And so our journey begins.

A couple of months ago Kenji and I got an invitation to J/M's wedding, scheduled for the 7th of May. Now with the wedding date fast approaching we had to begin our travel midday Friday the 2nd to Saltillo where we would meet up with Angie, Ez, Jo, and Chris and all travel down the next day. Here is a wee bit of what happened during our travel and arrival.

Friday:
I ever so carefully planned this bus ride. I purposefully got to the bus station 15 minutes before the bus was scheduled to leave as I didn't want to be waiting around so long for it but to my dismay the bus was late, nothing too unusual. So I found myself having to wait close to half an hour before getting on the bus then another 10 minutes before actually pulling out of the station. Not so cool!

As soon as we got on the bus Kenji asked me to open the Sprite bottle I had gotten for myself and helped himself to it, so naughty! Seeing as the bus was taking a while to begin it's drive Kenji decided to draw a bit, but was quickly distracted with a video of "Alvin and the chipmunks".

When the bus finally decided that it was good and ready to pull out, 45 minutes late mind you, Kenji did the cutest thing. As the bus took off, and a good 5 minutes into our drive, Kenji was holding on to the curtain with one hand and continued drawing with the other, I guess he felt safer that way. So cute! Thank the Lord we had a safe and quick bus ride and Kenji slept through the majority of the trip.

So we arrive in Saltillo at about 4:00, get picked up, do some food shopping for our trip the next day, and then finally go to the home at about 6:00 and to our surprise it happens to be Papa's birthday and because of this the home is making a special meal - roasted lamb and some other tasty trimmings to go along with it. It was delicious!

Saturday:
We began our long journey to Mexico City at around 10:30, I know a bit late but I wasn't the one driving so I didn't have much say :D. We also had to make a stop that took a bit of time as a fuel place agreed to fill up our tank before leaving so we had to spend some time with this man, but it was worth it! Another plus was that thankfully the car we drove down in was a spacious one so we weren't too squishy!

And to tell you the truth it was a rather pleasant drive, minus the intense heat even with the AC on at around noon, and we managed to make it in 9 hours! No we didn't drive like mad we actually had a speed limit we had to stick to :D. Well the driving alone was actually 8 hours, but with the usual bathroom breaks and lunch break we made a total of 9 hours. Not bad, huh?

Kenji behaved pretty well, he only had one throw up scare, and lucky for me slept for the majority of our journey. He got a bit fussy close to lunch time, but with Chris in the car it kept his mind away from his "troubles" or more like it kept him scared to do anything other then stare at him, heh.

After he got bored of Chris and his "cleverness" I managed to keep him happy a bit longer till our lunch break with a drawing board. Then once he got bored of drawing Angie took over and it kept him happy a tad longer. He really did do his best to stay happy and wait for lunch break, but after a good while he couldn't hold out anymore so I gave him a little snack in the car, but it didn't go so well for his tummy as we were in motion, thus the throw-up scare. :(

At one of our snack/bathroom breaks a couple of motorcycles parked right beside us and Kenji got so happy and excited and made me walk him over to where they were parked. He kept on repeating "WHOA, mama, WHOA!" as we stood in front of them and watched the motorcycles drive off one by one, but then got so sad when they were all gone. :( (Mental note: I must try and get him one for his b-day which is fast approaching).

Anyways, at about 7:30 we arrived at the CTC safe and sound and were greeted by old friends as well as by a lovely rain storm. It was actually quite pleasant, well maybe because I really like rain, and much prefer cold weather over hot weather. Thank the Lord even though Kenji slept a lot during our trip, he still went to bed at a decent time and slept so well.

Sunday:
After a sleep-in and some Word time we all headed out to Tepo for some Mother's Day shopping and of course a yummy lunch at the traditional place - "La Duena". It's funny how going there again, brought back so many memories, good and bad, ha!

Seeing as Kenji wasn't really into shopping and preferred to play and run around I bought him a ball to play with in the little "kiosko". He had a great time with the ball and kept on yelling "Goal!" each time he kicked it. Then when he had enough of that he went on a little car ride. He was flipped out at the fact that he was "driving" a car. Such a cutie!

After a couple of yummy Tepo ice-creams we headed back home for a little snooze. And spent the rest of the afternoon doing things that little boys love doing like; chasing the dogs around/trying to get them to play with him, riding a tricycle, playing with cars, climbing up and down a flight of stairs, playing soccer, running down hills, playing in the dirt, I mean building something ... heh, and of course getting into a whole lot of every day naughtiness. Enjoy the pics!