Curious Bird: home sweet home

We're back from an amazing holiday trip to Mexico. It was a great time filled with lots of warmth, excellent meals and daily adventures. We hope to go back down there sometime soon because there is tons more exploring we want to do. As you can imagine, since we've returned, I've been feeling kind of nutty and having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. Going away for Christmas to someplace warm and then returning to cold, wintry Philly (on a red-eye flight. ouch) has been a bit of an adjustment. We can feel everything slowly ebbing it's way back to normal around here. I'm not sure I'm quite ready for it, though.

Some highlights of our trip include:

Long, tasty meals. I never quite realized how good a spritz of lime can make everything.
Beach Hair
People-watching
Sunsets
Snorkeling trips (it's a beautiful world under there)
Playing about 100 hands of gin rummy
Meeting fellow travelers. For some reason, we always meet people from Oregon and since we used to live in Portland, we usually have lots in common.
Renting a scooter to explore an island a little more
Margaritas with lots of salt around the rim
Dustin speaking Spanish for both of us
Drawing on the beach
Evening naps before dinner
Seeing Bjork while in a little fishing village. She was buying trinkets in a shop I wandered into.

{more photos here.}

Taking it easy this week.
Be back soon.

l.