The countdown is over.
The trip has been made! We can’t
believe that we are already back in Guatemala after our trip to Bakersfield and
we feel like the time went by so quickly.
When we first got there we would tell people that we had a whole month
to do things and it felt like it would last forever. The last week we were there we thought to
ourselves, where did the time go? It was
a great trip overall and it was so good for everyone to get to meet Mario and
vice verse.
We arrived at LAX around 1:00AM on Sunday, April 1 and my
mom and sister Becky were there to pick us up.
The trip home was not very eventful because at that hour of the night
there is really nothing to see so we spent most of the time catching up. The next day (well it was really still
Sunday, but we felt like it should have been another day) we went to lunch with
most of my family at Los Hermanos, one of my favorite Mexican restaurants. Mario got introduced to everyone at once and
Nathan, my nephew, even saved Mario a spot right next to him. It was good food, something I had been
wanting for a while, and even better conversation with all my family
together!
After lunch we headed back to my sister Leann’s house to
hang out and we ended up going on a tour of Bakersfield to show Mario the
beauty it has to offer!
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| Mom and Mario on the Bluffs |
The first full week we were there was Spring Break so it
worked out perfectly that we got to hang out with my mom extra time during the
week. Erin, Matt, and Liam were also in
town and Denise, Levi, and Andrew even came down to visit. It was so much fun hanging out with my girls
Layne, Erin, and Denise and seeing Erin and Denise’s babies! I love how each one of them is such a good
mama and I also loved that Mario not only got to meet them, but he got to play
with their babies too.
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| Mario, Levi and Liam |
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| Mario and Levi |
We also got the chance to go out with my Uncle Leroy and
Aunt Lynnie and watch them train their dogs.
It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun out there with them. We introduced Mario to the idea of bird dogs,
and he even got dinner out of it! They use Chucker to train the dogs and my
Uncle Leroy decided to shoot a few so that Mario could get the full
experience. They cleaned the birds right
then and there and Mario took the meat home to prepare for dinner. Mario said that Chucker breast tastes a lot
like chicken!
What is a trip to Bakersfield without Sno Shack?!? We got our first one with Nathan and Elisabeth. It was just as good as I
remembered!
There is definitely waaaaay more to post and I will get it up ASAP! Thanks for reading!
