Viva Mexico!

Jake and I got to go to Mexico last week for a few days.  Just us, no kids.  It was heavenly.  We went to Puerto Vallarta and we loved it.  Its a beautiful city with beautiful beaches.  We got to relax on the beach and do some fun boogie boarding.  The waves were perfect for that!  I got eaten up and spit out by the ocean a few times:)

We went into the city one day.  It has a pretty walkway right along the beach that was fun.  We stopped and ate at the smallest random food place ever.  Our table was literally on the beach.  Beautiful.  And even better when we got to eat the best mexican food ever.  For reals.  The guac was beyond good and the shrimp on my tacos was fresh from the ocean.  If only I could eat there every day!  We took the bus into the city for an adventure.  Figured I might as well use my spanish.  Getting back to the resort was awesome.  The first bus we got on was a typical mexican (or El Salvador cuz they're the same there) bus.  Totally falling apart.  The second you pay the bus driver slams on the gas, and I mean they floor it.  You're careening around corners at top speed in a big bus that's super loud because all the metal on it is banging as you bounce on the cobblestone roads.  Then when they stop they slam on the brakes as well.  Jake had never experienced anything like it.  It makes me so happy that he got to enjoy this:)

We got to do a really fun adventure tour one day.  We went across the bay in a big raft thing to this little pueblo built right up on the mountains.  Puerto Vallarta has huge mountains that go right up from the beach.  Really beautiful.  Then we got in the back of a truck and bounced up some dirt roads.  Then we rode on mules to get to the first zip line.  The zip lines were awesome and it was super beautiful.  We also got to rappel down a waterfall.  There were a couple of waterslides, and lets just say they definitely don't have the same standards of safety that we have here.  Which makes it more fun of course.  One waterslide we hit the water so hard I thought we were going to fly out.  The other slide they had you wear hockey helmets because your head hits the side of the slide so bad.  Hilarious.  The last zip line we went on they kind of asked us and kind of just did it - they strapped us in, told us to kick our legs up to our head, and the next thing we knew we were flying down the line hanging upside down, going backwards.  Jake didn't know what hit him.  It was awesome!!  We have no pictures of this experience because they wouldn't let us take our cameras.  Then they tried to sell us pictures for lots of money.  In true spjute fashion we declined.

All in all a great trip.  Grateful to everyone who helped with our kids so we could go.  So good to get time away with Jake!!

In front of the beach where we spent most of our time

Beautiful sunset

Beautiful Man:)

We had to run on the beach of course

Our view while relaxing at the resort

Jake in downtown Puerto Vallarta

Cool thing made out of sand

They had really weird statues

How beautiful is that?!!

Best guac ever.  Notice the sand we're sitting on and the ocean in the background

Best lemonade ever

Jake experiencing the bus

Mexico night at the resort.  There was an awesome mariachi band!

Sunset at the resort

Heading to our zip line adventure

Beautiful pueblo

The truck we rode up in