Summer is here (!!) and I better get our Spring Break trip to Cabo on the blog, before I’m buried under a backlog of sunny PNW pics.
Jack and La Verne generously asked if our family would like to join them at their Cabo timeshare for a few days in April and while Shane wondered for a hot second if we should go to rural Texas instead to catch the solar eclipse from the Path of Totality, the pull of friend time and pool time and taco time was just too great. We were IN. It was an easy flight – the kids simul-streamed Harry Potter, snacks were eaten, no one got sick…we were off to a good start.
We were greeted by our lovely hosts when we rolled up on Sunday afternoon and had ditched our travel clothes for swimsuits before you could even say “Margarita”.
Or…”Mango Smoothie”.
Living their best lives, right out of the gate.
This pool. Perfect temp, perfect views, perfect swim-up bar.
We’d had a tough March and while grief can’t necessarily be tucked in a closet and left at home, there was certainly relief in having time to focus on just being together.
My desert palette girl…
Monday! Guess who was up first?
I’ve come to love our quiet vacation mornings together, where we rustle up some coffee and feel the sun warm our cheeks. Isaac and I put our feet in the pool and had a snack and eased so wonderfully into vacation-mode.
I think his little red Lighting McQueen covered just about every square inch of the resort’s sprawling property during our five days there.
Big kids are up! Pool time!
Occasionally the N and J would ask, “What should we do now?” and we’d come up with a race or a challenge or an underwater game and off they swam again. Happy fishes.
The solar eclipse happened later that morning and while this photo looks totally staged, the wonder is real!
Back to business.
When we needed a sun-break, we hung out on our private patio.
What a treat to have so much time to catch up. Long conversations with old friends are too infrequent these days.
We spent a little time at the beach before dinner and while the silky sand and turquoise water was a feast for the eyes, the warmer pool temps ultimately won out.
Taco time! We had dinner a nearby mercado and tucked into enchiladas and tacos and kid-sized burritos. Isaac dug it.
Buddy and I spent Tuesday morning sipping coffee on our favorite patio and then playing on the beach.
He’s such a sweet little pal sometimes.
Shane and I took turns working out at the gym and then we all convened at the pool for another day of luxe lounging.
We drove into San Jose del Cabo for lunch. Poor Juliette had come down with a brief stomach bug in the night and was a little low-energy that afternoon, but still felt good enough to peruse the shops and galleries with me.
Lunch was…TACOS at La Lupita. Like, a lot of tacos. Big tacos. Shane may have set a new PR on amount of food consumed in a single sitting.
A different kind of pool time after lunch…
But then back to the real pool.
We ate dinner that night at one of the resort’s on-site restaurants and I saw the color come back to Juliette’s cheeks as we were waiting for our food. She devoured her meal and laughed a lot and I felt so grateful to see her fully back in action, able to revel in the magic of it all.
Even our guacamole felt extra-special!
Eat up, Isaac. We’ve got more swimming to do…
We cozied up back at the apartment after dinner and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with the big kids. I’m bottling up the memory of the way they laughed when Jennifer Grey’s character kicked the principal in the face. It’s the little things. And the big things. All the Cabo things.