Summer is HERE

And with that I decided the blog needed a little sprucing, because I've been feeling so uninspired to write on it.

So here we go!

School is out and Summer is HERE. I feel like it officially started yesterday when my student's family I'm tight with decided to take me to Mexico with them.

Let me just say the mom, Sonia, perfectly summed up the day by saying it was "the most miserable and wonderful day"...let me expound...

The day started off by dragging carpet to the street at 5 AM for brush and bulky trash, fixing summer school for Bianca, and the Raging Sage's coffee & scones.

Then we were off to Naco, where they're family lives. It's a little border hamlet near Bisbee. Unfortunately though, those little towns here in AZ have cops who are BORED OUT OF THEIR MINDS, and I got a ticket for going 11 over on the freeway.....gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

We get over the border and have the most wonderful day with their great aunt, Tia Mari, their 96 year-old great grandmother, and their cousins.


Sights of Naco

there are lots of broken down, very old buildings created with handmade bricks - so cool

awesome old church

huge church near center of town

the family + me

Bianca and her 96 year-old nana

Tia Mari - she is such a wonderful woman. She brought me medicine for my hands when my fingertips were peeling and made "sopes" for us when we were there. Now she's bringing us "sandia" :) [Their mission was to get me speaking Spanish, as I know a lot but rarely speak it, so it kind of worked and was lots of fun]

Un truke (no idea how to spell) de ajo - garlic truck. The town grows TONS of purple garlic!

Bianca at her nana's

Jocelyn and her tia

Such lovely women

La calle de nana - the street her grandmother lives on

So this all was the wonderful part of the day.

Then on the way home, as we're driving into Sierra Vista, Bianca screams, "Ahh - something bit me," followed by her sister crushing the bug with a water bottle. It turns out to be a red ant, which her father is highly allergic to, and it turns out Bianca is highly allergic to. Her arms were numb and her throat was closing all with 5 minutes so we had to stop at the Circle K and call an ambulance. Jocelyn and I followed the 2 in the ambulance to the hospital, where Bianca was completely drugged with enough Benadryl to put a horse to sleep.

That was the miserable part of the day.

2 hours later, we're back on the road with Chipotle, McDonald's, and a lovely twilight sky.

None of us were EVER so happy to be home...except Bianca who didn't know the difference because she was sooooo very medicated. Once we got back she went to put her pj's on and came out with them on over her clothes. :)