Part Eight: Back to the USA
Hello, faithful readers! I am finally wrapping up our Mexico trip...which ended a week and a half ago! Feels like ages ago, now. Yep, time to wrap this up.
Did you miss the first Mexico posts? Here are the links:
After Adam and Jenna's wedding, we went and crashed in our house for awhile. We rested and also started packing up to leave the next day. But that evening, we had one last meal in the cafeteria with everyone on campus (minus Adam and Jenna, of course! They were on their way to Sedona, AZ).
Our kids loved playing one last time with their cousins and the other kids. I just LOVE this picture of Mili! Her attitude in this picture is so funny!
We noticed the sky was getting dark...a storm was coming.
And "storm" is an understatement. It started raining HARD. And the wind was incredible...wow. During the storm, I was seriously thinking this must be a hurricane! And Nathan even started telling me where we should go if the roof was torn off of the building that we were under.
This isn't the greatest picture, but tons of people had to grab brooms and they were constantly sweeping the water out of the building. It was blowing into there like crazy.
Daisy was really scared. And see that little building in the background? As we were sitting there, we watched the storm start to tear the metal roofing off of that building. A little scary!
But the storm started letting up, and the kids had a blast playing in this "pool" that had been created!
The campus was flooded! (and without power for quite a few hours).
And then...the next day it was time to head back to the good old USA!
It was really fun traveling to the airport with all of these people! Here, we are hanging out after eating lunch.
And we got on the plane. We were scheduled to fly out of Tucson to Denver (with a very short layover). Then it would be from Denver to Indy.
Ready to go! And then...the pilot made an announcement. The bathroom was leaking. Which doesn't really sound like a big deal, but the electrical stuff was right underneath, so it would need to be fixed before we flew out.
Which meant...we would be sitting on the airplane for a good 50 more minutes.
Which meant...we would not be able to make our connecting flight in Denver.
Which meant...we had to get off the airplane and stay the night in Tucson (without our luggage!)
This is what Daisy thought about getting back off the airplane :)
But it wasn't all bad! Southwest Airline put us up in a nice hotel for the night, which my kids thought was just great! (One huge bummer though...since our luggage had all been checked, we didn't have ANYTHING! No extra clothes, swimsuits, etc. And the hotel had a really nice pool, so that was hard for our kids!)
Here they are, being silly in the lobby. (A bit tired, too!)
I needed some contact solution, which the hotel didn't have. So these guys from the hotel drove Nathan and me to Walgreens! It was kind of fun to have them chauffeur us around Tucson :)
We ordered pizza and ate it out by the pool...
The next morning was relaxed...our kids watched some Kid Snippets with Grandpa Dave...
We had a moment of panic when we couldn't find Nathan's wallet anywhere. We searched everywhere...and finally we asked all of our kids if anyone had seen it. Layla said "yep!" And went straight to the ice bucket and took off the lid. Ha! Glad we asked her!
Back to the airport...Let's try this one more time!
Notice we all had the same clothes as the day before :)
It was my birthday, by the way! Not the way I had expected to spend my birthday, but a fun day nonetheless :)
The boys sat together...here they are doing their "manly fistbump" :)
I LOVE how Halle still plays with her baby. So sweet :)
We flew to Las Vegas and hung out there for a few hours until our next flight. Our kids thought this tram was the coolest thing ever!
And the moving sidewalks, too...
Nathan bought me a birthday coffee drink. I had a really fun birthday, despite traveling the whole day!
We didn't arrive home until close to 1:00 am (Indiana time)! I feel like it took our kids a lot of days to adjust from the time difference and all of that. It is soooo good to be home.
Excited for our next Mexico trip! Lord willing, next spring we will visit CVE one last time before we go overseas. Adam, Jenna, Mari, Fe, Perla, Leo and Mili...we love you all and we will miss you!
2 comments:
Great review of the wedding week, Rache! I've loved following along (even though i experienced it with you!). We have some great memories.
mom m
Wonderful pictures, I feel like I went to the wedding. Thanks so much!! Love GGMA
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