Goofy's Pumpkin

Goofy painted a pumpkin at school and brought it home today. It was in his bucket and he could barely carry his bucket over to me! (Yes, I helped him carry it to the car!)

Dingy said I never take pictures of her anymore.

He sat for as many pictures as he could, then he just had to be himself.

And he had to start rolling it.

And rolling some more.

And then.....

A little too far!

It's OK. :)

Random Pictures

Bottle of tequila shaped like a rifle.

They don't have that much rain where we went. This is the cute little bridge they built across the smelly water. We had an obstacle course to go across the one night getting back to the hotel. The boards kept getting thinner and higher!

We went to an Italian place (I know, but we couldn't eat Mexican the whole time!) They made the ceasar salad, dressing and all, right at the table. Rod was the only one (out of 8 of us) that ordered one. So this guy was making just Rod's salad.

Another bottle of tequila, only this one shaped like a pistol. (kids must play!)

The restaurant on the beach where we ate breakfast a couple of times.

I don't really know what this is supposed to be crawling up the side of the restaurant, but it didn't make me feel like going in to eat!

A Red Bull truck that they wouldn't let Rod drive. Yes, he asked. With as much Red Bull as he drinks, he probably bought the truck for them!

The plane that took us back to Atlanta.

A view from our room. There were different cruise ships coming in every day.

From Rod's fishing trip.

Danny and a Dorado.

Another view from our room.

A cruise ship coming in at sunrise. Don't ask why I was up at sunrise on my vacation.

Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar owns a bar and restaurant in Cabo called the Cabo Wabo. Every year on his birthday he comes in a does a few free concerts. We went the night before his birthday.

I'm only posting this picture because it marks an important time. Two seconds before this picture was taken, Rod burst my eardrum! We were inside the bar where he was playing and it was LOUD. It was the loud where if you were talking loudly to the person 3 inches from you, you still had to read lips to know what they were saying. So Sammy switched to this guitar, and Rod leaned over to 'whisper' in my ear that it is the same guitar that Dippy has. Well, whisper ISN'T what he did! I think the ringing stopped about 2 days later!

Go Karts

The Go Karts weren't as fun. I would have been happy just watching. We all got 2 turns. But Sara and I each only went once and let Rod and Danny have 3 turns each.

That's Rod in the lead. I don't know if he won or not. But I'll just post this so we can say he did. :)

More Fun

I'm still trying to get through all of our pictures fromt he trip. We went out to race in the desert one day.

This was the course.

You can see the ocean out there.

That was the car Rod and I were in. (but not us in it here)

There was one mud hole on the track. We hit it EVERY time we went around! One of the other couples came back without mud on them!

We did Go Karts too, but I didn't like them. I was a passenger with Rod for this ride and it was FUN! He didn't think I would like it cause I always yell about him going so fast over the bumpy roads up home. However, this was cool because I AM used to the bumpy roads from up home AND I was soooo strapped in I didn't move! Plus, I'm pretty sure a deer wasn't going to jump out in front of us. They did say we had to watch for burro and something else, maybe pigs?, on the track. We only saw geckos. OK. I only saw geckos. I guess no one else was gawking around while we raced!

My Highlight

The highlight of Rod's trip was obviously the fishing. THIS was mine! This completely and totally made my entire trip!

A Mommy sea turtle laid her eggs right by the steps to the beach at our resort. They had the area staked off to protect the eggs. (Someone from another resort had said that their eggs hatched earlier in the week. )
On Friday night, our last night there, we went to the lobby around 6:30 to go out looking for a cooler to ship home Rod's fish. The guy who gets you a taxi handed us a paper that said the eggs had hatched at 7 that morning and that the babies would be making their way out to the ocean at 7 Friday night. So we all ran through the lobby and out the back to the beach. We got there about 5 minutes before they started and we had an awesome front row view!

The babies were inside the big cooler.

One by one they laid them out on the beach.

The waves would knock them back up the beach some, too.

Some of them seemed to not being moving very much. Sometimes a wave would hit and it seemed to perk them up a little. They said that they give them 10 minutes to crawl on their own and then they help them into the water.

It was AWESOME to see. it was the one thing we saw there that I really wish the kids could have been there to see, too. I know they would have LOVED it.

Aunt una's birthday

Sorry Aunt Una! I DID remember your birthday, I just was nowhere near a computer to post anything for you. I mentioned it to Rod several times that week, because you share a birthday with Sammy Hagar and part of why we were in Cabo was to go to his birthday bash concert! So, sorry this is very late. I hope you HAD a great birthday!! WE had a good time on your birthday!! :)

More fish

Sorry these are a little out of order.

This is Rod taking the first bite of the freshest fish we have probably ever eaten! (We took a few fillets to the restaurant straight from the marina and had them cooked.)

This is fillets off the Dorado. (mahi mahi.....VERY good!)

The guy cutting the fish at the first table.....Yeah, that's our lunch he's cutting off!

This is the 'cutting station'. the pointy sword thingy hanging out of the chain fence beside the door is off Rod's marlin. He asked for it to be delivered with the fish, but it wasn't.

The dorados that they caught.

The fish!!

We made it back from our trip. I don't think I am ever going to get caught up on everything, though! We've been back for more than a day and I have only made it to the computer for about 20 minutes so far! That was long enough for me to find my new dog, but that's a story for later. :) There are so many posts and pictures I need to do, but I have to start with Rod's. We told his Dad we'd have the pictures up by Sunday night and now it's Monday afternoon and he hasn't seen the highlight of Rod's trip.

So here's Rod's highlight of his year. He got to go fishing in Cabo, and he caught a little fish. They caught three Dorados (known to me as Mahi Mahi...YUM) And then this little thing. It weighed 170 pounds and was 109 inches long. Now Rod can tell you this without having to ask anyone it's size. However, next time you talk to him, ask him how much his kids weighed when they were born!

This is how they get it from the boat to the weigh station. They lassoed it and drug it up the ramp.

Still going up.

Almost up.

And here it is hanging for pictures. (isn't it cute that Rod and Danny wore matching T-shirts?)

Keep watching the blog. The highlight of my trip is still to come along with many other litle stories and pictures!

Happy Half Birthday!!!

Happy Half birthday Dingy!! OK. It was yesterday. But we didn't get to eat her half cake until late so this post didn't make it up til this morning. (Thankfully Giant actually sells half cakes because I didn't have time to make her one.)

Sonic!!!

I told Dippy and Dingy that if they helped me clean the house over the weekend, I would take them to Sonic. So I got a clean house AND dinner at Sonic!

We ate our dinner outside at their picnic tables and then got our ice cream in the van. Dingy had wanted to eat in the van and I told her we'd just make a mess. And she proved me right!!

Can you see the chip out of her sundae cup? And yes, ice cream and hot fudge flowed out of it!!