I just got off the phone where I made reservations for our annual "before tax season begins" get away to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. For the past six years we have been taking a trip to a warm climate in January. The first year, we went to Orlando, Florida. We had never been to Disney World, Epcot, or anywhere in Florida, for that matter, so we decided that would probably be warmer than Utah in January... the first thing I bought at Epcot was a pair of gloves... I was freezing! After a week of trying to convince ourselves that this had been a nice trip, on the way home we had a layover in Houston, Texas and about every other person in the airport terminal was returning from Mexico -- tan and very happy and relaxed. That did it. The next year we went to Mexico and bought a timeshare and have been going there ever since!! Last year we had the most fantastic deep sea fishing experience! We had gone out once before the year we had taken our kids with us and that time we caught 3 dorada. It was super exciting. Besides catching these huge fish, we saw whales and dolphins and sea turtles... so cool. So this past January, we talked our friends into doing another fishing excursion. Paul and I were secretly hoping that we would catch at least one fish since we had really talked up how fun and successful our first trip had been. We ended up having a truly amazing outing. Each of us were able to reel in a big Dorada. That is me with my catch in the 2nd photo. A Dorada is in the tuna family... excellent to eat. We actually ended up with 5 Dorada. Just when we thought the day was over we hooked onto this Marlin. I tell you those things put up a fight! We picked Darrell to reel it in because the rest of us just weren't strong enough. He fought that guy for about 45 minutes. We hadn't planned on keeping it but by the time it got to the boat, it had the fishing line all tangled in it's gills and that did it in. We ended up giving each of our crew men a dorada and also the marlin. We kept the other 3 doradas and had them filleted at the marina. On our taxi ride back to the resort, we stopped at a little restaurant in town and left one of the fish and then came back that night and they served it to us for dinner. WOW... good eats!!! The rest we froze and brought back home with us. I'm very excited to have another trip to look forward to... it is always a fun adventure!!
PS -- the first photo is taken from our room... all the rooms have ocean (Sea of Cortez) views!
3 comments:
sounds fun... i'm totally jealous. i love cabo! i've only been once, but it was a dream. i love the idea of heading to a warmer climate during the cold. for several years our family has spent thanksgiving in hawaii. when i was in college i always looked forward to that much needed break from the snow. now, home in california,it's still so nice to get away there during that bleak time of year!
you won't have as much fun without us! just admit it.
I love looking forward to something too... Making the plans is a great part of the fun!!
Those pictures are beautiful...I need to share this one with Morris!! WINK WINK!!
Fondly B.
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