hola! i returned from mexico on monday, but haven't had a chance to blog until now. i had a lot of fun with the girls. a much-needed getaway and a great way para practicar mi espanol. here are goodies:
- dales pictures
- elaines pictures
- my pictures
- really lame videos of us being dumb: elaine as whale #1, elaine as whale #2, synchronized swimmers

... and here is a (much too long) synopsis of our trip:
friday: arrived in the afternoon. it was cloudy. we ate and wandered the area around the hotel. nothing much to see in the immediate neighborhood so we just came back and drank. got ready to go out, revisited the bar and for some reason, became VIPs. (all these people started requesting we all take pictures with them. haha.) went out to "el zoo" and were once again treated like VIPs. (haha) after we got bored, we wandered "el malecon" (the boardwalk), met some chicos, saw some drunk high school chicks pole dancing while all the muchachos watched excitedly. met another homie, cheech, who showed us some pole-dancing skills his former roommate (a female-stripper) had taught him. elaine has documentation of this.

saturday: woke up early to catch some sun. then we hit up the tequila tour in the small town of pitillal. learned about tequila (blanco, resposado and anejo) and tasted some too (from flavored agave liquor to $100 sipping tequilas to creme de tequila). good stuff. then we went shopping downtown for some goods. back to the hotel where we prepped for some more drinking and another night on the town. in the cab on the way, we were embarrassingly reciting our "espanol uno" lessons to the cab driver. "oh oh oh! i know my abcs!," says dale. then we all recite our espanol abcs. haha. we planned to hit up the club, "hilo" but when they attempted to charge us for admission, we just went back to "el zoo". got drunk, ran into cheech again. i threw up on the way home. mmm.

sunday: woke up nice and early for a bus ride to las palmas, where we went on a horseback riding adventure. from the drinking from the night before, a few girls on the bus weren't feeling too well. dale was one of them. (aww) went horseback riding for 90 minutes to this cascada (waterfall) where we cooled off for a bit. rode back. got back to the hotel, missed the bar cutoff so we just went straight to downtown. this time to club 69. slowly became VIPs again with the assistance of our waiter, the hot spanish Juan Pablo. ;) hahaha. met some homies from LA (ruben and erin) who tried to convince us to move to puerto vallarta. we settled by letting them pay for all our drinks that night. haha. got home nice and late, were hungry, ordered pizza.

monday: it was time for us to go home. after some last minute shopping and a last meal at an airport restaurant, we boarded our flight back to sfo.

trips with friends are always fun. definitely got to do it more often. thanks for the good time girls. october?