An (almost) Perfect Trip to Mexico

The resort was a dream, especially at the wedding block rate. We should have had friends come and take advantage of that. :) And it was perfect that the day we flew out was our 6 year anniversary.

The first night we were there, there was a huge welcome party at a beach resort, complete with a mariache band. It was so fun to see Peter (the groom, in pic with craig), Sofia and a lot of Craig's friends from Columbia. (Peter and Sofia were 2 of Craig's favorite classmates at Columbia in NY. He is from NJ and she is from Cabo and they met at Columbia).

We went to a yoga class on the beach early one morning, and Craig was the most unflexible, but the best at the final pose. All of our free time was spent in the ocean, swimming and surfing, by the pool-with craig anxious to leave for the surfing beach, or eating tacos- the guy at Los Michoaganos recognized Craig on our last day there. (According to Craig, the "best pork taco, or maybe even the best thing I've ever eaten.")

The wedding was quite an affair. Sofia was the most beautiful bride.  The ceremony was in an old Catholic Church in the town center which was so full of Star Gazer Lilies, you could smell it down the block. (Between the church and the beach club the reception was at, they used over 9,000 lilies to decorate!! All opened to the perfect bloom and the yellow pollen tips had been trimmed off each one.)

The wedding ceremony was at 5:30pm, then we headed straight to the beach reception. The party went until 6am!! They know how to throw a wedding in Mexico. We didn't even finish dinner and dessert till 11pm and she didn't cut the cake till almost 3am. There was tons of dancing....even at 1am, we could barely squeeze on the dance floor-that pic of Craig and his buudy, Tarick, dancing with the masks was at 2am. That fire pit was on the beach and Sofia's dad surpirsed her with a HUGE firework show in the middle of the party. It definitely reminded me of Meet Joe Black. We left right before they served breakfast at 3am.


The next afternoon, there was a brunch at her parent house on the beach. Beautiful.

I kept telling Craig that this is exactly what Phoenix would look like if it were on an ocean. I've never been to a beach in a desert like this.

So....we were really lucky we made it to all of the above, because as we were going through customs in Cabo on the way in, Craig was informed that his passport was expired and he wasn't allowed in or out of Mexico.  After talking with the customs agent (in Spanish of course), he was allowed to go through, but with the warning that there was no way that they would let him fly out without a current passport. We were told to go to the consulate's office to try to get a 1-day extension letter. It was closed at noon on Friday, so we had to wait till Monday, the day of our flight, to talk to them. On the phone, they basically told Craig, "no way", they hadn't been doing those letters for 3 years. They told him to try talking to the airline. Which we did. To no advail. So this time, we drove to San Lucas, to talk to the consulate's office in person. No luck at all. They said he could wait for 4 days for a rush extension on his passport. This is one of those times that it would be nice if your dad were president.

Back to the airport, he dropped me off just in time for my flight-someone had to get home to the kiddos-and said he was going to try to get a flight to Tiajuana. He would try to call me later. I didn't hear from him the rest of the afternoon, till that night when he called for a ride. He had taken a flight to TJ, then a cab the 5 miles to the border, and walked across just fine. Evidently, an expired passport is OK if you have a valid drivers license-when you are crossing on the ground and not in the air.

I'm just glad we live in San Diego (close to the border) and that I got my husband back.