Los Mejores Amigos

Before leaving Yuma, we decided a trip to Mexico was a Must Do.  Our friends, the Barbosa family joined us.  We met at Chuck E Cheese for some lunch and playtime beforehand.

Abby and Suzy won enough tickets for the Best Friends necklace.

 If I had realized how easy it was to get into Mexico and how safe I would feel once there, we would have gone more often.  It is a bit scary because we parked our car and just walked into another country.  LITERALLY, no questions asked.  I didn't need any proof that my kids even belonged to me.  A short walk away from the US parking lot, were plenty of shopping opportunites, doctors offices and pharmacies.  It was pretty hot and dry (imagine that!) and we discovered a super yummy grapefruit or lime flavored water that promised to be "sin calorias".  I'm not sure if that's true or not, but if it is, the Coca Cola company needs to get the recipe and sell it over here!

The kids hanging out in the shade by a brightly colored wall

This was one of the big reasons I wanted to go to Mexico.
I wanted a talavera fruit bowl.  I found them on one of my favorite websites, La Fuente Imports,
but didn't want to pay the crazy prices they were asking on the website.  I found them at only one
store and it was easy to choose my favorite.  It has found a permanent spot on my counter in NC.

I do need to share with you the funniest story about our passing through the border checkpoint/customs on the way out.  This was our conversation:

BP agent:  What was your reason for visiting Mexico today?

Me: Just a little shopping

BP: do you have anything to declare?

Me: (as I wrack my brain trying to remember what the kids have in their packages and what is in my backpack)  2 guitars, a glass dragon, a few glass bird window catchers, 4 bottles of water (the yummy flavored kind), a t-shirt and a pot.

BP: What kind of pot?

Me: One you put fruit in.

BP: Oh, so a type of bowl?  Not something you would smoke?

Me: NO!!!  Just a dish for fruit!!!  (Geesh.  Could I be any more naive?!?  And what kind of dumb criminal would you have to be to DECLARE your illegal purchases when they aren't even searching bags???)