Our buddies have been begging us to come for the past few years. Matt said "No - no -no". Too dangerous. (Even though he grew up going every year in jr. high and high school - Even though his in-laws live on the border). However this summer in Cali when we stayed on the beach to watch the sun set - and froze our rear ends off - he finally lifted his moratorium on Mexico travel - and we bolted down there to catch some peaceful, happy moments and be totally "off the grid" (except for a few business calls).
Really the only hook needed to convince me was that the water temperature gets to be close to 80 - I'm sold. Oh and beachfront rental with 4 pools and hot tub for $125/night sold again. Oh and we had the entire beach to ourselves - sold. Oh and nachos for every meal with the "fresh caught fish" tacos thrown in to mix it up - sold...sold...sold.
#1. Safety - we were totally safe. No issues. Security walks up and down the resort every 10 minutes.
#2. Drive - 5hrs from Prescott. First you hit Phoenix, then Gila Bend, then the border, then an hour to the beach. Easy peasy - no traffic, no millions of people.
We have friends that go down and are involved in wonderful service projects - I hope to be able to be involved the next time we return - there is a great need.
Now trying to find this place for the first time is very tricky. You would THINK they would put up signs to the beach directing incoming traffic....but NO they don't care if you find it or not. Little did we know there was a wonderful hand painted sign that we completely missed the night before driving slowly through streets trying to point the car in the general direction of the big lights.
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| The view of the lovely little place we stayed - Bella Sirena. It has grass...pools...hot tub and beach. |
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| The kids hit the ground running. |
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| 5 minutes after running on the beach we had visitors. |
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| Instead of realizing her dream of becoming a dolphin trainer...Laina just jumped for joy (Mac chucked sand clods) |
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| Matt conducted business |
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| Our morning and evenings consisted of long long walks up and down the beach...the very empty beach. |
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| The boys went fishing and brought home yummy yummy fish for yummy yummy tacos. |
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| We loved it when our buddies showed up and we could tell them that YES they were right all along...and we had been missing out. |
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| Dead jellyfish |
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| Matt had serious time to do some serious life contemplation. |
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| Laina agreed to have her hair braided (thankfully she forgot about the time when she was 3 years old and her mother forced her to get her hair braided and she hid under a blanket for 3hrs solid). |
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| We ran into town and pulled our baskets around the store...filling them up with homemade tortillas and guacamole and chips and salsa. |
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| Speaking of dolphins...we had our own dolphin trainer on hand :) and a couple of dolphins to work with :) |
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| Good thing we had Bart to jump in and throw boys around |
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| Adios Mexico!! Good thing Indy is obsessed with speaking espanol - now we have an excuse to make more trips south of the border! |
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| on another note...I worked so hard on our mega family movie that I started to doubt the need for photos...but then a photo like this shows up and I realize there will always be a need for moments frozen in time. |
5 comments:
sold sold sold!
Man....need to go....SOON! We stayed at the Mayan Resort and loved every minute of it. TIme to schedule a trip.
Chredna - you are 2 hours away!! by a brand new toll road...no excuse!! I told Kathy she's coming with us next time.
wow! that looks like a blast! and Ella has the cutest bootie ever!
Cookie-I couldn't agree more!
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