"the village"........it happens!

anyone who has seen the movie "the village" will know what i thought when the following conversation happened. so we were in cancun......and i suggested that we go into the town and see a bit of mexico and eat real mexican food. "oh no. it's dangerous! we can't leave the resort. we should stay here." immediately i thought of the people from "the village". being the traveller that i am.......i never thought it was such a crazy idea. four people go into town for some authentic food and a bit of shopping. doesn't sound too bad to me. so i laughed to myself at the response to the suggestion of checking out the unknown amongst these resort only travelling americans. my sister amy informed me just last night that her and her husband mike went into the town of cancun when they were there and it was great. now......i will give it to the fearful travellers.......i'm sure there are parts of mexico that we don't want to be in, but a tourist destination town isn't going to cause too much trouble.......and i thought the movie was crazy!

it was so nice of teddy's parents to give us the week in cancun. it was great to be in a hot climate again. the resort was like nothing i'd ever stayed at before. we soaked up sun everyday......ate lots of food......visited tulum (an important historical site in the cancun area) and had a day at the spa. we didn't do anything mexican and this resort could have been anywhere in the world.....but it was beautiful.

pink, pink, pink

anyone who knows me well knows that i hate wearing pink. i have never owned anything pink and my face winces at the thought of wearing it. lately, though, i have thought about trying to change that---all the while probably looking like i'd rather any other form of torture! with all the pink out and about for the past couple years.....it's hard sometimes to get the item i like in a color other than pink. i'm not too sure what brought on the dislike of pink. i've just always hated it. most people know my answer to "what color do you want?" (for anything we are talking about at the time) is and always has been, "anything but pink.". change is good and this year i think i'm gonna try to change my aversion to pink. just last night we went shopping (t, henry, jessica and i) for swim trunks for teddy for next week in cancun. being the shopping girls we are, inevitably, jessica and i ended up shopping as well. it was only 3 tank tops---but one is......you guessed it......pink! we were at old navy and i saw a sales table of tank tops for $1.97........but only one color was marked down that low. i thought "awww man, i wish they had any other color than pink. jessica will like it though i'll go tell her about it." so when we were both looking at them and i asked her "what if i changed my hatred of pink and bought my first pink top?" i couldn't even ask that question without my face looking like someone just forced me to eat the sourest lemon they'd found. she said "sure and this is only $1.97!". so i figured with such a great deal i'd begin my attempt at changing my aversion to pink. now, for all of you who have wished for years that i'd wear pink (mom!)........don't flood me with pink. this is going to be a slow process.

bienvenido a cancun!

that's right.......i'm going to cancun! of course,this means that-yet again-i miss something important going on at home. erika is getting married in march and after taking the past year off i need to be working by then......so i'm going to miss the wedding. her bridal shower is the weekend of the 21st of this month, and there are some people getting together for some fun that friday night. i was sure i'd be home in time for that, but i'm not going to make it. teddy's brother, henry, and sister-in-law, jessica, are having us stay with them right now and they are leaving for cancun this saturday. they mentioned how much fun it would be for us to go with them and after a short discussion with teddy, we decided we didn't want to spend that money right now and i wanted to be home for erika's weekend, so........we decided not to go. well when teddy's parents heard that we decided not to go, they booked us in for the trip and surprised us last night when they called to say that we are going. i hate always missing things at home, and i really wanted to be home the end of january, but it's not like i can say "no thanks. i'm busy. i can't go to cancun. maybe next time.". i just wish i was as excited about going as the rest of the gang. i think when i get there i'll warm up to it pretty quickly though!

teddy and i

i hardly ever post photos and i'm gonna try to do it more often. here is one of teddy and i in the boston city public gardens between his brother's place and boston common. henry took this with the camera on his phone (during our first visit in november)......as i have a hard time remembering to bring my camera when i go out. thanks henry!

mercury rising

well.....well....well....

i am sitting in henry (t's brother) and jessica's (henry's wife) bay window, on commonwealth ave, in the heart of downtown boston. i take a break from surfing the web for flight deals to look outside and people are jogging, walking their dogs, pushing their strollers, riding their bikes----in t-shirts! i knew today was going to be warm so i decided a second ago to check the thermometer stuck to the outside of the window. it reads a very hefty 70 degrees! dead on 70! (this is 21 degrees celsius for any of you fellow canucks out there!) is this not january 6th??? just the other day (it was probably about 60 degrees---15 celsius) when t and i were walking through boston common i asked him if a certain tree looked pink to him. he said it looked like cherry blossoms. trying to deny it i said "no way" but thought back to the many cherry blossoms i saw in korea and it looked strangely familiar. of course that was in april of those spring days in korea-----certainly not january! i heard in a news story last night, about the strangely warm temperatures, that cherry blossoms were out in washington d.c.......so i guess they just may have been cherry blossoms. i'm gonna check it out the next time i walk by that tree.......supposing it doesn't frost over and snow in the next day or two like it should this time of year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

we made it through the month in canada and are back in boston. it sure was great to be back in canada for christmas. i should do it more often. i only wish t let himself enjoy it more. he didn't really want to come but it was important for me that he be there so he reluctantly came. i won't ask him to come again against his will, but in some ways i'm glad i insisted. it may (or may not) be the last christmas for some of the old people in our family so it was good that everyone was well enough to enjoy christmas with us and that i was finally home.

the driving back this far was great. we had to hope and pray for a sunny day and dry roads as we are making our trip on summer tires......and we couldn't have had a better day for driving. yes.....i DO know.......it's not a good idea.......but with the car requiring 17 inch tires we weren't going to put about $1000 worth of winter tires on the car for less than one month of use. now we just need one more day of sunshine and dry roads in a week or two to get us far enough south that bad weather won't challenge our road trip.

i trust you all had a wonderful holiday season. i hope you have a happy new year and may 2007 be a year filled with many happy memories!