Our courtyard with Virgin of Guadalupe

We have started packing! I can’t believe how well it is going, too. I have packed two boxes of books, one of kitchen things, and one of vases & breakables. I can see one more box of bathroom things, one more kitchen box, and another for our home office. All of our clothes and bedding is going in plastic bags in the car top cargo box.

It feels so real now that the place is strewn with packing materials and things that didn’t make the cut.

This morning we were talking about buying bedding for the master bedroom before we head down – and we plan on having a king size bed for the first time ever! We decided we will have a cool color – something blue. We may head out this afternoon and look for some bedding just to torture ourselves further…

And then, this morning I got an email from my sister in the Bay Area telling me about an article on Mazatlan in the Sunday paper. It’s all about the revival of Mazatlan’s centro and made me want to be there right now!