Hello Clearwater!

After much anticipation and a 5 hour red eye flight we are finally at our destination. There is a reason they call the midnight flights "Red Eye" we all have matching red eyes from sleep deprivation and a long night sitting in the tiny airline seats.
We arrived at 6:00 A.M Eastern time (3:00 a.m.). Picked up our rental car and were off headed to Clearwater by 7:00 a.m. Pretty smooth process... Clearwater is about a 4 hour drive from Ft. Lauderdale, Julio drove and I slept most of the time!
Now to the wonderful weather in this area. For those of you that know us, you know what kind of weather we almost always have anywhere we go since March 1995. Yes! It has been raining with hurricane like wind all day! Let's hope we have less rain and more sun tomorrow.
It is now 7:41 P.M and with our little sleep last night we are pretty much falling asleep at the stoplights (there's traffic in certain spots of the city so the stop and go is prolonged).
We have complimentary Internet access at this hotel, so we will likely log on tomorrow to share pictures of our day.
Hasta manana.

Two more days!

As our departure date draws nearer we are more excited to have a few days of peace and relaxation. We can't wait until we can just sit relax and read our favorite book that has been waiting on our night stand for the past entire school year. We hope to finally get past the first few sentences, unlike the days when our sleep deprived bodies and heavy eyelids collapse after just a few words. The countdown to our departure has begun!

Eleven days!

We continue to anxiously await our departure date. we leave in 11 days to our cruise.

26 More Days!

In twenty six days we leave to what promises to be a very relaxing vacation. Today we are making the final arrangements for our stays in the various cities we will be staying at.

Thirty nine more days!

It sounds like a long time, but it's really only a little over a month.

Leyva Vacation 2009

We can hardly believe it has almost been a year since our last summer vacation. This years travel is not as far and impressive as in 2008, but we are hoping to have a wonderful time as well. This year we will be flying to Fort Laud. Florida late in the day on June 25th, arriving on the 26th. in the early morning. We will head to Clearwater FL and spend a few days there, on June 28 we head to Miami for a 5 day cruise. The itinerary to be announced in the future...Our last stop will be the Keys until the day we fly back on July 7th
43 more days until we leave!!!

Scottsdale Arizona

It's been a few weeks since our last entry. It's been hard to catch up after being gone for a few weeks. Europe was awesome but at such rapid pace. We don't think we ever got to bed before midnight, even Alec! With everything to see and do, plus the fact that the sun sets so late it was difficult getting the much needed rest, which is why we chose to take a relaxing, slower pace, lazy vacation. This time we drove to Scottsdale Arizona, about a 7 hour drive from Los Angeles. We stayed at a hotel in a very nice newer part of town and enjoyed the pool and the scalding hot Jacuzzi (the scorching heat during the day plus the already warm water made it unbearable!). The second day after our arrival we went tubbing to the river about 45 min. away. What an adventure! We rode about 4 hours downstream with such a fantastic view of the dessert. Huge cacti, mountains and just nature at it's dessert best! We even got to see horses right by the river bank getting a drink of water. Beautiful sight to contemplate in the stillness of the day...that is until a group of young men interrupted the ride with their expletives combined with alcoholic beverages and other substances that we chose to not mention. There was also the men with the loud radio playing old rock songs and yelling at the top of their lungs that they were "white trash" yes, they were yelling that to anyone that would listen! We had to then explain to Alec what they were saying...to which he responded: "why would anyone call themselves that?" Ahhhhh all the questions! All which remind us that we have an eager, inquisitive, curious child that we are molding everyday with experiences and opinions that will likely be part of him for a good long time. We don't have pictures of the experience because our camera is not waterproof and besides Julio forgot the battery so, until our next "field trip".
Goodbye.