Viva la Mexico!

I believe in continuing to celebrate my 40th birthday ALL YEAR LONG. We finally took a couples only trip with our dear friends Mandy and Sean to Mexico. It was their first time out of country, and it felt super special. Some of the highlights included:

• All the food and drinks
• Sharing Diareque for upset tummies that seemingly hit us all-some down in Mexico and some once we got back
• Me messing up the date that we would be going on a tour and getting our whole group up at 530am only to realize it was the next day. OMG.
• Going on that said tour to find WHALE sharks. THIS was an extraordinary experience for me. I'm not sure my counterparts felt the same due to the length of the day/being on boats/snorkeling/etc. BUT this tour was everything to me! I had determined that I was going on this tour with OR without any of my friends, because I had this dream to swim with whale sharks. Luckily or not, my whole group signed up to go with me.
• SWIMMING WITH WHALE SHARKS AND MANTRA RAYS- was so amazing. It was worth the sea sickness that I felt on the way out of the hour long bus ride, plus hour long boat ride. I got to see the Whale Sharks eyes! I MEAN SERIOUSLY. And I swam right beside them. Insane. 
• I never gave up hope even when it looked like we wouldn't be finding enough whale sharks for the government to safely allow us to swim with them. But a few hours later, I said to some new friends on the boat. "I mean what if a whale shark showed up right now." AND I swear to god, it happened. AND I swam a couple times with this shark. SO COOL.
• We went into town one night for dinner and that was quite the experience. Vendors love tourists. I don't love vendors. It's like my worst nightmare- a bunch of people schmoozing you to buy theirs goods. BUT it was fun to see a different area, and then of course we walked back home on the beach during a storm. This has been a tradition of ours...nightly walks back home on the beach.

I really hope this isn't our last trip together:) I don't think it will be!

Love,
Meg