so.. i've been slacking with the updates. not sure why either.. i dont do much! well, mexico was a blast.. a ton of waiting around in airports.. flights getting cancelled and milwaukee airports closing being an excuse as to why we couldnt leave. our first flight was cancelled because of the weather.. but really- they were missing a part to some door on the airplane and needed that off another airplane who couldnt land in milwaukee so instead, waited around in green bay. i dont know what good that does... coulda used a road to get the part from there.. you know- like, here, i'll call some people i know in green bay and meet them half way and bring you your door handle..? apparently not. then when we should have left mexico after our vacation.. couldnt land in milwaukee because of the fog. hello??? it is a day before christmas eve.. and i know a ton of people who traveled to milwaukee that very day by plane. they landed in chicago.. got put on a bus, and wah-lah.. nope- too complicated for the retards over at ryan international. well, all in all.. the trip was awesome! i had a great time haning out on the beach everyday with dan and my family. could have done without the bad management and bad food that made three of the seven of us ill. (yeah.. i had food poisoning and slept in the puerto vallarta airport. great fun.) our apple vacation representatives could have made everyone happy.. like a free hotel stay that night and free shuttle to it because we lost out on 2 days of our vacations through delays and the airline all of a sudden deciding to leave 8 hours earlier than what we planned and payed for. we could have stayed on the beach and left at 4 PM for our 5:30 original departure from mexico.. but they decide we needed to leave at 8 AM for our 9:30 flight.. which turned into 10:30 at the front desk, then randomly changed to 12:30.. our flight wasn't even listed on any of the screens in the concourse. no one had any clue which gate we were boarding from. the desk told us "A".. then we go into that.. and all of a sudden the gates are numbered "A-1" to "A-18" gracias, senor a-hole. someone had to go and find an english speaking worker to have it all figured out. we did get in line to board at, get this- 5 (which you know.. 5:30 ended up being the actual time our plane was leaving. coulda stayed on the beach. should have stayed on the beach. wish we stayed on the beach.) so we're acutally outisde in the fresh air.. ready to walk to the plane. oh no wait.. milwaukee airport is closed. go sit back down. we'll keep you updated. not one thing is announced over the loudspeaker. we go to the gate we were boarding at.. but the people working dont speak any english. i am still wondering how they can allow that in international travel? i mean, every person in the whole "Gate A" was english speaking. we finally do get an announcement and get back in line to board at 8.. we're all cheering, ready for our vacation to puerto hellarta to be over with. wait.. sit down again. we need to figure out if we can actually leave yet or not... turns out we couldnt. go pay $100 per person for hotel and $50 for cab ride there, or sleep in the airport. yay. thanks apple. never book a vacation through apple. they suck. but anyways.. like i said- we had a great time. we boogey boarded almost everyday. laughed as mom and dad tried it out... or just laughed everytime someone wiped out. haha. jorie had a crush on the boogie board guy. he had a curly fro type hair cut, with three rat tail dreads that were down to the middle of his back. eeeew. we went to punta de mita one day and ate lobster and shrimp on the beach. shopped a little.. from our dining table. they came to us! we didnt have to do anything but sit. we also went into the acual town of puerto vallarta. it started out fun. i liked the bus ride (though i thought i might die the way they drive.. and you thought i was fast? nah...) i liked seeing all the culture.. and yeah.. its the same as i saw in mexico city and in the yucatan. mexico is dirty. we ate lunch on the boardwalk. i had a whole red snapper.. face and all. though i didnt eat the face. eew. we walked around and looked at the shops. over rated. who wants to go visit another country to find.. oh- carlos junior and mcdonalds and hard rock cafe. i can do that here. dan and i got pick-pocketed somewhere on the walk. didnt even notice it. i was gripping my bag for dear life, so i knew nothing would be taken from me. but they reached INTO his pocket and pulled out the wallet. we lost our IDs, some random member cards to Qdoba and American Eagle and all that, 30 dollars in american cash, and our credit card. we got back to the hotel and called to cancel it, 2 and a half hours later. but thankfully- we had no charges on it. they had little shows they put on every night.. they were interesting. spoke screaming spanish so fast into the microphone.. i dont know if the mexicans in the audience understood a thing. i liked the buffet they had.. until the 3rd day. it got old. fast. i got sick off something.. not sure what it was. it didnt hit until the night we were waiting in the airport, it came out 3 times. so it must have been something i ate at breakfast... or dinner if foor poisoning goes back that fast. shea got sick also. she spent the last day of our vacation sleeping in the shade on the beach, and then in the hotel room past dark. there were beautiful sunsets. i really wish i would have woken up to see a sunrise. the pictures my sisters and mom took are amazing.. but i am not a morning person. at all. they saw whales just off the shore one morning.. but then we chartered a boat and we saw about 8, got pretty close to some too. so all was not lost. that day fishing was fun. we caught 63 mackeral.. and my mom caught a needle fish.. the first fish to be caught- and the only to be thrown back. haha. they made us wear wristbands showing that jorie was under 18 and couldnt drink, and black for me, dan, shea, and sam to show we were in the royal suites... so we had to sneak jorie in to stay in our room a couple of nights. we also had to sneak alcohol to jorie.. which wasnt hard. i dont think anyone cared. we all stayed out one night and took many many tequila shots. turns out.. jorie can hold her liquor better than shea. shea went back to her room and threw up.. and jorie, dan, and i went back to our room, ordered room service.. and fell asleep. haha.. i mean, called the order in and fell asleep immediately afterward. dan woke up to the knocking on the door... let him in, while he set up everything.. and jorie and i slept. dan ate a nacho and triend to eat a slice of pizza.. but went back to sleep. haha. we woke up forgetting all about it. my drink of choice was a mix of vodka, amaretto, pineapple and orange juice called the run runner.. or correcamino. but then i saw it later called the road runner.. so i just ordered it in spanish. that worked. i didnt speak much spanish. should have.. i've forgotten so much already, though. we've been back for three weeks, and i have no color or freckles left. i wore spf 4 for two days.. and nothing for the rest... barely burned.. barely got any color at all actually. whatever it was, its gone now. i'm pale like casper. i know its winter and all.. and its wisconsin.. but it does not look healthy to be pale. unless you're nicole kidman. she looks alright, kind of like an alien, but she pulls off the see through color thing. oh gee.. this is a long letter... i'll quit. i'll have to post again about christmas and new years soon... hopefully! i keep slacking!
