The journey truly began today. My morning started at 12:00am, only really starting to sleep around 10:00pm. To the airport before it even officially opened to check you in! 3:39 is just too early. Plane to LAX, chatted with Donovan during the layover. My friend - Oliver is texting I must wear a sailor suit for some reason. Dude...I landed in Puerto Vallarta 10 minutes ahead of schedule only to wait over an hour to get through the great equalizer, immigration. I bribed a customs official (smiling) to let me bring in my sunflower & pumpkin seeds by giving him a chocolate chip cookie I was packing (thanks Billy). Capitan Lauro had been waiting all the extra time standing at the airport entrance holding a sign with my name on. I did indeed feel very special today! Lauro took me right away to meet his family and to see Breathless.
Breathless - Truly the bell of the bay! Well, this grand yacht sits in the most honorable slip in the harbor, along side the outside cafe for all to admire, and admire her they do. With all her meticulously kept chrome, wood and white - she does take your breath away. I do hear her calling out for another woman around to spark her up (we girls need each other). Tomorrow is our full day on the ship working to organize her inventory.
This evening, Lauro and I - per Mr. Reinhard's instructions, walked the old town area where the villa is located, saw indigenous folk singers, men inverted on rope as a form of worship, beauty in the nightlife color and music. All this along a sea wall with sand sculptures lit up to show off the master pieces. To thank him and his family for all of Lauro's time this Sunday I presented him with a gift of chocolates (thanks To Kaleb's school fund raising efforts). Lauro and family were perfect hosts in every way.Tonight I swam in the pool on the veranda of a magnificent villa on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Who says dreams don't come true.
I feel I'm the luckiest woman alive tonight as the pirate ship sails toward me aglow in Christmas regalia. It must 70 plus degrees right now at 10:00 pm. Merry almost Christmas everyone... Fireworks anybody?
