One of the things on my "to do" list after selling our house last spring was to take a vacation with my kids. Yes I have taken them to NYC and Boston for a quick weekend many many years ago when they were little but this time would be a real vacation in a warm climate with a pool! My mom (who is a part-time travel agent) suggested in All Inclusive for our first trip and thought Nuevo Vallarta would be a great place to visit over spring break. I think the kids were suprised when I told them the news as they usually go to California with their dad over winter break, I don't think they ever believed I would take them somewhere warm and fun too!
It seemed like eternity but spring break was fast approaching and we were all getting excited. From buying bathing suits and sunscreen to checking a million times that our newly received passports were still in the same "safe" place in the house!
It was finally time to start packing which of course happened the night before, no one went to sleep before midnight and we were getting picked up at 4:45 AM! Who needs sleep when we were going to be in the pool by noon right? I think I only slept 3 hours that night! While we were all excited about going but our exhaustion starting taking over before even stepping on the plane. Needless to say things were a little rocky from the start. Fortuntately that was short lived as we all had a chance to sleep on the plane and felt refreshed as soon as we stepped out of the airport. Gorgeous skies and the beautiful sun greeted us with open arms, yeah we made it along with our luggage!
The next seven days and nights were filled with lots of swimming, eating and table tennis along with swimming with the dolphins which was very cool!
It wasn't all smiles and giggles 24/7, there was plenty of bickering going on between ALL of us, not just my precious jewels. I came up with a brilliant idea on our second night to have a cot sent up to our room and decided I was going to sleep on it outside on balcony under the stars with the beautiful sound of the crashing waves in the background. It was AWESOME and provided the serenity I was looking for on our vacation. It was my vacation as well and I was going to enjoy it:)
