HalfMex

In June (yes, it was that long ago and I hadn’t written about it yet, as Elizabeth promised… sorry), Elizabeth decided we should take a final trip away before the baby arrives and before she is no longer able to take airplane rides. Our destination, Cozumel, Mexico. Neither of us had ever been there and we both obviously love Mexico. So, she found a good deal on FunJet and booked the trip with the travel agent we used for our honeymoon to Playa del Carmen.

So, on our departure day, we woke up at 4 a.m. to drive out to the airport. Houston traffic is so much better before 6 a.m. Once at the airport, we started our day of ‘waiting in lines’. By the numbers: we spent about 45 minutes in the ‘check-in’ line, 2 hours on the flight, 1 hour and 30 minutes waiting for 3 customs agents to process 3 full flights, another 20 minutes to wait in line to push the fail-safe stoplight button to see if pass or fail for a strip search, a 25 minute ride to the hotel, and finally a 15 minute check-in at the hotel only to be told we would have to wait 4 hours to be able to actually access our rooms. Just in time to miss the breakfast they stopped serving 10 minutes before-hand.

Two tips (literally):
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After 8 months of planning, we finally went, survived and returned from our annual Frio River trip. When we arrived, excitement was in the air at the prospect of how much fun we were all going to have. Between the cabin upgrade we made from last year, to the new water level from all the rain this year, our hopes were high. That is, until the storms started at 5am the next day. It poured until nearly 3pm on Friday, so we were all going a little stir crazy having to sit around when we really expected to have floated the river at least 3 times by now. The rain stopped and after we drove around to inspect the damage, we got report that the Game Warden closed the river, so we couldn’t rent any tubes (the locals adhere to the warnings).

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Most don’t know this, but Texas is the 2nd largest producer of wines in the US. I’d give you more facts, but I’m partially making this up as I go along. So anyway, the story goes like this. Elizabeth has been wanting to the Haak Winery in Santa Fe (Texas) for a while now. She monitored the events there for a couple of weeks and decided on going to one of their harvestings. So, the date was set and invites were passed out (verbal, not written).

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