A little more about us.....

Vince and I both have busy full-time jobs that we enjoy....Vince with the Ministry of Health as an Environmental Health Officer and I am an Office Manager at a private company.  Our youngest son is in grade 9, middle son is in second year university striving for a degree in Physics and our oldest is out on his own and working hard.  Each day is filled from start to finish so.....

....We love our Mexico holidays......it all started back in 1999, when we took our first holiday to Mexico and stayed for 2 wonderful weeks at the all-inclusive Iberostar Tucan resort, just south of Playa del Carmen.  One look at that gorgeous blue ocean and we were in love!

We had already been on several holidays to California and loved relaxing and wine-tasting in Santa Barbara, but Mexico was a whole new adventure.  We had no sooner returned from our 1st Iberostar visit when we began planning the next holiday.  We returned to the Iberostar Tucan again in 2000 and then tried a new Iberostar in 2001, the Iberostar Paraiso del Mar.  It was during a visit to the Iberostar in 2002 that we took a day trip to Isla Mujeres, a small island just off the mainland near Cancun.  Wow....now this is a relaxing place!  We added Isla Mujeres to our holiday list!

Over the next few years, our holidays were shared between the Iberostar and Isla Mujeres.  In some ways they are the complete opposite of each other, but they both offer us the relaxation and fun that we look for on our holidays.  We've also enjoyed sharing these special places with our sons.

We are lucky to be able to go to Mexico for 3-4 weeks each February and then we also try to go again in August for our wedding anniversary.  Mexico holidays are cheaper and way more fun than marriage counselling!

So, this blog will be a lot about...planning for Mexico and being in Mexico....our favourite home away from home!