Friday October 9th & Saturday October 10th, 2009

I am sitting at the airport in Mexico City while I’m writing this, the past couple of days have been hectic. I woke up at about 10ish and had coffee and some fabulous banana bread that Jessie made. Stacy and Jessie with the kids went to Jessie’s work to pick up her disability cheque and got home just in time to have coffee with me. We looked on line at the place where Pamela and Derek are getting married, I was going to book but I thought it would be a good idea to have the dates for sure on our airline tickets, so I’ll book probably tomorrow.

We picked Cami up from school at 1 and made the long drive to Atlanta. We stopped at a city called Commerce and went to the outlet mall and it was there I found my plastic margarita glasses that I have been looking for everywhere, I wasn’t quite sure where in my suitcase I was going to put them as it is pretty well packed solid. (We weighed the suitcase and it weighed 49 lbs, I only had 1 pound to play with!) After we had gone through almost all the stores we continued our drive to Atlanta and hit rush hour traffic, which actually was why we left so early so we would miss it. We plugged in Red Lobster in the GPS and found one close to where we were so that’s where we went for supper. I had lobster (of course, can’t go there and not get it) and 2 different kinds of shrimp, Jessie had shrimp and salmon and Stacy had all you can eat shrimp. Boy were we full.

We stopped at a grocery store and picked up a couple of toothbrushes and shampoo, Stacy and the gang stayed overnight with me and drove me to the airport in the morning. Yuck, it was awful getting up at 6am for a 9am flight! After we got my luggage checked we stopped at a restaurant for a bagel and coffee. I only had a half of the bagel and about 5 sips of coffee before I had to get in line for security. Leaving the Atlanta airport was a lot easier than arriving there, not so many hoops to jump.

The flight was uneventful, my headphones didn’t work very well so I gave up trying to watch a movie, I think I might have dozed a bit, I can’t sleep on the plane but I think I got a little down time. I got to Mexico City (it is huge it seems like we fly over the city for hours before we land!) at about 12:30 and stopped at Starbucks and had a coffee with a ham and cheese croissant I bought at another store. I found a 7-11 at the airport, I took a picture of it and bought some water and asked for a bag because I’m sure Ross won’t believe me, it seems like they might have pushed into Mexico??? It’s 3pm now, in about 20 minutes I have to go and ask what gate my flight will be at, they never know until the last minute. I leave here at 4:05 and get home at 5:30! I’m so looking forward to seeing Ross and our kids (BigDog, Gracie, Shadow, Tigger and of course Sunshine) and just sitting or maybe floating in the pool (I found some floaty things in SC that we were looking for, well not the exact ones but ones awful close). So I’ll say bye for now and will update everyone tomorrow!

Kim in Mexico City and Ross (still sick?) in paradise!