Mazatlan, Mexico

Yesterday my Grandma came to visit for a week. In Mazatlan, I have two friends: Adam and Ben. Adam is on a metal powerboat and Ben is on a sailboat. Ben and Adam both have pets. Ben has a dog named Chica. Adam has two cats, Oreo and Fiddlesticks. Mazatlan is really beautiful. It has flowers and trees everywhere. I miss Seattle a lot I wish I could be there.

This is our dock

Pool 

Slide at the pool

Grass

Marina

Main lobby of El Cid Marina Resort

We are in Barra De Navidad again

We are on are way back up to Puerto Vallarta then up to the Sea of Cortez for the spring. Appa and Sand Dollar are going to play Dungeons and Dragons, 4th edition. I chose to be a Shard Mind Invoker named Jim. Easton (from Sand Dollar) is a Dragon-Born Paliden. Kaley (from Sand Dollar) is a Nome Warlock , Nate (from Sand Dollar) is a Shifter Warlock, and Max might be a Human Ranger (at least I think he is). We will ask him when he gets back from Seattle on Sunday. I’m excited to play because it’s going to be a game where you fight monsters.

Far South

We are in Zihuataejo. The farthest south we are going to go on this trip. Me and my dad are going to calculate how many miles we have gone so far.

Where we started: Seattle

Where we are right now: Zihutanejo!

I was so happy when the Seahawks won. We watched it in a bar with tons of other people. When Easton and I go to shore we make sand structures like this one:

Easton and I made this world: water, fire, earth and air temples with a volcano in the middle. Sam made the one next to ours...

It took me and Easton a half hour to build. But it was fun to make. I am so excited to go to Seattle. If you think home schooling is better than school you are wrong. You have to do 3 hours a day, no weekends and no recesses L . But you do get to go to shore when you’re done. And you can snorkel, and jump off other boats' rigging. When we first got here, another boat named Patricia Belle called us over to jump off their big boat for fun. Kaley, Easton and I swam over and we had fun. They even had a rope swing but only Easton did it. Their boat is kind of like a pirate boat. My favorite thing these days to do is listen to music like Vida La Vida, Some Nights, and Party Rock Anthem. My God Dad Joe downloaded 953 songs onto my IPod for me. I really love and miss my God Parents Keri and Joe and my friends in Delaware.

More from Ben

We are in Barra De Navidad. We are in a marina that is in front of a huge, fancy resort. They have 2 cool slides at the pools. One is super slow and one is fast. We had fun there with our friends from Vales Valeo (Sonia and Anna), Antipodes (Adam) and Sand Dollar (Nate, Kaley and Easton). While we are here there is fishing tournament going on. We saw many sailfish and a big marlin being lifted out of fishing boats. We also got to go to a cool Buffet at the hotel and we got SUSHI!  J            We are more than halfway through the trip. I have been thinking a lot about Seattle lately and am already planning a lot of stuff to do there when I get there. My mom says we will be there around June 1.

The Best Month of My Life

Everyone I haven’t been writing lately. So here is a update from me. We’ve been in this bay for 1 month . The bay is called Banderas Bay. First we were in La Cruz and then we were in Paradise Village (Nuevo Vallarta) for Christmas and New Year’s. My Oma and Opa (German for Grandma and Grampa)came to visit. For Christmas, I got a 3DS and a really good boogie board. I also got Pokemon X and Y. We’ve been doing lots of fun things, like getting to let go some endangered sea turtles. Then doing a tour of Puerto Vallarta. Then we did 10 ziplines in the jungle and swam in a cold river afterwards. It was where they filmed “Predator”. After that we did a water park. At the water park you could swim with dolphins. We got to do the Royal Swim. We got to ride on their fins and also we got to do the foot push. Their skin felt like leather. It was really cool. I am going to write in my blog every week now. I am also writing a journal every day here on the boat. 

Two dolphins are giving me a foot push!!!

More from Ben -"Having Fun in La Paz"

Having Fun In La Paz (I wrote this with my friend Ben Dillard)

Last night I had a sleepover with Easton and a new friend named Ben Dillard. It was very exciting because we came from Sand Dollar to my friend’s boat Sea Otter and ate sugar coated elephant ears (a type of sweet), called “Bunuelos”. After the sugar rush we did plants vs. zombies except the other Ben’s( big Ben’s) sugar rush didn’t end till later. Once Ben’s parents got back , they crashed the party and sent us to bed. WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TIME FOR PICTIONARY! Next time I hope we get to play Pictionary.

The day before the overnighter we went swimming. We played Marco Polo and sat in the hot tub. The only down side is that there was an occasional fly or moth floating at the top. GROSS!

Overall La Paz was one of the most fun places I have been.  

This is from a couple days ago.  More later.  We are trying to get a schedule for Ben to blog.  he is reluctant.  

In La Paz today my friend Ben, Easton and I slept on Easton’s boat. It was fun we all did homework together. We studied Mexico and la Paz. My study was the history. Did you know that they didn’t settle until 1830?  Today we went to a place to eat it was fun. We made an awesome sand castle there. When we left we walked down the street when we heard someone calling us then we looked back and there was the owner of the place holding our dog .Tomorrow we’re going to my friend’s boat. I can’t wait!