He Leadeth me

Post that I wrote yesterday that failed to post.

On Sunday, I got a great massage right off the street. As I was lying face down, listening to the traffic noise, being a bit uncomfortable about the lack of privacy and wondering how this will be, all of a sudden I realized that the music was all Hymns. The 1st song was, He Leadeth Me.

I may or may not, confess at the end of the week, just how many massages I will have had.

So far each day we have taken the bus into town.


We walk, look at our map and walk some more. I would Not want to be driving on these streets. It's crazy.

This morning, we went into town around 8:00, for breakfast, walk part of the Malecon, rest on the beach briefly then came back to our place. We ate left overs for lunch.

Tonight, Wil had Seafood soup and I had Shrimp Al Pastor taco's.

Views from our room






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Mexico

Great Mango Margarita's!



Great food!



Great place to stay!



Thursday night, the 11th, my Dad had a rough night and I had some apprehensions about this trip. Hospice made some changes on Friday and Dad gave us his blessings to go.

We drove to Chicago Friday evening and our flight left early Saturday morning. We arrived in Puerto Vallarta in the afternoon, only to Discover that you can't use an INterra Card in Mexico. They let us use our credit card to pay for our taxi. It started us out on a bad foot but fortunately we had some cash along and were able to exchange that. We have a great restaurant right where we stay, so we can charge that all to our card.

Melissa told us what # to call for American Express and so today, we got more cash.

Our room the 1st 2 nights was a bit of a disappointment but ok. We couldn't keep our deck doors open because it went right out to the pool where there were screaming children. Today, they moved us to the 7th floor, where our view is breath taking. I actually got tears as I sat on the couch and took in the view.

Today and yesterday we took the bus to Old town and downtown and walked until we could almost no longer walk. You could get massages on almost every street. I have already enjoyed two of them!


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Henry update on 11/3

Different people told me they keep checking my blog for updates on my Dad. I took off work a few hours so Mom could go to Sylvia Yoder's, funeral. So as I sit here and Dad's sleeping, I'm trying to decide how I can best tell you how Dad is.

A couple weeks ago, he was weak enough that I didn't feel good about leaving on Nov. 12th for our week long vacation to Mexico that we planned in March. Wil, kindly cancelled that vacation. Now this past week, he seems to be somewhat stronger and you might say more irritable at times. Norm and Carol also have plans to be gone that week, but their schedule isn't as easy to change as ours. However, It's much easier for me to take off work when they are off, but, if we would both be gone, Ann would be Mom's only night relief. Of course, then you also factor in the fact, that it's hard to enjoy a vacation when you always wonder how Dad is doing.

My sister, Ann had an interesting experience with Dad, during the early hours last Sunday morning. She sensed Dad was dying and also sensed our sister, Ruthie in the room. When Dad woke up, he said, "I thought I was dying". She told him, that she thought too that he was.

Us girls have been taking turns spending the night with Dad to give mom a break.

I didn't get this posted yesterday. I ended up spending the night with Dad and was up every 1-2 hrs. except for one 3 hr. stretch.

Tonight we are looking to see if we could possibly go to Mexico after all. I still have mixed feelings about it.

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