So far, 2012 has been pretty cool. I’m thinking about migrating my carmeloricarde.com blog over to this one. I’ve been updating all the photos that I’ve downloaded and re-tagged into my new picasa account.
Last weekend we got to spend time with most of our family. My mom, uncle Dave and aunt Nervie were here and we cooked some Filipino food. Sinigang and Lumpia. Very tasty.
Yesterday for Christmas eve, my brother and soon to be sister-in-law come over and we ate and then did a video chat with mom and the rest of the family in Montreal.
For Jaime and I’s first Christmas together as a married couple did we ever spoil each other!
I got Jaime a Spa!
Jaime got us tickets to Paris!
Merry Christmas everybody, Merry Christmas!
My old friend and Marine brother came to Phoenix to visit his mom and invited my wife and I to visit with him at the American Legion. We haven’t seen each other since I got out of the Marine Corps in 1996.
Friday, about noon, we took off for the weekend. Our voyage would normally be drive up to Lake Powell, with boats and camping gear. Not this time, this year we drove south to Rocky Point, in Mexico. We stayed at the Sonoran Sea, which was quite nice. Nice and quiet. A little too quiet.
Once night time fell, on our first day, we were a little disappointed. We were on our Patio laughing while playing a drinking game and were told to keep it down. The whole place was about 25% occupied… Our neighbors upstairs were told to turn their music down. That kinda sucked.
My nightstand was stamped with “Made in America” on the inside in the drawer. How funny is that? hahaha
We also found out that the hot water heater was on a different circuit. When it was finally found on Sunday, Jaime and I found out that the hot water didn’t reach our bathroom. Boooo!!!!!!
Really though, for the price that we paid, six of us, for $100 each, for four days, that’s a nice luxury condo for $25 a day. You can’t beat that!
One day, Jaime just wanted to go into town and buy massive amounts of fresh fish and shrimp, we all jumped into the car and Rob drove us through town and started haggling and giving the vendors a hard time. We got a great deal and vendors even peeled, deveined and butterflied.
We ate like kings that night and weren’t too full! Later we went over to the Boobar, the bar that Camille and Jaime went to for Jaime’s bachelorette party. It was actually pleasant. I thought it would be a shit hole. I don’t know when it happened, but there is no smoking allowed in bars in Mexico. I think cigarettes cost even more down there too. How funny is that?
Jaime and I went to Las Vegas with little planning to watch Lynyrd Skynyrd poolside from the M Resort and Spa. Thanks to my mom. It was pretty awesome.
We spent the next day, stuffing my face at a buffet, then trying to score some tickets to see the Mr. Olympia. We went to the Orleans resort and asked for tickets, they cost $150 each. So needless to say, I didn’t want to pay that much to see some dudes in thongs.
On our way back, one of the shocks on the car got messed up and we had to stop in Boulder city and get it fixed. Those guys at Big O tires got us home for nothing. I recommend them!
P.S. Driving off into the sunset, not as cool as it sounds.
Jaime and I are going on several trips this month. Should be fun!
Holy cow, I can’t believe my son is 15!
He’s gotta start saving up so he can drive me around when he’s 16!
I finally installed the new dish washer over the weekend. Wasn’t all that hard to do. I’m pretty happy with it so far. I’m even happier I don’t have to do dishes by hand anymore!
When I did my change of address form, I got some coupons for 10% off at Sears. We did some searching and found some awesome deals and we bought 2 TVs. I feel that I’m finally in the current decade (somewhat). No more giant honking large tube televisions for me! woot woot!
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