So this post is about a month over due, but with so much going on I have just kept putting it off until now. Anyhoo after a long long year of going through three facilitators, two immigration lawyers, and a ridiculous amount of international mail and paperwork I finally have my dual citizenship with Mexico. I am now officially a Mexican citizen and I couldn't be prouder.

Dia De Los Muertos Oct 27, Day of the Pets

Fun fact about Mexico, well Puerto Vallarta at least. You can grow your own pineapple plant/s here! The climate is perfect for it. The warm sunny days and constant humidity make great conditions for growing lots of fruits. What we learned about pineapples is that all you have to do is twist the top off, then stick that sucker in some water til it gets roots, or even pop in straight in the dirt. Then just water it once or twice a week and boom pineapples will grow. It is kinda a bummer that it takes at least two years to actually get a pineapple off it, but still very cool that anyone can actually grow them. The most popular fruits that you'll find people growing in their yards here are pineapple, avocado, mangos, papayas, and bananas. All easily grown because this is the perfect climate for them. At this point our pineapple plant is about two months old. Only 22 more months til we can take taste sweet sweet fruit lol. - Nolan

Playa Listo (or Beach Ready) is our newest adventure!

It's crazy the way life works sometimes. Not even two years ago I'd never have even imagined we'd be living in Mexico. Ten years ago Mexico wasn't even a place I wanted to visit lol. Now here we are living in Mexico for the last 9 months, and we just moved into a more Mexicoy part of Mexico lol. We are still technically in Puerto Vallarta, but we are now out of the city and into the jungle! It's all kinda crazy the way it happened. Bridget met a guy on the plane on her flight back from the US, they made friends, he invited us to breakfast at his house, he happened to be renting the lower half of the house, and now were we are living in a Mexican jungle lol. 

There is a local volunteer group here that helps shelter dogs. They go to the shelter twice a week to walk the pups and they hold adoption days at a nearby mall. They needed more volunteers for an adoption day event. Their ask was for people to come and "sit with one of the dogs up for adoption" for 3 hours. Santi and Osa were the names of the two dogs Nolan and I were paired with for the day. There was precious little sitting that day. This sweet, but rambunctious, duo were so fun to spend time with. For dogs that have spent months in a shelter, they were remarkably well behaved. There were a couple of times that a mutually loved toy caused a skuffle between them, but other than that, they were total loves. There was the unfortunate incident (despite us taking them outside a couple of times) that Osa pooped loud and proud and Santi created an impressive puddle; all in the middle of the mall. Best part of that was the volunteers that weren't manning dogs themselves, ran over to clean the messes up while we all got slink away. Hehehe The day was long, and we were as worn out as the dogs by the end of it, but 10 out of 10 I would recommend. Great way to spend an afternoon. ~Bridget