Javier took a week off of work in November, and one in December or he would lose them. We had no plans. We had looked into going to San Diego for a couple of nights - but with 2 hotel rooms per night and tickets to Legoland or Sea World it was going to be way out of our budget. We searched Craigslist and found an amazing deal on Thursday night for a trip to Mexico. It was for a week timeshare that started that Saturday at the same 5star resort we went to last year. We confirmed the reservation on Friday and packed in a hurry and left Saturday after Jordan's game. Again it was about $55 a night for 3 rooms (including tax) - 2 bedrooms with a kitchen and living room (with pull out beds) in between! The person selling it to us couldn't use her time share at the last minute because her daughter was in the hospital, so she sold it to us for about 1/2 of her cost! We couldn't even find 1 hotel room in San Diego for that price, let alone 3 rooms at an awesome resort. Also, the drive to Rocky Point is only 4 hours instead of 6 to San Diego.
This again was just so exciting that this would all fall in place on the week that Javier already had off and at a price we could afford. Also, since it had a kitchen, we could cook most of our meals in the room (can you imagine how much it would cost for a family of 10 to eat out 3 meals every day for 1 week!) God provided!
A few times we went in to town to buy carne asada tacos (grilled steak tacos). When we pulled up to the taco shop in someone's garage, he said, "We give good discounts to church groups." (in Spanish) - He saw our big huge white van and assumed we must be a church group :). We would buy about 18 tacos, beans, fixings and a few drinks all for $20! We returned to the same place a few times and became friends with the family and they even showed us around their house.
This was our 3 little boys' first experience at the beach and they loved it! All of our kids loved it. This is the best place for our family. This year it was especially dead and it just had several older people there, so we didn't have to worry about our kids at all. They all loved the kids and loved talking to us and watching our little parade of kids go by the pool several times each day.
Jameson sneaking somebody's beer that was left there - LOL
The kids enjoyed playing bingo, beach soccer, karaoke, building sand castles, collecting shells, swimming in the heated pool and playing in the ocean (which wasn't as cold as the outdoor pool).
One day Jordan was running into the ocean to throw back a shell that had a crab coming out of it and he stepped on a sting ray. He was bleeding and in a lot of pain so we carried him back to the hotel. The hotel doctor wanted $300 to clean it up and give him a shot. Javier asked if he would die without it, and the doctor said no, so we just took him back to the room and soaked it in hot water. A lady we had met was a nurse and she said to give him Tylenol and Benedryl and just soak it - and he was feeling much better (just tender) within a couple of hours. Now he is so proud of his "war story" and we call him Manta Raya Jordan(in Spanish).
The second to the last day our friend, Socorro, came to meet us there. She LOVED it and we loved having some extra help. She then road home with us for Thanksgiving.
This again was just so exciting that this would all fall in place on the week that Javier already had off and at a price we could afford. Also, since it had a kitchen, we could cook most of our meals in the room (can you imagine how much it would cost for a family of 10 to eat out 3 meals every day for 1 week!) God provided!
A few times we went in to town to buy carne asada tacos (grilled steak tacos). When we pulled up to the taco shop in someone's garage, he said, "We give good discounts to church groups." (in Spanish) - He saw our big huge white van and assumed we must be a church group :). We would buy about 18 tacos, beans, fixings and a few drinks all for $20! We returned to the same place a few times and became friends with the family and they even showed us around their house.
This was our 3 little boys' first experience at the beach and they loved it! All of our kids loved it. This is the best place for our family. This year it was especially dead and it just had several older people there, so we didn't have to worry about our kids at all. They all loved the kids and loved talking to us and watching our little parade of kids go by the pool several times each day.
Jameson sneaking somebody's beer that was left there - LOL
The kids enjoyed playing bingo, beach soccer, karaoke, building sand castles, collecting shells, swimming in the heated pool and playing in the ocean (which wasn't as cold as the outdoor pool).
One day Jordan was running into the ocean to throw back a shell that had a crab coming out of it and he stepped on a sting ray. He was bleeding and in a lot of pain so we carried him back to the hotel. The hotel doctor wanted $300 to clean it up and give him a shot. Javier asked if he would die without it, and the doctor said no, so we just took him back to the room and soaked it in hot water. A lady we had met was a nurse and she said to give him Tylenol and Benedryl and just soak it - and he was feeling much better (just tender) within a couple of hours. Now he is so proud of his "war story" and we call him Manta Raya Jordan(in Spanish).
The second to the last day our friend, Socorro, came to meet us there. She LOVED it and we loved having some extra help. She then road home with us for Thanksgiving.
It was almost exactly a year earlier that we were at the same resort hoping to hear news if we had passed court. This trip was a perfect celebration to reflect on all that the Lord has done for us in this last year. So for this Memorial Box Monday, we added a wrist band and shell to our box. Thank you Lord for giving us a much needed rest and relaxed family time after a hard year.
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5 comments:
Looks like such a great time! I went to college in Arizona and spent many weekends and Spring Breaks at Rocky Point. The tidal flats are amazing!
It looks like it was a blast! What fun!
Beautiful pics and so much fun. I love the first picture in the van. I never seen so large van from the inside. And your Jeremiah so like a twin of Javier in that picture.
how awesome, joy! and the pic of kids in the van was a...maz...ing! wow!
i am so glad that you were able to have such quality family time at an affordable price.
so fantastic! We thought it was so funny that you grabbed the camera before stopping Jameson with the beer mug :) Same thing we would have done. Miss you guys!
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