Bronzed and back home

We are home from Mexico and wow, what a holiday!  I am not even sure where to begin.  It was an absolutely fantastic holiday.  So my company sent me and my guy away on the Achievement club, a reward vacation for high performers.  We went to Cabos San Lucas in Mexico and stayed at the Hilton resort on the beach.  What a place, so opulent, just beautiful and our room was to die for.  We had a sunken tub from which you could watch television, gorgeous beds and linens and amazing soaps and creams in the room that we stole every day.  We came home with a suitcase full of free product!  They really treated us well with banquets on the terraces overlooking the sea, and receptions by the infinity pools.  We spent time on the beach and body surfing in the waves.  We went into town and had a delicious meal at Morgan’s a great steak place where we sat in an open air courtyard with stars above and live music at our table.  We went on a breakfast cruise and saw the famous rock formations and arch, and got the chance to see sea lions playing in the water and a special surprise we followed a pod of humpback whales in the sea, laughing at the whale calf chasing its mother.  We had a great party on the beach to end the club with bbqs and buffets, bars, tequila bars, cigar rolling, live music and fireworks over the sea.  It was a great great time.

When we were done we went with two girlfriends over to the Barcelo resort to spend three more days before coming home.  It was equally beautiful and since it was half full we got upgraded to a suite with our own living room and flat screen tvs everywhere you looked.  We swam in the pools and on the beach, ate delicious Japanese food one night in one of the restaurants, went horse back riding on the beach and generally unwound and relaxed.  It was a great time.  We walked into town to a grocery store where I strolled the aisles, checking out the local specialties and came home with a bottle of orange vinegar which I have never tried and a couple of bottles of Rioja red wine.  We could not have asked for a better holiday, took way too many pictures, never enough siestas and both my guy and I unwound and relaxed and reconnected.  The house, the cookbook, the stresses of packing and renovations all receded and it was just us, on our own routine, choosing to do or do nothing whenever we wanted and all of it enjoyed with two great girlfriends for fun.  We have come home refreshed and ready to go.

And a good thing, since today, my guy is laying tiles in the front hallway of the house, we spent yesterday packing and traveling up to see my parents.  Easter dinner was cancelled since my father is still not up to it but they are back home after five days in the hospital.  I think it scared him some; he has never in his life been sick and certainly never in the hospital.  So we went up and had a good visit.  But now every evening is either packing or work at the house because we move next Thursday and the pressure is on to get it all done!  And I am still working on the website and press distribution list for the cookbook and I have to travel to Chicago for work next week for a couple of days.  Not sure we will be sleeping much; good thing we had all that beach time!!!  Glad to be back!