San Jose Del Cabo

Here are a few pictures from our time spent in San Jose Del Cabo. We spent almost a week living in the driveway of our friends Jeremiah and Shelly. We really can't thank them enough, as they were so gracious, particularly as they are in the process of beginning to build their own home while living in a trailer and raising two young boys. We feel so fortunate to have such incredible friends.

This picture is out of order, as it is of the wave we surfed during our camping trip with Jeremiah and Shelly. I didn't get it loaded right, though, so you get to see it now. The surf was definitely pretty fun, and bigger than anything else we got on the trip. Although there was a longer right point just around the corner, we did most of our surfing on the peak as we were the only people to surf it, and it was directly in front of the place we were camping.

The older son, Owen. He is two and a half years old, and already exhibiting all the traits of a good engineer. Likes his trucks and "dumpy," organizes all his toys in neat rows, and thanks to a little time in the backyard with yours truly, now enjoys spanning small dirt ravines with small wooden bridges.

And then there's Elias. 9 months old, and this picture really does a fairly good job of capturing his biggest trait, constant movement. When he's not trying to get away, he's looking to get a bit of whatever you might be eating. And the impressive part is that we couldn't find anything he wouldn't eat. He'd even suck on straight limes, and managed a pretty good job of finishing off a whole calzone by himself, (sans cheese), complete with onions, mushrooms and black olives.

Here's a little place in Cabo Jeremiah and Shelly turned us on to. Killer tacos and quesadillas, eight types of salsa, and flan for dessert.

Over the weekend we headed out on the east cape near Cabo to see if we could find a little surf. It was incredibly hot and humid, so shade and beer were in demand. We came prepared for both. Here's Elias, proving once again that if something is going into your mouth, he wants a piece of it too. He even has the fridge and cooler dialed in. As soon as they open he makes a beeline over to see what might come out.

Elias making his "ooh" face. That's the one that really shows how much he wants something.

Here's Owen. I really have to say how good both of these kids are, and how encouraged we were to see Jeremiah and Shelly and their obvious parenting skills. We took notes.

Here's the whole family, cooking dinner on the beach. Although Jeremiah and I tried our best to spear some dinner as well, it always seemed like the water was perfectly clear when we were out surfing, but all clouded up and messing when we were out swimming around. Oh well, maybe next time. I probably would have shot something poisonous anyway.

A friendly family of burros that new how to work the handout wagon. They were well fed, which judging by their amiable disposition, was probably more a result of generous campers than native food sources. Also, it took some serious convincing to get that one from the back of the truck.