The day was absolutely gorgeous with sunshine and NO clouds - was I really ready to go home? Of course not, but one must!
Packing to go home is never much fun but at least it's easy as you don't have to worry about folding everything just so - but of course there was a bottle of tequila to pack (and no matter how tight the lid is, it always leaks - this time was no exception -luckily the zip-lock bag held!!) I also had bought a couple of ceramic bowls and they made it home too with no breakage!
We actually got ready early so we sat on the gazebo the last hour just gazing at the ocean and the waves, knowing that SOMEDAY, we would come back here!
The drive to the airport was without incident and we turned the rental car in with no problem! With a couple of hours to kill, we shopped - there were 3 or 4 stores that had Christmas ornaments AND book marks. Note to self: don't bother shopping for these 2 items until you get to the airport to go home - seems like they are ALWAYS available at the airport! I indeed bought another ornament for the tree, this one with Zihuatanejo on it and it's cute as can be!
We grabbed some lunch, headed through security and soon were in Phoenix! Customs went just fine but the luggage took FOREVER to come through - even though we had an hour layover and customs only took about 15 minutes, it was NOT enough time with the darn luggage taking so long! I truly believe ours was the LAST two to come out and by this time we were down to 15 minutes before take-off! No problem, right?? WRONG! We still had to go through the checkpoint with our luggage and then recheck the luggage - and then we started running! Of course our gates were about as far away as you could get - and when we FINALLY got to the right section, we could hear the last boarding call - we raced down to the end and our gate wasn't there - I had taken the wrong turn and went the wrong direction - duh - so back up that section and way down on the other end! We raced up to the door, completely out of breath, and they shut the door behind us! WHEW - I really didn't want to spend the night in the Phoenix airport as this was the last flight of the night!
And soon we arrived in Denver, again picked up our luggage, took the shuttle to our car and made it back to Jaime's house by 9:30 - in our shorts of course - we had planned on changing into our jeans in Phoenix but of course that didn't happen!
All in all - one fantastic trip!
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All in all, one fantastic trip is right! Now that I have seen Troncones, I will never stay in Zihua again. Can you imagine spending Christmas in Z with all those people? Well, that is what Jim and I did a few years ago! Now that you have shown us the great pics of this place, I want to stay there some day! In fact, I am going to just let you do all the research, and then I will go there after you do.
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