House photos and trip home

Hard to believe we are leaving.  We have had such a great time.

The last few days I took pictures of the house. Hard to believe we are leaving today.

Front door entrance

Left of entrance leading to private upstairs and private music room doors on left

Library/living room

Main bedroom

Formal Dining Room, not used by us once

Kitchen

Wendy Office, also the room where we had most of our meals

Second bedroom

And the outdoor area where we spent the majority of our afternoons.

We saw hummingbirds daily visiting these flowers

Palm tree that dropped 2 huge palms into the pool

Finish the last minute packing and lug everything outside for our 6AM pickup. At 6AM I get an email that the Uber has been cancelled because my method of payment is not valid, my method of payment is cash!  Anyway change my payment to credit card and this does not work.  Now we have to find a taxi to get us to the airport.  We are on a very busy street but it is 6AM so not so many around.  There is a taxi waiting area around the corner from us, but none there at this time of day.  Wendy walked across the street to the hotel but they would not call one for her, they said they would only call for guests in case something happened, what a stupid policy.  While Wendy was in the hotel Andre managed to flag a taxi and called through the open window that he had one, yeah first issue of the day solved. 

This taxi is a metered taxi, first one of these we have seen.  We think he started the meter as soon as Andre flagged him down as it had time running when we got in, oh well.  No seat belt in the back for Wendy, she is sharing the back seat with some of the luggage.  Not much traffic on the road so it is a pretty quick drive.  We hit a red light right outside the airport and are stopped for about 30 seconds.  WE realize the driver doesn’t start again, Andre pokes him in the leg, he has fallen asleep!  So glad we are at the light to turn into the airport, not much further to go!

Yesterday when Wendy tried to check in online it said her ID wasn’t valid and we had to do it at the airport.  Tried to use a kiosk and got a paper out that check in had to be done at the counter.  There are not too many people here so didn’t take long.  Give our passports and are told we missed our flight, it was at 6AM, what? I checked online yesterday and everything was fine, today I only checked that the departure time hadn’t changed.  She looked again and said, no you didn’t miss your flight it is only on Tuesday.  I showed her my phone that we had a new reservation for today, it is not in the computer that way.  Anyway phone call to Air Canada in Mexico, then a phone call to Air Canada in Saint John and it is eventually sorted, sounds like whoever made the change did not hit the accept button, I am so glad we were at the airport early. 

Merida airport

Houses painted in many colours. Not allowed to have the same colour as your neighbour. 

New constructions, yuck

Landing in Mexico city

Lots of helipads

Cemetery, did not make it to the one in Merida, will need to return

A bit smoggy

On our way to Toronto

Mississippi river

somewhere in the US. The city looks like a shark.

Back in Canada

Toronto

Uneventful flights home, the last hour into Moncton was really bumpy and rough.  Lots of fog and we heard that many flights had been cancelled.  In Mexico City we saw bags go by that were tagged to Moncton, on our last flight we figured out they were from the foreign workers coming to work in the plants for the summer. 

Andre went to pick up the car by taxi while I waited for our luggage.  A whole bunch of names were paged to go to the luggage window, I was the only one that went over, the LeBlanc that was paged was not us.  There were so many papers already filled out waiting for people to come over, their luggage did not make it onto the plane because of weight and balance.  Back to the luggage carousel, only one batch of luggage came around and then they turned it off.  At this point I knew to move very quickly back to lost luggage window, there was about to be a big line up.  Moving quickly paid off, I was first in line and didn’t take long to do the paperwork.  So our last crisis of the day is done. 

We absolutely loved Merida.  If you like the arts/music this is a fantastic city to visit.  This would be one city I would definitely look at spending much more time in at retirement.  We were so busy we never even played one game of crib this time! Until next trip…

Tuesday now, we just got a phone call that our luggage is being delivered today.  Good thing as we leave on Saturday to Dominican Republic and most of our summer clothes is in those suitcases!