Sailing, sailing, sailing the ocean blue

Hi everyone. It has been another exciting day down in Mexico. Grammy and Poppie were going to take us up to the mountains to a town called Rincon....hey, haven't I been there before? They have a really nice market and place to have lunch before we go to the beach and swim in the afternoon. But during breakfast, Poppy got a call and our plans changed. Instead we are going sailing today.

We pack up our day bags and walk down to the bus stop. Many buses come by us but none of them are the right ones. Down here, they paint the stops of where the buses go on the front window. One finally comes by that will take us out to the marina, which is on the other side of town from where we are. I get to ride the bus for free but everyone else has to pay 5 pesoes...about 30 cents US. They should really charge more than that. These buses have the worse suspension in the world!!! It feels like they have square wheels on them and the muffler vents right into windows. As things go, I fall asleep on the bus and wake up some place else.

I wake up in the bottom of this deep cave like place. I roll out of bed and there is a big ladder leading up to the top. I get half way up with Daddy picks me up and I am on the boat and we are leaving the marina. Poppy's friend, Dorr, has a 32 foot sailboat the Poppy races on each week. They have been racing together for the past couple of years and have won every race they have entered this year.

Once outside of the marina, we set the mainsail and raise the jib and we are off. Cruising around 6 knots, that is about 6.3 mph and having a fun time. Poppy even let me drive the boat.

We had a great day of sailing. We were out for almost 3 hours. I ran all over the boat, up and down the ladder to the hull where the galley, sleeping area's and extra sails are kept. We got to see all of PV since we sailed to the south and then game back up with the wind where we really picked up alot of speed.

We also also saw a sea turtle and lot's of pelicans. I did get to see the water splashing around from where the humpback whale had jumped out of the water. Poppy spotted it and Daddy saw it but I did not...boooooo

Hope to update my page again later today with what Mommy did all day on Friday.

Bye for now.

Street Meat - day 2

Here is a typical day for us down with Grammy and Poppy. We get up in the morning and watch some "american" tv shows.

We get dressed and walk down to Peter and Carmen's taco stand. It is close to where Grammy and Poppy used to live. Now it is about a 10 block walk. The little old lady working the stand, is Carmen. Peter was her husband and he passed away a couple of years ago.


You tell Carmen what you would like to eat and she pulls all of the stuff from the right and throws it on the grill and starts her magic. Each day we get a breakfast burrito with eggs, chirizo, onions, cilantro and beans for Daddy. His burrito costs alot, 40 pesoes. Mommy get's a pollo quesidilla and I get a plain cheese quesidilla, each are 18 pesoes. Mmmmm good stuff.



After breakfest on the way to the beach, we stop by the juice man stand. He presses oranges, carrots, beets, pineapple and grapefruit. He might of invented the first juice box. He pours my drink into a bag with a straw and then ties it up for me. This is really good stuff. Nothing like fresh juice every morning for 10 pesoes. That is about 75 cents or so.





For lunch we either eat at the beach and get some BBQ'ed shrimp or chicken on a stick that they walk around with or we walk to the lunch time taco stand called Marisca's. They only do seafood tacos. This up is a bit more upscale. You actually sit down, order your food from the menu on the wall and they bring it to you. Here each taco has some cabbage, carrots and then fish or shrimp. These are really good only cost 13 pesoes each..that is less than a dollar. Goodbye McDonalds menu...hello fish tacos.





I then come home and take a quick siesta. Mommy takes a siesta with me also. We get up and we deciede what to do for the rest of the night. We usually go across this really scary suspension bridge. Daddy has a movie of this that I will put up later. Then we walk down the river walk area with lot's of shops and everyone is always trying to sell us something. We get down to the Malacon where Grammy and Poppy know everyone and we walk from one end to the other. Once it is dark, we walk back to the church that is close to the house where the churro man is.




The churro man is great. He has built this custom machine that pushes the dough out like a chaulking gun, then cuts it into the hot oil. Then he picks them up and throws them in the brown sugar container and shakes them up. We then get the grande bag and walk home to have these for a snack. The grande bag only costs 20 pesoes. A big bottle of milk caps off the night.

This is just a fun day being in a new country. Will try to update again tomorrow with our day on the sailboat and Mommy's day as a dolphin trainer.

Adios amigo's

My first day outside the US of A

Hi everyone....I have now spent my first day outside the good ol USA. I am now only about 400 days behind Cousin Brian over in the Ukraine.

So it was an early day yesterday. Mom got me up and dressed before 7am....that is way early for me. Nana took us out to the airport and we checked in with my shiney new passport. We got some breakfast at McDonalds and headed for the plane. We had to wait a little while and then we were off. They provided us with free TV on the plane so I got to watch Nick Jr for a while. Dad took a quick nap, Mom took a quick nap but I didn't. I just pulled down all of the trays and played them like drums for the last hour of the flight. I know that the people in front of me loved it!!!

So once we landed we stood in line and a nice man asked me how long I was going to be here and stamped my passport...it was official. Grammy and Poppy picked us up at the airport and I gave them a big hug since I had not seen them in almost 2 months. We got in thier car and I promptly fell asleep. 2 hours later, I ended up in at Grammy's house. This seems to happen to me all the time. I fall asleep and end up some place that I have never been before. The worst part of this was everyone had eaten except me. They all had ribs and fries and I got chips and mac and cheese...I feel jipped at this point.

After eating, we went down to the beach so Grammy and Poppy "could show me off" to all of thier friends down here. They seem to know everyone or everyone know's them. It was nice to be back at the beach. The water was kind of cold but the sand was fun to walk in again like I did in Rincon.

I dont know what we are going to do today....maybe just hang out at the beach and have fun. I will try to update on things that we are doing. I made sure that Daddy brought the flip video camera so I can take some movies also.

Bye for now

Getting ready to travel is hard these days

So our vacation is quickly approaching. I love to have my picture taken but not when it comes to my passport photo. Mom and Dad have tried since December to get the right picture taken. We have gone to the Kinko's about 6 times and each time we think we have a good picture, it is not acceptable by the post office. Too big, shadows around my head, too small, not within the size range. After a while, Mom and Dad just gave up.

Time was running out and I still dont have the right picture for my passport. I finally decieded to cooperate and got a couple of good pics taken at Wolf Camera. We then had to schedule a meeting at the local passport office. We were outside of the timeframe of sending it in. So Mom makes the phone call and we head over there.

This place was locked down like Fort Knox. There were 3 men there wearing uniforms and carrying guns. We had to take off our coats and shoes, pass through the metal detectors, have everything go through the x-ray machine. The staples in my head did not even make the machine go off. They also let me keep my sippy cup with my coffee drink but Mom and Dad have to leave thier coffee's at the door and pick them up after we were done.

We then talked to a lady that who took all of my information. She took my pictures, birth certificate and alot of Mommy's money and told us to come back in 3 days. She gave a reciept and told us when we could pick up my passport. Dad went back over 3 days later and picked it up. He got to sign for me and brought it home.

I am now ready to head to Mexico, my first international trip. It wont be my longest flight though. The trip we took to Puerto Rico was longer. I do know some Spanish. I watch Handy Manny everyday.

So I have been practicing my swimming in the bathtub. I have not been able to get over to Grandma and Grandpa's to use thier pool so I have had to make do with what we have here.

Bye for now...will try to update again after the weekend. Lot's of fun stuff coming up.....also, our house is now on the market. Let's hope we can move fast...I need a bigger pool!!!

WOW...it has been a while huh?

Hi everyone...after last weeks fall down and staples, I am ready to go again and start with some things that I have been up to. This is the first of many updates that I will try to get to this week. Daddy has finally let me have some free time on the computer.

First....I am now 2!!!! I had this great birthday party at Little Monkey Business down in Lone Tree. We had a great time jumping around, rolling pillows, painting, eating and opening lot's of presents that I got. Grammy and Poppy were home from Mexico for my birthday this year. My gifts were great. I got a bunch of Thomas the Train stuff, some firetrucks, some t-shirts, indoor soccer goal, a bowling game. Mom and Dad got me a bouncy house that inflates in 30 seconds outside or inside.

This video is from me at my birthday party running around. I really like going to this place.

Here is one more video of me playing in my very own bouncy house. I like it alot and wish that it could stay up everyday but since Mommy and Daddy are trying to sell the house it can only be up at certain times.

Breaking news....check me out!!

So Mom had to write this up for me today since I really dont feel like typing right now....I will try to do a full update in the next week or so.

Around 9:00 am this morning Mason was running around the house, tripped, and bumped his head. He ended up with a nice little gash on the back of his head top left. My Mom and I took him to the doctors office. On the way there he slept and I tried to wake him up. We got concerned that he might have a concousion since he wouldn’t wake up much. When we got into a room at the doctors office he promptly woke up and talked about the ball he saw in a picture on the wall. The nurse came in and cleaned his wound. Mason didn’t even seem bothered by the cleaning. Then he played in the room while we waited for the doctor. The doctor came in and said that he would need staples and suggested that he get a litacain shot first to numb the area for the staples. The doctor gave Mason a lollipop. A nurse held his head still. While Mason sucked and chewed on his lollipop the doctor gave him the shot of litacain. Mason didn’t cry, he paused for a moment and then went back to eating his lollipop. Then the doctor started stapling Mason’s wound. Again, Mason didn’t cry and didn’t even wince! He just worked on his lollipop. Two of the staples didn’t go in all the way so the doctor had to pull them out. Still Mason didn’t wince or cry. The staff was amazed. They said this was not normal, that Mason was an atypical child in a good way. When Mason had to put the toys back that he was playing with, well that is when he cried. He wanted to stay there and play.

Below are pictures of today’s event.