

Sunday was filled with early morning sunshine, hot chocolate with the kids, and exploring Maneadero on foot. We found lots of places we want to take the kids to; the pet store (THEY HAD SO MANY BABY BUNNIES! Along with a lot of the same animals I sell at PetSmart), ice cream shop, park, all the while brainstorming things we could back at the house. Maybe a sleepover with the girls? Banana boats at sunset? Homemade ice cream? I guess we'll find out!

There was some big hullabaloo going on at the house by the time we got back, complete with presents for the kids, pizza, cake, much needed food and supplies, and a killer sax player! The kids loved the music, and the smiles and crazy dance moves abounded!

Then in the evening we had tacos at my favorite taco stand. I decided to try a torta this time, and man, I am sold. It was fanTASTic.

TTFN