Vacation Time!

Tonight is Halloween, or Dia del Muerta in Mexico. Parties everywhere. We dressed up as American tourists. And I must say, we are really convincing! Sandy says, Dad is the drunken tourist and she is the normal one. The iPad really sucks at night time pictures, but here we are in costume after dinner. That huge black blob behind us is the Pacific ocean. Not quite as good as Capt Morgan (dad) or Capts Cove (mom), but close. Full update in the morning. Off to watch American Futbol. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: Camino Viejo a San Jose,Cabo,Mexico

Unlike flat Cancun, Cabo is more like the Virgin Islands or Hawaii. Lots of mountains. Also, here in Cabo, not every square inch of land has been developed. Once you pass either end of our hotel's three buildings, there's nothing for a mile either way. The beach here is really steep. Kinda Camp Cullom Hill-ish, but not that long. Really tough to stay in your beach chair without first leveling the sand. This is the beach, facing SE. The flee marketers line the rope boundaries, but leave you alone if you say no thanks. Looking SW towards arch with vendor on beach - with vendor in foreground. The waves are not surfable. But they roll in quite well. "That's a good one" is not sufficient warning according to Sandy. That particular wave went above the panty line. She had wet underwear for the remainder of the evening. Like Kathy did for Nick, I played a small violin for her. Not sure she heard it through all my laughter. Planning a glass bottom boat tour of the arch lat

For those who no habla - that means "it's expensive." More so than Cancun anyway. Breakfast this morning was $60 US. Day one is in the books. We spent the majority of it by the pool soaking up rays. We hit the showers and then the sports bar to watch football. Tv in the room does not get any football. We did notice that we could see the players' breath during the Pittsburg game. Headed to the El Buccaneer for dinner, but they don't open til 6. Took a taxi downtown to Sammy Haggar's Cabo Wabo cantina. Disappointing. Small. No food per se. Snacked and bought a few gifts, but only for our Favorite child. I'll give you three guesses who got 2 mosquito bites while we sat at Cabo Wabo and the first two don't count. The time change occurred last night here. So we're pretty sure we are 3 hours behind Indy - who changes next weekend (first Sunday in Nov). So the sun set here at 5:40 behind the mountains. Will not be getting sunset pics at all. But, not a c

After 14-18 hours of much needed sleep, we are officially on vacation. We're not quite sure if it's 8 or 9 am, but that doesn't matter. Hit the beach to check out the water. Saw only 4 other people out this morning. Have our pick of where we'll be sitting for the next 12 hours. Sure gets warm fast. Where is Pedro with my cervesa? Missing you! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: Camino Viejo a San Jose,Cabo,Mexico

On 2 hours sleep, we hit IND airport at 4 am. Checked in to an oversold flight. Seats not together. I watched Captain America while Sandy read. First pilot stopped like Nick, according to Sandy. 2 hour lay-over in PHX allowed us to eat some breakfast. Had a row in the back to ourselves to Cabo. Cabo International Airport is small and quaint. Reminded us of Cancun on our first trip there in '94. Got of plane directly on Tarmac. Walked to a private immigration and baggage carousel. Thru customs with a green light in under an hour. Even with our bags being the very last two off. Got on a bus with seats too small for Sandy, so you know I was miserable. Took 1.5 hours to drive to hotel on roads that make our lane look like a super highway. Ate at a small restaurant here at the hotel. Crashed. Not sure about the time. Phoenix was 3 hours behind, but we think Cabo is only 2 hours behind Indiana. In the end, we lost most of Saturday getting here, but we're here! Need to send a shout ou

Keep getting kicked off wifi. Not sure if it's a BlogPress issue, wifi issue or iPad issue. Fourth attempt to update blog. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: Cabo San Lucas

Say "Hello" to hurricane Rina.  She's making a mess of our plans to Cancun.  In fact, the weather forecast for Cancun is calling for Thunderstorms for the next 8 days! No worries!  That's what trip insurance is for, eh?  Got our room fees applied to our trip next year.  Filed a claim with the airlines (Frontier has not "officially" canceled yet, but are advising AGAINST travelling to Cancun). So now, we're heading for Cabo San Lucas!  Never been there before.  A bit longer flight, which is sure to impress mama (shhh!  Don't tell).  Not sure how expensive it will be, but at this point I don't reckon it matters that much.  We're outta here.  Nick's got the helm.  Planning on painting Kathy's old room and turning it into a Game Center whilst the parental units are away.  I still plan on taking my iPad and updating this blog while I'm away.  I'll see if I can't change the name to Cabo vs Cancun.  In the end, I'll st

Ok, so obviously the time is way off. Guess I have not picked the proper location. Must have me on the West Coast somewhere. Will fix that. And will also tell you to read Post #2 before reading Post #3. More from Cancun. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: W State Road 38,Mulberry,United States

So now I've loaded BlogPress ($2.99 at the App Store) to my iPad. This is a blog from within THAT application. Be sure you've read the previous blog post because I'm about to give you the Spoiler to the quiz. Stop here if you haven't read it and come back. Spoiler alert! It's Re-Phil! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: W State Road 38,Mulberry,United States

So two posts in one day? That won't continue to be the norm. However, this one was created on my iPad wirelessly. As a photo test, I want you all to comment on who this could possibly be? Let's see: He's a hunter, as you can tell by his clothes. He drinks beer; obviously has a drinking problem! But he's wearin WHITE wrestling shoes! While I applaud the effort to stay quiet when bow hunting, there must not have been any shoes in Hunter's Orange . Hint: since you can't tell from the photo, I'll let you know that he's wearing vanilla cover scent! Any guesses? Wow.  FAIL!  Can't upload pictures from the iPad.  Had to revert to computer. Also could not change font colors. Maybe this is not the way to go.  Checking in to other software for iPad. Craig

Family and Friends, My iPad will be in tow when we hit Cancun in a week or so.  My plan is to sit down each evening and create a simple blog post to update everyone.  My hope is that I can post pictures and videos here instead of filling your INBOX with all those mega-bytes of data. We'll still probably call and "check-in" with some of you all.  But if the rest of you wish to live vicariously through this blog for a week, feel free. Will do a test update with my iPad to ensure it's viable and not too cumbersome. T-minus ten days and counting..... Craig