Babymoon in Mexico!

We just returned for our much anticipated Babymoon to Mexico :) It was awesome!!! We left Austin on Thursday morning with Caroline in tow. First stop, Dallas. We had a 2 hour layover, which was plenty of time to do the airport hand off to my mom and Alan. This was Caroline's first time to fly! She was a rockstar. Even though it was her naptime, she was happy and made lots of friends on our flight :) I will say, however, that flying with a little one is A LOT of work...whew!

Anyway, the hand off was successful (no tears from Caroline or Mommy) and we were happy to be on our way to Mexico!!

When we arrived at the Cancun airport, there was a guy standing there with a sign that said "Erickson." Jon and I thought this was pretty cool. We felt very important :) Off we went to Play del Carmen!

At the hotel, we were greeted with a "Welcome Cocktail" which I loved. What a better way to start vacation???

Here I am enjoying my welcome cocktail while enjoying the view from our room.

We had a view of the beach on one side of the room, and view of the pool on the other. Fantastic!

The first night was "Fiesta Night" Jon enjoyed the tequila bar...They had all these weird, random flavors of tequila...We read on the beach, played in the pool, and RELAXED a lot. Oh and did I mention that we had a blast? We LAUGHED a lot, too :)

We never left the resort, except for when Jon had to go to Walmart to buy pants. The restaurant dress code requires pants for men...Jon insisted on packing nothing more than swimsuits and t-shirts of course ;) He did return with these awesome Play del Carmen hats from Walmart, though...

There I am swimming in the ocean....see me waving? There were lots of Europeans at our resort...which meant lots of topless ladies and LOTS of speedo-clad men. Of course, that made for lots of great people-watching for Jon and I :)

Jon played sand volleyball (and scraped his knee), pool volleyball (and hurt his foot), and participated in the "Ideal Man" Contest in the pool (and hurt his other knee). Here is waiting with the other Ideal Men...

The contest entailed blowing up a balloon with a snorkel, swimming to the end of the pool, chugging a beer, swimming back, "rescuing" a girl with the lifesaver, doing 10 squats, running the length of the pool with a volleyball between his legs, and then screaming like Tarzan. Seriously. The one with the fastest time wins. Jon finished in 2nd place with a time of 1 min. 8 sec. Quite impressive, I was so proud :)

Enjoying dinner the last night.

Thank you to my sweet hubby for making it such a wonderful vacation! Thank you for fetching me food and drinks, for making me laugh, for charming your way into getting us VIP status, for being such a kick-butt bocce ball partner, for hauling all our luggage around, for making friends with random and entertaining foreigners, for constantly slathering me with SPF 50 sunscreen, and most of all for being the only person I can imagine spending my life with! You da' bomb!!!

Last night, despite delays, extensive security searches, and literally RUNNING to the gate for our connecting flight, we swooped up Caroline and made it safe and sound back to Austin with all of our belongings...As fun as vacation is, it also feels great to be home :)

And of course, many thanks to Mimi, Papa Al, GGma, GGpa, and Uncle Paul for watching Caroline for us :)
More to come on "Camp Caroline" soon ;)