Puerto Vallerta

In Puerto Vallerta we left the girls with Kris, Ali and Mema and went on an adventure! Thanks so much for letting us sneak away--you guys are the best!

We even had a bit of time to tour the city--beautiful old churches, cobblestone roads and lots of surprising stores like Blockbuster, Starbucks, Wal Mart and McDonalds.

First we hopped into a small boat and rode across the ocean about a half hour away to the jungle of trees and a small little town. To me, this was what I envision Mexico to really look like. People doing laundry in streams, living in tin roofed huts and wearing clothes from the 80's. Every local that we met greeted us with a huge smile! I'm not sure if it's the friendly culture, or if they see $$$ signs in our eyes as soon as Americans step off board!

Then we rode this Unimog army jeep thing way up the mountain. We held on for dear life and snuggled up to the other passengers crammed into this tank.

And then we each were assigned our own mule to take us the rest of the way up the 2 foot wide switchbacks to the top of the jungle canopy. Here is where the real adventure started for me. I've never riden a mule, but it was super fun! The mule knew the way and all I had to do was "blow it kisses to the air" and kick it's ribs. Mine was pretty slow, but I was okay with that! Tim kept telling me to sound meaner.


And THEN, we got to to this:

We rappelled down a couple waterfalls, free rappelled down a drop-off and went down about 10 other zip lines. Amazing! I will do this again in a heartbeat. It was so worth the money, and the memories. Tim was so cute. We even raced once down a double zip line and be beat me by a mile. They didn't allow us to bring our own cameras on this part of the trip because we literally got soaked ziplining into streams and pools of water...but they had their own "mama-razzi" there to catch lots of overpriced pics to buy at the end.

Doesn't he look excited? We both LOVED it! Adventure is our middle name.