Mexico – Days 5-9

(This may be my longest post ever!) 🙂 On day 5, we went to church that morning and at the end of the service, this cute couple came to the front to renew their vows since it was their 25th wedding anniversary. 🙂 Of course, I whipped out my camera, stood up and started taking pics like any other normal weekend! Here's a vintage looking shot of the church…it was beautiful!

After church, we went downtown and took pics by the statues…. 

Then we went to Hard Rock Cafe where the wait staff staff started singing Happy Birthday to my adorable sister, Mary! Her b-day was in March so we were all thoroughly confused…until I realized it was because she was wearing a white sun dress – they thought she was there to celebrate her Quinceañera! LOL (Note to self – be careful what you wear in other countries! LOL) 

After lunch, my sisters and I went shopping and came across this adorable burrow.  

Then took a cab ride to this fateful Starbucks….I was so glad to see something familiar – you all know how much I LOVE Starbucks…. 

But this drink made me deathly ill later that night!!!! (Interesting spelling of my name too…LOL) I asked if the water and ice was purified and they said it was but I tend to think that the milk wasn't pasteurized or it was old or something, I don't know. Mary had an ice water that day and didn't get sick so I know it wasn't the water or ice! 

My favorite store from the WHOLE trip! This place had the cutest frames, magnets, cards and miscellaneous cute stuff! 

Domino's delivery vehicles in Mexico… 

John shot this sunset that night, while I was totally sick…:( 

Day 6….'nuff said….LOL (Actually more like days 5-9 but whatever) ;p

Day 7 I started to feel a little better and went out for a few hours. A few months ago, I found this adorable card in Border's I think (Fashion Mall) and I HAD to get it for John…it's so us! I gave it to him on vacation and he loved it so I had to photograph it. 🙂 

Then when I headed to the beach, I found this scary creature dead at our door….YUCK! 

John hanging out at the beach…. 

That night we went to dinner at the Italian restaurant at the resort…they had cool lighting outside… 

The view from dinner… 

Day 8 – For some reason, I thought to take a pic of what my luggage looked like before I zipped it…notice everything is neatly organized, folded, double ziplocked in baggies, etc. **For all of you who travel a lot, take pics of your souvenirs, breakables and your luggage, just in case. 😉 I was glad I did…

This is only PART of my family's luggage that was taken on this trip…can you believe how much stuff we all bring with us?! LOL 

At the airport, they have a kiosk where you can pick up your pics from various events/adventures you've experienced throughout the week. John had his pic taken with the sea lion at Los Caletas and it was so cute that I had to take a pic of the pic. 🙂 (And yes, that's an underwater camera in his other hand) 😉 

Loading the plane from the tarmac again… 

Glad to be back home… 

In Houston, they have these light up suitcases at baggage claim, it was cool! 

Then going from Houston to Indy, we saw this rainbow out of our window… 

And the most beautiful sunset ever! 

We got to Indy late that night and my luggage was still in Houston. They said they'd deliver it the next day though and that it would be on the next flight out…well, the next day, after many phone calls and tracking the suitcase, it finally went out 3 flights later and was delivered to us at 11 p.m. like this! :O 

The frame of the suitcase was crushed, it wouldn't zip, all of my breakables were broken or missing…about $600-$700 worth of stuff either damaged, missing, etc.  It was ran over by something, not kidding. Some of my clothes had tire tracks on them and we found random pieces of asphalt and rubber at the bottom of the suitcase! :O

So glad we put those fragile stickers on, I mean, can you imagine what it would've looked like without them?! (sarcasm here) LOL 

They should really print one up that says "Notice of Bag Destruction" ….that would be more appropriate. BTW, notice my bra hanging out? I wonder how many people got to see that!? LOL 😀 Oh well! 

Cracked artwork… 

Notice to all travelers out there – I found out that the airlines will replace your luggage but not all of the contents! They won't accept responsibility, even though they caused the damage and they won't even accept responsibility for theft of items in your suitcase! The airline rep told me they'd take depreciation into consideration when deciding how much to reimburse for the damage too…but what are they going to do? Depreciate a $100 bottle of Tiffany perfume?! LOL I went ahead and filed insurance claims but they claim on their forms that they don't cover artwork, ceramics, liquids, perfumes, etc, etc. so we'll see what happens…oh, and it takes up to 18 weeks to be reimbursed, just FYI. So for all of you out there who travel a lot, keep your souvenirs, expensive stuff, make-up and breakable stuff with you…only pack in your suitcase what you are ok with possibly losing and take pics of everything. I sent them dozens of pictures with the claim form, I'm sure they've never seen anything so extensive before! LOL 

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