Shanon’s Blog

How long does it take to recover from a trip to Mexico? I dib;t know but it’s more than a day or two. I don’t know that I’ve been as tired driving into work as I was this morning. I’ve been sleepy and had a hard time getting here before, but today was one of those days where all I could do was freeze myself out of the car and sing as loud as I could to the hardest to sing along to songs possible. It was still so hard. But I’m sure that going and going and going for four days and being in the sun and indulging in a few alcohol treats will wear even the highest energy person out. I am for sure not that person, so blah.

It was a fantastic trip to Playa though. It started out interesting with Al trying to avoid taxes and sneak what seemed like millions of t-shirts into the country then getting detained and some soldier guy being horribly mean and yelling at us to get out of the area. We stopped at the first 7-11 we saw to get water, beer, and hot nuts. Kellie dared me to shove as many hot nuts as possible into my mouth and I ended up choking and spitting them into a bag. Big deal, right?

When we got to the condo I was in awe. We’ve gotten to stay at some nice places working for this show, but this one topped them all. It was so far beyond what I expected I was speechless. I wish I would have done a better job taking pictures so I could post them and show you how amazing this place was, but I did a horrible job at taking pics, so I can’t do that. Just believe me when I say that I was ecstatic when we walked in.

It was not a huge drunk fest the whole time. I wanted to remember the trip, so I tried to keep it under control. There was the one instance in which I ended up in Kellie’s room asleep on the couch in a tank top and beach towel. Losing your shorts happens to the best of us, right? Otherwise it was pretty much just a good time hanging out with Mary and the other people on the trip. We lay on the beach, went to the pool, ate a lot, hung out at the condo, and did other stuff people do in Mexico. Mary and I went off on our own and did some shopping and eating and stuff. It was so great having her there and I just wanted to take it in.

I think this trip did a ton of good for us. Stuff was said that needed to be said and we came back home with a brand new outlook on things. I don’t really know exactly what it is that has changed, but I know it’s something big and I couldn’t be happier. So thank you Al for a fantastic weekend and, more importantly, giving us the chance to clear the air with no crap or drama to deal with on the side.