Mexico.

Ryan and I took our first vacation since we had been together!  We traveled to Mexico with his entire family to celebrate Mike and Holly's wedding. It was terribly hard to leave the kids and we felt really guilty leaving them out of the family get together but we had a good time.  It really was an "adult" trip so they wouldn't have had a lot to do and Ryan and I would not have been able to spend the quality time together.  

 And we were off!  Our first plane ride out of Fargo bright and early!

After we boarded our second plane in Chicago we were off to Mexico!

Even though it was not even 11 am we had our first celebratory Margarita's on the plane.  They were tasty and followed by a couple more!

The first day we arrived in Cancun the weather was not very nice.  It was raining and even chilly out in a bathing suit.  This was the view from our room which was gorgeous!

I was amazed by the great service at the resort.  Everyone was very friendly and eager to take care of your needs.  We spent a lot of time (when it was nice) outside playing in the ocean or laying by the pool.  The other time we spent at the bar in the resort or eating at one of the restaurants.

 The wedding was nice with an ocean view.  I couldn't believe how many people (complete strangers) lined up their beach chairs right next to the ceremony to watch.  There were even several people videoing on their cell phones!! I would never do that to people I didn't even know!  We had dinner outside followed by a dance.  After the dance we all headed to the beach for a concert that was going on.  It was a lot of fun.  This was the night I definitely had the most to drink.  Ha!  Ryan and Kristy and Arin impressed all the guys with their awesome dancing, it was great.  Ryan grabbed this little video mostly of his mom and dad dancing but there is glimpse of the whole family.  I had to include it because our kids loved the video and Kenzie really wanted to "go there and dance wif Papa!"

 So we ran into a few Vikings cheerleaders at the resort.  That made Ryan and Gary's entire trip!  It turned out they had a Vikings fan event going on at the resort and had a big screen with the game playing on the beach on Sunday.  The guys were so excited and even I'll admit that was a pretty cool coincidence, what are the chances?

 The last 2 days we were there were definitely the nicest weather wise. Why does that always happen?  So we soaked up some sun and played in the ocean a ton.  By day 4 Ryan and I were ready to get back to frigid ND to see our little munchkins.  Turns out that a "break" from your kids isn't all it's cracked up to be.  I guess we are weird.  We had a fun, warm vacation but we can't wait to take our kids somewhere for a family trip!