Wendy In Mexico: The Weekend Adventures

This is why I should avoid boredom,
I start doing special things such as this

I have been here just a bit under a month now, and it's been great! I've been super lucky, under a month and I've already visited two cities and a beach! There have been some challenges. The hardest thing for me has been hanging around with nothing to do and nowhere to go- after my insanely busy last two months in Canada it's been painful sitting around the house all day or just going on errands with my mum. The more bored I am, the more frustrated I get, which generally leads to a grumpy Wendy. The loss of my independence is also quite a change. With my car in Canada I could go anywhere, whenever I wanted, whereas here I need to rely on my mum driving me. I for some reason thought that once I got to Mexico I'd be doing something awesome every moment of every day. When this didn't happen, I was a bit glum for a few days, before I snapped out of it and realized that I could make myself busy, and it was going to take a bit of time to establish activities and things to do. Since then, things have picked up. School has started, I have been baking for my family (they were big fans of the chocolate caramel cheesecake and chocolate chip cookies I made), I've been exercising a lot to dispel angst, and my Rotary Spanish lessons are going to start the following Monday. I hope soon to sign up for some sport classes (kickboxing, salsa, Muay Thai, who knows!), and get into regular volunteering. The weekends have certainly been interesting, at least. I have yet to spend a weekend in Tepic which means I've not yet experienced any of the legendary clubs or parties, but on the other hand I've visited Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta!

Puerto Vallarta:

The entire family drove down to Vallarta on Thursday night, and we drove back Sunday night. We stayed in this beautiful hotel called the Bougainvillaea Resort, which was directly on the ocean and had two huge, very artistically designed pools. Most of the weekend was spent dicking around in the pool, getting some cute burn lines from the brilliant sun (on my part, at least), and experiencing some more savoury Mexican cuisine!