Sunday August 23, 2009

Happy birthday to my Granddaughter Lexi, she is sweet 16 today. Happy anniversary to Stacy and Jessie, my Son and Daughter-in-law, who is having their 7th wedding anniversary tomorrow! Happy engagement to my daughter Pamela and almost Son-in-law Derek, they are getting married next spring in the Mayan Riviera Wow, August is an awesome month.

We have booked our Vegas trip and will be leaving paradise September 4th and coming back on the 8th. We are going to see Three Dog Night and Canned Heat on Freemont Street! I have booked my trip to see my new Granddaughter Melanie and of course my other granddaughter Cami, my son Stacy and Jessie my daughter-in-law. I leave on the 3rd of October and coming back on the 10th. I thought Jessie’s Mum was going to be there so I only booked a week because I didn’t want them to have too many people in their house but I found out today that Jessie’s Mum won’t be there until 6 weeks after Melanie is born so I could have stayed longer. I can’t change my ticket now I’m afraid.

We took off to John and Christie’s to do out internet stuff and so I could use their VoIP phone line to call Pamela, Lexi and Stacy. Ross talked to his good friend Brett and he asked for more pictures so that is why I have attached so many. After we did that we took off to Vallarta to pick up some plumbing stuff from Home Depot, (that is where we bought our mailbox for way too much money, but that is how much they are)(we found our mail outside our gate the other day, soaking wet from the storm, so it didn’t matter how much they were we needed one). After that we went to Wallyworld to pick up a few groceries then off to Liverpool Mall to go to the Sirloin Stockade for a marvelous buffet with a 2 for 1 dinner. Something that we found shocking was when we tried to enter the restaurant, a guy wearing a mask gave us some hand sanitizer and then he took our temperature before allowing us to go into the restaurant. Because of the N1H1 scare Mexico is being proactive rather than reactive. It was disconcerting but then again it was reassuring. We are very impressed with the Mexican public safety system for example, 2 weeks ago someone from the health department came by our house looking for standing water, we had some in a sink in our back yard so they gave us a small bag with chemicals in it to put in the water that kills the mosquito larva to keep Dengue fever in check. They spray the fields every once in a while, again to keep the mosquito population as low as possible.

We are now at home relaxing watching Criminal Minds and as soon as I have finished my blog we will watch a bit of Coronation Street before bed. There is a Gecko crawling across my ceiling as I am typing we have named him Herman! He’s about 5 inches long and really skinny and such a cute face!

I am going to say goodnight for now, I hope everyone has a great day tomorrow.

Ross and Kim in Paradise