Cabo

Reporting from beautiful Cabo San Lucas, Mexico!

We flew in yesterday afternoon. It's warm and humid but we just learned today that it's usually dry most of the year, between 0 and 5% humidity, like home! The week Mom and Dad always come is right after monsoons so it's greener and about 65% humidity.

Today we went to the grocery store. It was very interesting... The whole store smells good because of the rack of spices near the back... All kinds of spices and powders, especially chilli and peppers. The baggers are little boys, there were three of them, maybe 8-12 years old. Two brothers bagged our groceries. The older one was very eager to help us out with our groceries and asked us, "Taxi? Taxi?" and ran to get one for us. He had a cute little crooked-tooth grin and kept checking on our cart to make sure everything was in place. He worked hard for his tip. I'm not sure but I believe the money they make they give to their parents and it helps their whole family.

Just a few pictures before we head out to lay by the pool!

This was taken on our way from the airport to the resort. Nobody here (or few people) wears their seatbelts and the white lines down the road are really more guidelines. Sometimes the road is one lane and you drive down the middle, sometimes its three and you pass all of the other cars. Sometimes people let you in, sometimes your taxi driver pushes his way in.
I took this picture at a stoplight... There are three adults in the backseat and 2 in the front. The little girl is sitting on the lap of one of the adults. I also saw a pick-up truck with 3 people sitting in the back and a pick-up truck with a driver and two people squished in the passenger seat.

The lobby: The walkway out to the pools and the beach: Lunch. Prices are listed in pesos. Move the digit over one place to the left and you have the gist of it in dollars. Still pretty pricey.

These guys are resort pets. They're in the pond. They have a baby, too, but he couldn't fit up onto the rock and kept swimming around it in circles.

The beach by our unit:You can't swim in the beach we are staying on- It's too rough and dangerous with rip tides. The waves don't crash on the shore, they BOOM. It's awesome to hear. sunset on the beach Adios!