We spent the last week trying to get as much "baby time" in as possible before we left. I wonder if she will even remember Mom Rob and I when we go back in March. We also spent a alot of time looking for the right Nanny to help Dad with Bella Carmen when he is alone. We put a 3 day ad in the newspaper and got over 200 responses! At just to get a brake from the ringing every now and then we had to unplug the phone. Literally the second that you plugged the phone back in, it would start ringing again. Eventually after 5 days we picked our favourite one, a middle aged woman named Socorro. I may have been fate because socorro is the word "help" in Spanish.
After many goodbye hugs and a bit of crying from some people our family split at the airport. Dad and the baby going back to Mazatlan and Mom Rob and I going home to Canada. after 3 bag x-rays and searches we were told our plane was 2 hours late. When we got to our stop over in Phoenix we were standing in the line for customs when a sniffer dagstarted to lick the handbag I was holding. Luckily we were able to say that we had some ham sandwiches in there so they let us go after yet another x-ray and the confiscation of our sammies. As we were going through security for our second plane we heard the x-ray operator exclaim, "What are those?!?!?!" when he saw our toner cartridges go through. We had bought 2 special toner cartridges for a printer at a school in Belize but we ended up not taking them because of Bella. We were hoping to return them at the store in Richmond. The guys at the security check point made us wait for almost an hour while they disected and bomb sniffed our bags because apparently toner cartridges have been outlawed on planes for the last 6 months even though we had taken these cartridges on 3 flights in the last month. When we finally arrived in Vancouver and yet again our bags were torn apart, by the customs guys this time. Eventually (2:30 in the morning) we stumbled into bed. Today I got up to find the pool covered in an inch of ice, I am already looking forward to going back to Mexico in March.
