Puerto Vallarta

Last week we got to spend some time in Puerto Vallarta Mexico for an early celebration of our 5 year wedding anniversary. We were so lucky Rich's folks were able to watch our sweet little dudes while we were away, but we still brought our laptop so we could web cam with them while we were gone. We had an AMAZING time sleeping a ton, eating a ton, playing in the ocean and relaxing. But we are thrilled to be back home, although it was a little bit of a shock to our systems crawling into our cold bed last night (it was in the 40s out) after having a wonderful breakfast on the beach that morning.... It was heaven though, we hope to go back soon.

Here we were just after we arrived walking around the resort exploring.

First lunch with a view of the beach and ocean, and first of many Corona.

And that restaurant in the distance was our favorite place to go. The food was incredible and the view was pretty awesome too.

Then the first night we were able to partake in a release of baby sea turtles. I had no idea they were going to be so tiny and black-

And one picture of the food- yummy fish tacos from our first day. This was probably the lease impressive of the presentations, everything always looked as good as it tasted.

Having cocktails at the tiki bar before dinner one night.

Sunset view from our balcony

The lounge "chairs" in our favorite pool

ahhh, this pool might be my new happy place...

Hugo and Maria were our pals at the Seaside Grill we ate at often. They loved eating pretty much anything that was tossed their way, including flowers.

Right after a delicious Italian meal at Portofino

A cute honeymoon couple that we met and had dinner with that night. Dominic & Luciana were married once before 15 years ago but divorced after a year and a half. Neither of them remarried and 15 years later they reconnected on Facebook and ended up getting married again.

Big Baby (from Toy Story 3) came along with us. Apparently he is not down with sunbathing and is giving it the thumbs down.

Donna & Phil, another fun couple we met on our trip.

The first half of the trip each night thunderstorms would roll in as the sun was setting-

Big Baby liked his wine at Portofino

When we were coming home from dinner one night there were fire dancers outside of our lobby doing their show to Daft Punk, it was a really fun surprise.

Dinner one night (above) and eating at Oceana, our favorite breakfast place. You can't see the ocean behind us, but it's there. We got really used to eating with such a great view.

Big Baby decided he wanted to try the boogie boards with us one day-

One of the many beautiful sunsets

Dinner on our last night there

And I had to snap this picture while we were there. We have a VERY similar one from our honeymoon.

We also went on a Puerto Vallarta "Adventure" and I'll post pictures of that soon...