40th Birthday Trip

A few years ago, my friend Joni (we've been friends since we were 7 years old) and I decided that when we turned 40 we needed to go on a girls trip somewhere. We ended up going to Mazatlan since Joni's mom owns a condo down there. It was my first time to Mexico. It was so relaxing and nice. The condo was right on the beach. Chris tried to invite himself a couple of times but got turned down, because this trip was only for girls. We went with Joni's mom and a friend that Joni works with.

This is a picture of the condo. It's the one in the middle. The resort to the left is the Holiday Inn. On the right is a nice resort called El Cid. We went down there one day and swam in their pool since it is more fancy than the pool at the condo we were in.

Instead of going to feed the ducks, we went and fed the turtles. We fed them tortillas. They must not be able to see too good though, because when you'd drop the tortilla in the water they couldn't see it too well. Alot of the times, the fish would swim up between all the turtles and snatch the tortilla away before the turtle had time to even figure out there was some food right by it's head. In this picture, Joni was holding the tortilla out of the water, and the turtle is actually coming out of the water to get it.

The transportation down there is a hoot. This is in the back of a little red truck. We were going to town to the market. The extra ladies in the truck with us are Joni's mom's friends that she has met down there. They all stay down there during the winter months.

And this little piggy didn't make it home from the market. So anyone up for pighead roast dinner? The market was full of all kinds of interesting things that you don't see back home.

The last night there, we went and ate at Senor Frogs. What a crazy place. I don't have any pictures of me there because I was out of memory space on my camera by then. When we first walked in and were waiting for a table, the waiters grabbed us and made us jump rope right there in the middle of the restaurant. They also made everyone in the restaurant get up and dance on their chairs to the YMCA. We also had to join the conga line that took us all through the restaurant and outside. The music is blaring loud and the waiters were all blowing whistles. We didn't get our dinner until 10 p.m. The second they sat us down, a guy comes up to us and makes us these crazy balloon hats, shoves them on our heads, and then proceeds to tell us that he needs a tip. It was funny. We had to pay for a goofy balloon hat that we didn't really want. If ever in Mexico, you need to go experience Senor Frogs at least once. It's the craziest restaurant I've ever been in. Nothing compares to it back at home.