Puerto Vallarta

Daniel and I just returned from spending 5 glorious day in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We had such an amazing time! Puerto Vallarta is on the Pacific side of Mexico and is surrounded by rain forest and mountains. It was really neat to get to see the forest, mountains, and beach all at the same time. We stayed at the Dreams Puerto Vallarta and this was the view from our room. Gorgeous! The tower of the hotel that you can see in the picture had recently been remodeled and most of the pictures on the website are from that tower (complete with hot tubs on each balcony). We did not stay in that tower, but we loved our room all the same...it was great.

We spent 90% of our time sitting in the beach chairs under one of those little huts you can see in the pictures. There was plenty of room for 2-3 chairs and we just sat and read/relaxed/talked. It rains almost everyday in August in PV, but it would only rain for an hour or so in the late afternoon. Several times we just stayed in our chairs and watched it rain from under our little roof.

We did make a trip into town one morning. The Malecon is a popular boardwalk/beach because of its life size sand sculptures.

One of the tours that we did take was the Outdoor Adventure by Vallarta Adventures. The tour includes a ride up the mountain in a Unimog (picture below....a little interesting) before going the rest of the way up the mountain on a mule. Daniel's mule was named Diablo...had me worried for just a little while until I saw how tame they really were. After arriving at the top, you work your way back down by a series of ziplines and rappelling. We were speeding above the trees, sometimes into pools in the river, and rappelling down waterfalls....it was amazing!! You were not allowed to take your camera on the tour because of the water involved, so we just have a few shots from before we really got started.

And that is all the pictures that we took....I know...we didn't do too great of a job in that department, but we were too busy just hanging out! Probably one of the best vacations ever!!

Kenna got to spend the time with her Grandpa and Grandma Boyd, Mercy, Solomon, and several of her other uncles. She seemed to have a blast and even got to spend some time with JD! Thanks everybody for helping keep our little girl entertained....Mommy and Daddy sure did miss her!!