In late February, our family took a big vacation to Mexico. Although I was skeptical it would go off without a hitch (I mean, this is intensive travel with a 3 year old and a 1 year old I am talking about - meltdowns on planes, missing naps, strange food, sunburns, strange places to sleep, crazy schedules), it actually did. We had a wonderful, incredible vacation. In fact today, Ellie and I were reading a book about going places, and it ended with the question of "Where do you want to go?" Ellie replied - "Back to vacation". I agree! Here are (a ton of) pictures!
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| Arriving in Mexico - don't look so bad for being up since 3:30 am |
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| Changed quickly and hit the pool. This was Ellie's first two piece. In the bathroom she said to me "Mom, I can see my belly button?" |
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| Waving hi to Dad - this was the Kids Aqua Park - water slides everywhere |
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| Ellie after her first trip down the slide. |
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| Going up the stairs to the water slides |
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| They even had little ones for Tommy |
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| Next stop on Day 1 - the beach |
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| Lots of digging |
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| Tom and Dad in the water |
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| Our beach comber |
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| Doesn't quite know what to think of the water coming in on him |
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| So he threw sand instead |
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| Our resort had a "Snack Bar' with food and drinks available at all times, and swings to sit on. |
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| Day two - back at the Aqua Park |
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| The water was about a foot and a half deep, so even Tommy could wade around. |
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| Hitting the slides |
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| Having a ton of fun! |
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| Happiest guy around |
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| From the top of the slide |
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| Hi-Fiving Dad and Tom on the way down. |
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| Our favorite activity - every night they had a Family Movie shown outside on a huge screen, complete with popcorn. |
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| Without toys, we had to get creative. My makeup bag held all sorts of wonders for them. |
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| Kid size chess |
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| They loved this! |
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| The "big kid" pool. |
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| My favorite pic of the trip. Two buddies. |
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| "Dad, let me get your sunglasses for you" |
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| "Here, maybe I should just wear them" |
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| My and my pool buddies. |
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| Dad and his girl on the swings. |
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| Love a guy in argyle. |
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| Getting after it in the ball pit at the kids club |
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| Huge amenity for us? Jacuzzi outside on our balcony. Kids loved getting clean at night. |
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| Another family movie - Tom dominating the bag of popcorn. |
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| This was the only time that pale tummy saw sun, but I needed at least one belly pic |
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| Ellie and Dad went on a kayak, she was pumped! |
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| Heading out to sea |
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| A man, his pail and his shovel - that's all he needs. Actually he didn't really like the sand, but I snapped some pics anyway. |
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| Love these two, got a good pic before we headed out to dinner |
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| Mikey magically rigged a family pic by putting the camera on another beach chair. |
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| What more does a girl need at dinner besides an iPad and a shirley temple in a champagne glass. |
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| Dad and Tom at the water slides |
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| And on top of the rocks |
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| She loved the aqua park |
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| She was being a sweet girl this day, so I need this pic to remember it. |
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| This was Ellie's favorite part of the trip, waiting in line to get her face painted. Can't tell she is excited can you? |
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| Holding still |
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| So proud. |
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| While we waited for her, Tom and I took a pic by ourselves. Love him. |
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| Tom and Dad at our last dinner. |
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| Again, Ellie won't pose with me. |
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| Family picture - Ellie looks thrilled (and kind of scary). |
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| That night they had a pinata party for all the kids - here is Ellie stepping up to swing. |
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| She got in some good licks. |
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| This was at 8 pm - probably can't tell that Tommy is tired while waiting for Ellie to get done. |
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| It broke - the race is on to find candy. |
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| Mikey helped Ellie get candy and not get trampled. |
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All in all, we had an amazing family trip and will remember it forever.
