january 23rd - the gringos have arrived

Arrival in Mexico yesterday was pretty stress free and we got an opportunity to show off our white pasty bodies to the locals.  The resort, Azul Sensatori, is beautiful and Alex has put the "virgin" banana daquiris through the necessary quality assurance procedures.  Our suite came equipped with a family size jacuzzi tub, which we quickly turned into Gemma's cage.  It was an innovative way to keep her out of trouble and provide 10 minutes of sanity while in our "non child proof" room.

We had a great dinner last night, with an endless taco bar...so the plumbing was also sufficiently tested.  The kids spent the day at the beach and had a blast.  Alex built sandcastles with his buddy Drew and ran on the beach with Mommy, while Gemma took a cabana nap in her unusually large (and glamorous) hat.  We finished the day off in the pool, where Alex did some laps with Jackie and Gemma sipped Dos Equis out of Daddy's beer glass.  There were also about 30 ice cream cones from the free-for-all soft serve machine mixed in throughout the day.