Trip to Rocky Point, Mexico

So just a couple weeks after going to Flagstaff, we went the other direction...south...to the beach for a couple days. The Sea of Cortez comes up just south of Arizona (only about an hour into Mexico) at Rocky Point (or Puerto Penasco, as it's known in Mexico). We had a really easy three hour drive, and the border had no wait, either direction. It was definitely Mexico...but we stayed in a beautiful resort right on the beach. The sand was very nice (grainy but golden) and the water was warm....it was so nice to relax and just let the kids play on the beach.

The view from our balcony!
There was a nice restaurant that overlooked the ocean.

Enjoying really great fruit ice cream bars....and saying "no, gracias" to about 200 beach vendors!

The next morning the tide was waaaayyyy out, and there were great tide pools where the kids found lots of wonderful shells and hermit crabs! :) Abigail freaked out at first as she thought she had picked up an empty shell and out crawled a crab!!

We were there just before Abigail's birthday...so Hannah wrote this sweet message to her in the sand.

At the resort was an area with all these hammocks. The girls spent so much time in them...they had a blast swinging as high as possible!

And here we are again at night....

We went out to a couple tacquerias....there is nothing like them!!...even though they are on the side of the road and you sit in plastic chairs in an empty lot, we love them! The girls even ate the tacos and enjoyed them! They also loved the glass pop bottles. The girls and I wanted the tortillas by themselves, and I don't think anyone had ever asked for that, because the owner kept asking if I was sure that I didn't want anything in the tortilla...then he just gave us the warm tortillas for free...they were soooo good!

We went to a great restaurant for dinner that was up on this hill that over looked the town and the ocean, it was beautiful....in a Mexico kind of way

This is what is crazy about driving in Mexico (well... other than no one obeys the speed limit, or the lane divisions)...how do you tell which way to go in a glance....you have to sit and read through all the signs, in Spanish....crazy!!

We drove around town just to show the kids what people live like...they were really sombered, when we talked about that this is how most of the world lives, not like us! Abigail said, "I am soooooo thankful for our home and our car and everything we have!....I will never not be thankful again!" (we can hope, right???....but I think it was such a great reality check!!)

Before we left we went to a shopping/market area. Hannah got a tank top and Abigail, a sun dress...and they bought a few shells. We had a really fun time!