My Most Memorable Vacation

Most Memorable Vacation

I remember my family's first vacation. It was on November 11, 2015 on the beach in a beautiful place called Puerto Peñasco in Sonora, Mexico. Family vacations are not something a family of seven have the luxury of taking when there’s other priorities, but I knew my family and I were in desperate need of one, especially this mommy of a 2-year-old. My sister in law had planned the family vacation with two purposes, our annual family trip and to give back to the children of Sonora. The community event was called “Christmas in November”. After extending our dollars and pinching our pennies, we saved enough to join this exciting family vacation!

It’s midnight and this mommy is still washing, drying, packing clothes and beach towels. Our plan was to leave at 6am, but with so much to do, we didn’t hit the road until after 8am. Fortunately, the in laws were also running behind. With 4 hours on the road, we finally arrived to our destination, Playa Encanto in Puerto Peñasco. My eyes illuminated like a Christmas tree and I could not stop staring. We had the most amazing beach front house. It was an 8 bedroom, 5-bathroom home.

We woke up, showered, packed and headed down stairs to have one last breakfast by the beach. After breakfast, the children went down to the beach to collect sea shell souvenirs, as the adults loaded the vehicles. Not wanting to end our vacation, my husband and I went out back to have a cup of coffee for an hour or so watching the children collect their sea shells. The time has come to leave the property and hit the road. Not knowing it was a popular vacation destination, we sat for hours waiting to cross the border with so many vehicles and motorcycles. In the meantime, we began to share things we loved about our vacation while we made it home in the next four hours. Hopefully we are able to have another trip like this again since it was an unforgettable best vacation