We had an amazing weekend whale watching. We had wanted to go to Puerto Vallarta to see the whales since we found out about them in September, but hadn't been able to until this weekend. We had planned it a few times and it fell through. We picked out a three day weekend and booked it!
The minute we were able to leave on Friday we were ready. Only problem the taxi wasn't. Luckly we made it to the bus station with 15- 20 minutes to spare. We accidently picked the wrong bus stop, extending our trip about an hour. Once we were on the bus and in our seats Brian and I both thought, "Wow, we really should do this more." That is until the first movie came on. Two "R" rated movies in a row and then a french concert. They were the type of movies that you couldn't let your child even see. It was a very difficult trip trying to keep them preoccupied so that they didn't even look up. Joelle fell asleep towards the end of the trip and woke up and had an accident in the bus bathroom. I kept thinking, "was this REALLY worth it! I better see whales!"
God was gracious to us and did allow us to see Whales the next morning. In fact, we were only in the boat 15 minutes by the time we saw the first ones! We saw more than one baby calf with it's parents. They like to teach the babies to eat and survive at Puerto Vallarta because it's the second largest bay in the world and it's the deepest one. We saw at a distance whales jumping out of the water, fully breached. As we raced to see them closer they continued to jump. Two whales leaped at the same time whole body out of the water. It was amazing. Edan said to me later, "It was like we were in a movie!" One came up out of the water right by our boat to check us out!
Joelle was cold and pouty at first. She leaned over to me and said, "I don't want to swim with the whales!" I laughed and said, "No one is swimming with them this time." She was remembering our trip out to see the turtles and how we had tried to get her to go in the water. Every time she agreed to get in she ended up screaming because it was so cold. At the end of the trip, we went to a reef and fed tropical fish. A couple of the teachers snorkled.
The whales weren't the only excitement on our trip. We stayed in the same hotel as the Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon. We had taken a walk on the beach and were going to wait to watch the sunset. We noticed that the hotel was putting up metal detectors at all the entrances. We also saw two fully armed soldiers at each end of the Marriott's beach property. We then looked out at the water and there was a big navy boat right off shore and then we looked up and saw a army helicopter circling. We found out by our friends that there were also tanks in the front of the hotel. I jokingly said to Brian, "It's the President. He's staying at our hotel." It was hillarious when we found out that the joke was actually true!
The rest of the time we spent lounging (watching) at the pool or the beach as the kids played. Our ride back was much better. We shortened it by an hour (even though our bus got a flat tire and had to fix it). We asked the bus driver if he could put movies on that children could watch and he put on two. Joelle still had another accident, but we were prepared with a change of clothes. I'm sure Brian will get on here and edit, add and change the post, but I was so excited about the video Brian got of the whales I decided to go ahead and hit "Publish Post".
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