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Hola amigos.

I am in Mexico. Specifically, I am in Mexico from December 17th through December 25th, 2009. Just so everyone knows I didn't vacate the country due to any kind of scandal or crime, and it was just as much of a shock to me as it is to everyone else.
What happened:

I have a difficult time saying no. Therefore, when a friend calls on December 16th asking if I would like to take the place of her other traveling companion who was unable to go due to unforeseen circumstances, my initial reaction is to say "yes" immediately. Throw in the fact that the person who asked is one of my mas bueno amigas and the destination is puerto valljarta, and I don't think anyone would have said "no".
When Tiffany asked and I said yes on the afternoon of December 16th that left approximately 4 hours to pack for Mexico, Seattle and New York (more on that in a second), get some pre-Mexico waxing done and tell mom I wouldn't actually really be home that night...it would be more like two weeks.

Somehow all of this was accomplished and we left Pullman around 7 30 p.m. on Wednesday night. Tiffany's mom, Linda, had been amazing and booked my ticket for Mexico earlier that afternoon along with making sure we had a place to stay for the first few nights. We rolled up to my house around 1:30 a.m., long enough for me to say hi to my mom and my dogs and then we hit the road again, getting to Tiffany's place around 2:30 a.m.
Our plane left at 8 the next morning, so there was no such thing as going to bed Wednesday night. Instead we napped for a little while and Tiffany's mom took two exhausted, stressed, snow-sick almost-graduates to the airport to catch our flights.

Five hours later, we were in Mexico.

We'll be here until Christmas Day, and then it's home for a few days to re-acclimate myself to snow and rain and cold, cold weather before I leave for New York on the 29th, getting back January 3rd. After that school starts on the 11th I think so I should be heading back to Pullman sometime around the 8th or 9th. So there it is. crazy christmas break 2009.