I'm Back!!! Now I'm in Mexico!!!

Day 1 the travel period!
Nov. 7th

Today was one of the longest days! We were all up early, me, and the L Family. We ate breakfast and made sure all the kids had everything they needed, loaded the car and hit the road! Our month long vacation has begun! Well maybe not…after our hour drive to Portland from HR, we get to the airport to find that we have to pay for all 10 of our bags! Since there are 7 of us we have a lot of luggage! After 30 minutes of trying to minimize our stuff and 4 children crying we get checked in! We now have to brave the line at security, which takes us another half hour to make it to our flight. By the time we finish we have to run to our gate! That is tons of fun with a 2 year old and a 4 year old! When we finally run the entire length of the airport we are the last ones on! Ok so we made our first of two flights. It’s 2.5 hours and they have almost no food! We cleared our their snack selections and tried to keep the kids quiet! Ha! Easier said than done with a 2 year old! L mom and I have to move around 4 dimes to finally get ZZ settled..well actually I had to put Finding Nemo on my laptop to get him calm! God Bless movies! After we get to Phoenix we decide we are going to get to our next gate before we get some real food! So we begin our journey to the opposite side of the very large airport! Instead of all staying together we get split up because the kids HAVE to get chewing gum and MnM’s So I take ZZ to catch up with P (because for some he reason he doesn’t see that we have stopped) and head to our gate. When we finally get there we check-in and grab some food. Next flight begins, a very long 2 hours are to begin! We are on the smallest plane I have ever been on for a flight that long! I get to sit with ZZ (oh joy!) Luckily I have already learned my lesson and immediately put Nemo on and read my book. I hope he will nap but don’t hold my breath because he has had so much candy! (Can’t wait for tonight!) Once we get off our plane we must go through customs…not so easy with 4 kids and 3 adults! When we finally make it through we weave our way through to baggage claim.. This is where the fun really begins! We find out that there are no luggage carts and we must now carry our 9 large bags as well as backpacks! I love customs!!! NOT! We put our checked bags through the x-ray only to find out that we have to put our carry-on bags through. After we get them together and head towards the doors! Ha! I now hear KK crying that she can’t pull her bag anymore and is taking sooo long! Since we are in the middle of a walk way filled with people and I am carrying my big backpack as well as my carry-on backpack and purse I can’t help her! Great now we are about to have a full fledge tantrum on our hands! Awesome! Not to mention we have ZZ on a leash! Which he is very successfully trying to get out of!
We are hopeful that our rental car will be easy to find. No suck luck! L mom can’t remember what company we are with! We then have to sit in the “Welcome” hall and find which company we are with. Once we find the name we then have to find the desk! That took another 5 minutes! At this time I now have my bags as well as ZZ’s bag and KK’s bag! Fun! Once we get checked in with our car company we must head outside to get a van to get it. Hoping that it will be easy we head out…of it’s NOT! I have way too much stuff and everything goes tumbling everywhere! I now have lost the family because they didn’t see me! Luckily they are inview and I can catch up! When we find the van they jam us in and take us to the company to get the car. When we pul up it looks like a joke…like the driver is taking us to a place to just drop us off and leave only to be murdered! Luckily (the only luck we’ve had) he hasn’t! When we finally get the car packed and all the kids loaded we head towards our house! Yay, it’s only been 1.5 hours since we got off the plane and we still have a 30 minute drive (or so we think) to our house! 30 minutes turns into an hour because we can’t see the resort sign and are now lost! After asking for directions twice a security guard finally shows us where it is! We’re here!!! This place is AMAZING!!! And it’s dark! Once we finally get beds situated and a snack instead of dinner we are ready for bed! I am so exhausted I crawl into bed read for a few mintues and pass out!!! Once again THE LONGEST DAY!!!