Day 2 CANCUN! Subtitle: I LOVE AMERICA!

Day 2 Cancun:

Today we slept in, ate a huge breakfast, spent some time at the beach, walked 5 km to our dinner boat, and spent 3 hrs on Captain Hook's boat. A very good day overall. Lashel you would have loved breakfast..... all fresh fruit.

Subtitle I love America:

After being in Mexico for only one day I must say that I LOVE AMERICA! You know your not in America when you take a bus that is packed full of people and some of them are hanging out windows and door. You know your not in America when the speed limit says 70 km/hr but must just be a suggestion because the drivers barrel down the road at mock ten. You know your not in America when you have keep your eyes closed to keep yourself from shouting "JESUS" every time the driver turns a corner and nearly wipes out signs, pedestrians and other cars. You know your not in America when the bus driver just runs through red lights. And you know your not in American when the driver takes off before you have a chance to reach for the rail and take a seat, that is if you are lucky enough to get a seat. AND EVERYONE ACTS LIKE THIS IS SO NORMAL? Let just say that I am definitely more thankful that I have a country called America to call my home.

Sidenote: Everything here is EXPENSIVE. 27 pesos for a candy bar... that's $2.50! Ridiculous. Yesterday we paid 270 pesos for a meal of 3 tiny chicken strips, 4 small tortillos, and a scoop tortillo chip with a spoonful of beans, one can soda and a bottle water. That was $25!

Tomorrow we are headed to the Chichen Itza Ruins (or something like that). Adios until tomorrow.

(we have more pictures on our camera but unfortunately can't upload anything other than i-phone pictures :( )

We made it to CANCUN!

Hola AMIGOS! After two plane rides, security, baggage screened twice, immigration, customs, and wading through hordes and yes I do mean HORDES of Mexicans trying to get us to purchase their products at the airport, we FINALLY made it to our resort. This place is beautiful. We are staying at the Westin Resort and Spa, very adobe in style and a little dated but overall very nice. We have an ocean view, privacy balcony room.... oh la la. :) It was in the 70's today but a little windy. Tomorrow we are going on our dinner cruise, CAPTAIN HOOK! Adios

It's Christmas TIME!

It's hard to believe that it is Christmas time again! Crazy to think that last year around this time we were in a frenzy trying to get everything ready for the wedding. So glad that's an only once in a lifetime deal.

We decorated our tree Thanksgiving night. It was so much fun. We stayed up until 3am working on it and rearranging our furniture to accommodate it. I must say that all those wedding decorations came in very handy... here is the silver and white stuff left over from the wedding and now on our tree.

Only a few more days until Cancun! And only a few more days to finish Christmas shopping!

We had a very good Thanksgiving. I'm so glad my mom and dad came home for a while. It would not have been the same without them.

And THANK YOU TO MATT for taking our one year anniversary pictures.... check out his blog to see them.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Starting to look a lot like Christmas...

......at least at work. People already have their trees and decorations out.
Gonna try putting up lights on the house next weekend....that should be interesting! ~A

Our Weekend California Trip

^This is the neatest painting on a building. I thought of Matt when I took this. We walked around downtown in Fresno Friday morning. Everywhere we went were Mexican shops and everything was in Spanish. I was shocked to find something in English.

^With Grandma and Grandpa. I'm glad we got to spend some time with them.

Old friends are the best of friends... Brandi, Krista, and Matt.

^Traveling on Saturday

^Our $40 suit... yeah right.

This is at the LA garment district. It was like being in a foreign country. Seventy five cents to use the bathroom and then you have to wait in line for FOREVER! Everything is in Spanish... I think the vendors could tell we were gringos because we didn't find any good deals.

^One of my favorite nursery characters painted by my dad. If you haven't seen the pictures you are missing out. My dad did an awesome job painting the Booker's church.

^I'm very proud of my dad. I know very few men that have overcome as much as he has and still retained an God-given anointing. This was the first time I heard my dad preach in almost 5 years. I'll just say I'm very proud of him and leave it at that.

Love these ladies... Sis. Pierce and Alex. Alex is the best/prettiest girl inside and out hands down.

^This would be Daryn with his utterly COOL truck. I'm glad we finally got to meet him. :)