There have been all kinds of comings and goings here at the Rainbow Trailer Park. That's really the name of where we stay here in Mérida, conjures up all kinds of associations.

(Tortuga and Ciao Baby hanging together at the Rainbow Trailer Park)

Anyway, we had been awaiting the arrival of another Lazy Daze owner, Tessa and her 3 kids in Ciao Baby.

They say that people that own Lazy Daze RVs are cult-like in our devotion to them and most of us give them a name. Most of you know ours is named Tortuga, commonly called Tuga for short. Tessa named theirs Caio Baby and promptly took her kids out of school and took off for over a year to see the world. They've already been north to the Arctic circle and now they are heading south to Panama. After that, Europe and perhaps China. You can follow this portion of their trip on their blogs here.

They were here for a whirlwind 3 days and we had a great time with them. Tessa took some wonderful pictures, I'm using some of them. Of course, she doesn't appear in them and even this picture that I took of all of us having ice cream on the plaza grande, Tessa is kind of hidden behind Mimi. You'll have to go to her blog to see this incredibly dynamic woman. Her kids are really wonderful as well, interesting and adventurous and obviously having an incredible trip that they will always remember. What a fanatastic thing to do for your children!

We've met some really wonderful people here in Mérida and John and Mary are two of the best. We've become good friends and when they are in town, we try and see them as much as possible. This trip, their daughter and her boyfriend came down for Thanksgiving.

(Mary, John, Mark & Lisa)

Mark and Lisa wanted to see the Caribbean coast so we gave them the keys to our condo in Akumal and off they went. Well!! Mark proposed to Lisa up in the crow's nest at the Buena Vida just down the beach and they are now engaged! Much celebrating ensued when they returned! We took Tessa and the kids over to meet them and see their beautiful house.

Which takes me off on yet another tangent. A couple days ago, Henry got a call that he had won both first and second place in the Architectural Digest of México annual awards for renovation. This is a huge award and he flew off to Mexico City for the award dinner. It turns out, the 2nd place award was for John and Mary's house. See how this all ties together?

But anyway, here's a picture of our whole week kind of summed up. All of us (except Tessa of course cuz she took the picture) at John & Mary's celebrating the engagement of Mark and Lisa, the visit of Tessa with Charles, Jazy and Lia, and Henry's awards too!

Whew! I'm tired.