Cancun Recap

Aaron, Wyatt, and I really enjoyed our time in Cancun. Here's our little family picture by the beach. And below is my mom and dad:

Wyatt was enthralled with Grandpa's beard...

And he tried drinking out of a straw - pretty funny!

On Sunday night we went to the restaurant in our resort - Gustina. It was an Italian restaurant, and it was fantastic! I had the special - Mushroom-stuffed, pancetta-wrapped prawns on sun-dried tomato risotto. Yum! :)

Aaron had some kind of a crab-stuffed pasta. I can't remember what it was called - I was too distracted by what I got!

And dessert - I got the chocolate mousse... Also excellent.

And my mom and dad got the Tiramisu, which they also said was great.

And the best part about dinner...

Wyatt fell asleep right after we got to the restaurant! Hurray! :) He was such a trooper this trip. The two previous nights he was very high maintenance during dinner, so it was nice to let him nap and be comfortable, and we got to enjoy dinner. I'm so glad we brought that stroller - it was nice for him to be able to lay back and nap wherever. He napped during lunch one day, and by the pool twice in it!

Anyway, yesterday we were scheduled to leave Cancun around 7:15 and get into Cedar Rapids around 1:45. Well, we made the flight to Dallas just fine, but once we got to our gate, they announced that they were looking for 18 volunteers to get bumped! Yikes! Then, since no one volunteered they called names of people who bought their tickets at a discount, so we got called. Turns out our names came up as some of the first people to be bumped. Well, we talked to the people at the desk, and they seemed to think that if they could get two volunteers then my dad and I and Wyatt could get on the plane (since my dad was scheduled to see patients today, and so was I and also since I was traveling with a baby). So I felt better about it all. Then our flight was canceled due to the fog in Cedar Rapids. Awesome. My dad called the weatherman at KWWL and he said that the flight on Tuesday (today) was likely to be canceled again. So, instead of flying out today, we decided to drive all the way from Dallas back to Iowa last night! Well, it was a little complicated as we didn't have Wyatt's car seat (I thought it would be easier to check it on the way home... irony). The car rental place gave us a car seat, and it came with the wrong installation directions so we had to get a different seat. Wyatt was a very good boy - he hardly fussed the whole way home, which is impressive because it was about 14 hours! He slept for a lot of the drive, thank goodness. So we got into Cedar Rapids around 3:30 am today, and got back to Iowa City just after 4 am. Then we put Wyatt to bed and ourselves to bed! Unfortunately I had to miss clinic today - I don't think I would have been worth anything if I tried to sleep for two hours and then get up and drive to Muscatine today. So I missed going to the pediatric clinic today, but at least my instructor has been nice about it.

Today, we are keeping it low key. Aaron went back to the airport to drop off the rental, and he found out our bags aren't in yet. Looks like I'm going to have to send him to Wal-mart to get some make-up, etc. since that's all in my checked bag! :)

We are happy to be home safe, and the trip was fun even if getting home was an adventure. Gotta run, Wyatt's a little fussy today. Teething???