and it went wonderfully. really.
we haven't had her party yet, that happens tomorrow night. and bean is spending the night with bff at the farm. hmmmm... farm.
i got my mom great gifties though. a clear green glass vase, a hand blown glass multi colored vase both second hand, some of the rose body cream i mentioned in an earlier post. and i washed her car and vacuumed the interior. which i must say it was in dire need of. the water from the rio grande isn't the cleanest water. not even close. and after a while it kinda started to stink. for anyone who doesn't know we rescued some tourists from the american side of the river (that sounds so weird, american side. as if the river knows which side of an imaginary border you live on or what language you speak.) then of course, we got trapped after dropping off the tourista's. we waited it out in teralingua.
View Larger Map, which is even a more desolate empty "town" then marathon. which no electricity and no phone. and a pre teen boys a teen boy, me and an old lady. but it was fun. we just wandered around. the boys ran around, and my mom and i sat on a restaurant in the dark and had a beer. eventually it stopped raining enough so we could drive through the dark flooded desert towards home base.
and because murphy's law finds humor where i wouldn't necessarily find it. we got stopped by the border guards and after no kidding a 100 questions, the only legal one was if we were american citizens, let us go, soaking wet in rio grande water, cold, hungry and very very late.
well worth it though. well worth it.
my dad who lives near the border has a fabulous youtube video up you all should watch. try to ignore the chickens and roosters crowing in the background.
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