Rocky Pointe Recap....

First thing...... No Bugs!!!  OK, maybe a cricket or two but they were outside by the elevators and nowhere near our condo.  Huge Sigh of relief!!   This also meant  no excessive screaming from me which was a win for everyone involved!!

Really we had a great trip!!!!  Everything that I hoped for was there:  Friends, warm water, clean beaches, fun pools, lots of tortillas, warm sunshine, and a relatively easy trip (as easy as trips are with kids involved).

Now with kids...   For me a vacation with my children is not really what I consider a vacation.  It is a trip with a lot of work to get ready, a lot of work while you are there, and a lot of work when you come home.  But with this work, comes fun memories and moments to relax as a family.  These moments don't last long, because as soon as they feel like we aren't doing anything they become very very hungry, and very very bored.  Maybe I should change my name on vacation from Mom to Roxy, and then I wouldn't be responsible for their hunger or their boredom:)   I am grateful that my kids are older now, they all swim, (years of screaming through swimming lessons is paying off)  and I can sit by the pool without spending every minute trying to actually keep them alive. That little detail is a huge win in life!!!

Now part of the reason I loved this trip was we had lots of family and friends.  This acted as a boredom eliminator!  As J, likes to call me "Jen the Joiner",  I invite everyone to everything, so it turned out we had a pretty big crowd.  I do have to admit my favorite people of the trip (and my sister too:)  were the ones who pulled the trailer filled with paddle boards, volleyball nets, shade structures, sand toys, and on and on.  I will forever invite them everywhere we go because not only do I really love them as people, I LOVE all the entertainment they bring with them.  I love to paddle board, and the water in Mexico had no waves to speak of

so it is perfect paddle board water!!!!   Clearly, If you know me, you know I like to be entertained, (probably why I have birthed children who like to be entertained) so the endless activities to do was so fabulous!!

We spent hours on the beach enjoying each others company, all the fun games my favorite people brought, and employed all the workers around making bracelets, taking the kids on banana boat rides, braiding hair, cutting mangoes, and making burritos.
 Pure bliss, I tell you!!!

Now any trip wouldn't be a trip I was on without some type of mishap.  Unfortunately, this mishap involved me, a paddle board, and my Dior sunglasses from Venice, Italy.  I will admit I was convinced I had this paddle board thing down.  Ive done it in Florida, California, Arizona and in some pretty rough waters.  I haven't fell, so I  thought I never would.  That may have been true except.....  when you take a sea current, put two paddle boarders in it, and let them bump into each other, someones going down.  I was knocked right off my paddle board where I belonged:(  A little taste of humble sea water!   The truth is, I came up with my glasses on, but I put them on my head because they were so spotted I couldn't see through them.  At some point they silently fell into the water!!!!   I am crazy,  I admit it.  I spent hours, I mean hours combing the sea like I was searching for a missing person.  I mapped the area in my head and spent all my time one day going back and forth looking for my missing treasure.  I offered my own kids money to find them, random people on the beach money to find them, and upped the reward each day.  Every time a sunglasses salesman came up the beach I combed his inventory looking for my glasses!  I was sure I could find them!

They are just sun glasses, but they were from Venice, my favorite place on the planet, and I don't ever buy sunglasses.  I lose them, I know this, and so I have spent almost a year working so hard not to lose this pair.  In one instance gone!!!!!!  I also will admit, that I was a beast the rest of the day to J, who did not lose my sunglasses but also didn't give me the sympathy I thought I deserved for the tragedy that had occurred.  What a waste of emotion, they are sunglasses!!! The other point I should make is...   for all the tragedies I imagined that could happen to us in Mexico losing my sunglasses was comparable to breaking a nail.  So minor!!!

My kids came home, told their friends I lost my glasses and I realized the most talked about thing from the trip was my missing sunglasses.  I quickly knew this wasn't what I wanted to remember about our spring break.  I lost my glasses, sad!!  But, I spent time with my family and friends doing all the things I love most.  I love warm sunshine, clean beaches, warm water, paddle boards, family and friends.  It was the perfect Spring Break and a tradition that will last for years to come.  I really can't wait to go back!!!   Join us..... Next March, Spring Break 2016!!