Mexico Report 3

Kara wrote us about their Thursday adventures:

"The open air restaurant we were at last night had some cats there that would jump up and sit on the seats of the tables no one was at. Jake thought that was hilarious, he liked the tail poking out from under the tablecloth. He gave the cat a pat. I discouraged further attention as who knows how friendly the cat really is?! The place we ate had a playground in the courtyard in the middle of the dining area. The kids really liked that. It had taller ladders than American playgrounds-- a little heart pounding excitement? Grandpa Tim had some type of Spanish coffee. The servers put on quite the show for the kids with two metal pots and flaming liquor (a "rope" of it) back and forth between the cups...and then they set the whole cup on fire! (They'd coated it in sugar.) Jake was QUITE captivated. Bentley was concerned about Grandpa Tim drinking fire. Oh yes - I almost forgot the music. They came and stood behind Bentley and played a song (singing, guitar... there were 4 of them). Jake kept saying "This is NOT good! The kitty does NOT like this. I don't like this!!" Bentley kept repeating "Too loud! Too loud! We should NEVER do this again!" LOL They're charming."

But the fun wasn't over then. When they got back to their condo at 10PM, the room keys didn't work. Kara wrote: "We had to walk back to main building to get the keys reset. It didn't work; we had to walk back again. The maid tried. Her key didn't work. The security guy tried and his key didn't work. He disappeared. We had to walk back to main building to find out where he went. He tried again with a "special" device. It didn't work, apparently it had a crack. The resort only has two of them (???), so they start trying to track down the other one. Meanwhile we're trying to keep the kids quiet (it was HOT yesterday) because everyone was sleeping. Karen complained to management. They decide to give us new rooms (without ANY of our stuff) until the morning. We are in the new room for 20 minutes - trying to convince the kids they can sleep in their clothes and without their blankies and stories and teeth brushed when finally the phone rings and our room was open, at which point it was hard to get the kids to sleep because they were over tired."

So the Altmans are enjoying lots of adventures in Mexico. Be sure and check back Sunday or Monday by which time we should have a report on Jake and Bentley's first fishing experience--a six hour deep sea charter. Should be an interesting report.