Home is wherever I'm with you

I have a little over two weeks in between the day I leave my job (october 12th) and our big adventure. We are thinking about taking a short trip to Rocky Point to kick off our new freedom. Since the bf's aunt has a house down there we may just drive on down and enjoy the beach for five days or so. A little pre-vacation trip. 

I am so happy to have someone willing to take this dive and put life on hold for a minute. I could not have chosen a better person to have with me. 

I plan on making some fun music videos of clips from the trip and will absolutely be using this song:

Home- By Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

It's a happy, feel good song. Check it out if you have never heard it. 

I saw a few other clips people made that were cute. I will make sure mine is fun and worth while to watch! =)

eco-friendly

One really interesting thing I have learned while doing research on visiting many marine locations (Chankanaab, Xcaret, Xel Ha, and Garrafon) near Cancun is that everywhere requires you to wear biodegradable sunscreen. It is eco-friendly and lacks any ingredients that risk destroying the worlds coral reefs. After reading a few articles on the subject I am extremely happy that Mexico makes this a requirement in their parks.

After getting interested in the subject I starting looking into sunscreen in general and came to find all sorts of other things out. Look in to 2012 Sunscreen to find out about the best and worst sunscreen for 2012. You might find out something you didn't know about a product you are putting on your body for "safety" daily. Check it out!

Cure

Well last night Shane and I attended our friend's Bachelor and Bachelorette parties. I had such a great time, but this morning I am absolutely feeling it. I have no idea how the boyfriend is feeling because he is still sleeping... at 1:15 in the afternoon. 

We had a great time! haha

What on earth does this have to do with our trip??? Well let me tell you. My favorite cure for a hangover is the beach. Something about the sun and floating in the water has always done the trick for me. Unfortunately I am nowhere near the beach right now and the sun feels horrible unless the ocean comes with it. It's a package deal. So I am going to nap all day and dream about being in the ocean :)

Still counting the days.. 

Jungle Speed Boat Tour

Today I stumbled across Jungle Speed Boat Tour's and decided this may be a must. 

You hop in a boat for two, and cruse through a lagoon following a tour guide in and out of mangroves. You make your way out to the Caribbean Sea and stop at a dive spot full of sea life.

Just another fun activity to add to our list of possibilities. 

Count Down

I am up early and sipping on some coffee. I work in an hour and a half, but something is different about this morning. On a regular Monday morning Shane (the boyfriend) would have been at work three and a half hours ago, but this morning he is here with me drinking coffee. Yes folks, he is officially done working until after our getaway. It feels great, but I personally will feel a whole lot better when I can say I don't have to go to work either.

I have 5 weeks left at my job

3 weeks until I put in my two week notice

23 actually "work" days

and 

precisely 32 days left until my last day of work

(for this company)
19 days after my quit date our Yucatan adventure begins

Counting Down

Waterproof

So I have been wanting a under water camera, and so far this is what I have concluded on.
It's a Samsung Waterproof Camcorder. Waterproof / Shock Proof / Dust and Sand Proof!
$119 at Costco!

If anyone has used one or has a better recommendation  your feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Is it really September already?

Is it really September already? I still have so much prep to do and our trip is right around the corner.

Really good tip site I found today was Cancun Assist! If you want to follow in our foot steps and take a little vacation they have a lot of good advice.

As for our lives here at the moment:
Last week I swung by the little cafe I am going to be getting a job at when we get back! I will only be working 7-3 (at the latest, they close at 2) and I will have every Sunday off. That gives me plenty of time to sign up for another job and maybe even take some classes at the local college. As for now, I am still working at my current job and will be putting my notice in late this month.

As for the BF, he has 3 days left at work! His vacation is going to be a little longer then mine but it is well deserved! We have a very long list of things for him to do before/after Mexico:

1. Trim (The house flooded last year so we basically gutted it and redid everything ourselves, except we never did the molding)
2. Yard work (I think there is a jungle growing in our tiny back yard)
3. Roof Coating (On our large list of house projects. We still need to check if its the right time of year to put it on)

and a few mini projects in the house that may involve cleaning, paint, and fixing things here or there.

Obviously some of this can get expensive so we are gonna pick and choose which projects to tackle but I am really excited for the jungle to disappear and that one is free! Yey House Work!!!!