| | ~Mexico Trip 2008/09
|  (0o F) | The last time I wrote one of these up was about this time last year for our annual trip to Mexico visiting family. I had laid out every day in detail and highlighted what happened even if it was just what we ate that day. Kind of silly I know, which is why I'm not going to both with all that effort this time. Instead I'm just going to type and see what comes out... It may not be in the correct chronological order or anything like that, but you will know that it happened sometime during the 17 day vacation.
Let's start with the biggest highlight of the vacation, the Christmas Eve Fiesta! Like many years before this one, the family gets together for great food and some gift exchange on the Eve of Christmas. This year was only slightly different than years I have had experience with, it was @ a different house. It was still fun and we still had great food headlined by turkey, ham & roasted pork leg... all VERY good. It was excellent to see everyone again and see how some people have changed and others not much at all. We only exchanged gifts with the kids this time (another slight modification) and that was fun. After things started dying down around 2am a bunch of us went across the street and played @ the playground :) Luna was up and was able to slide down the slide a couple of times and she and I swung on a swing too. Good times.
The following morning ended up being the BIG gift opening back @ my mother-in-law's house. It was there that we exchanged most of the gifts we brought since they were for more immediate family. It was a great time and LOTS of gifts were tossed around. I think we started @ around 9:30am and were not done until 1 or so, it was great. Lots of laughs, smiles, hugs and just all around joy in the place.
New Year's Eve was another highlight of the trip. We spent the evening with family and kicked off the new year with fireworks. However, before the fireworks we had a good meal of sushi! It was very good and we even had pizza for those who didn't care for the Japanese quizeen.
New Year's Day contained yet another trip highlight (all food related of course). We grilled juicy Chihuahuan steaks for a grand meal and even took some time to have a little birthday party for Lydia (Jan 3rd). The cake we had for the party was really good... nice butter cream frosting.
Before Christmas we took an evening trip downtown Chihuahua and saw the light show. It was only about 10 minutes long, but it was pretty incredible. It showed the history of the city in a light show displayed on the largest cathedral in the city center, very cool. It was something I had never seen done before. That even we also stopped at a bunch of little shops setup down there and even grabbed some churros!
A few more bits worth noting was the annual party with Wendy's theater friends (good times)... Visiting her best friend and new baby (born early December)... driving to Wendy's Dad's mom's house outside of the city and spending some time in a REALLY small town... Lots and LOTS of really good food: doggos, tacos, burritos, queso fondue, tortas, huge burgers... it was all great.
Overall it was a very nice relaxing vacation. It was great to see family and watch/listen to Luna learn so many new Spanish words. She is a smart one. That's all for now.
| | ~SirPatrick | (today's weather) |
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| | Posted 1/4/2009 7:30 AM - 16 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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