Cabo! (part 1)

We left on Memorial Day for our first trip back to Cabo since the hurricane. We had a great time and it was so nice to see our friends.

It's different there now. Lots of the hotels still haven't reopened, there are buildings that appear to have not been touched since the storm ripped through and the people are just a touch less happy. While we were there the threat of another hurricane was looming and people were nervous. Thankfully it weakened and didn't do any damage.

It didn't take us long to find our old routine....and as always it was HARD to come home. Gracie has decided she's ready to live there and Maggie still says she couldn't move their full time.....but she's considering part-time :)

Going back to Cuadra SanFrancisco was like walking back into a great friends house. They're a
truly wonderful family and we so enjoy our time there. Not having Shakira there was hard, but Maggie got the
chance to ride 4 horses while she was there and she loved them all. Two of the days we were there, Valente invited Maggie to come back in the evening for classes he was teaching, so somehow in 8 days she managed to have 10 lessons and a trail ride :) She's got it rough......she'd MUCH rather be at this hot dusty barn then on the beach.

Even on vacation Gracie spends hours hanging out 'in' a barn!

Somebody else stole Maggie's name for their golf cart.

Maggie spent about 20 minutes learning to get up on this surf board in the pool, then she told
me she thought she was ready to go take a lesson in the ocean the next day.......Um, probably not, maybe when she's
a teenager!

Some people told us about an awesome swimming teacher, so we hired him to come work
with the girls. What we didn't know was that he spoke NO English. I was sure it would
be a disaster with Gracie.....she proved me wrong. She loved him and spent 30 minutes every day giggling and
learning to swim with him. It was amazing to watch. Just the other day I told her she had swim lessons next week
here in Norfolk, she asked if Mr. Raul would be there to help her :)

She's trouble! One day she told us "if Lauren was here, we would sneak out at midnight
and drive the golf cart to the beach." That's funny when she's 4, somehow I think it will be less
funny when she's 14!