The Trip to Rocky Point (2)

On the second day, Mommy, Rebecca and Gabby got up around 8:00 am (Mexico time). Daddy got up a little later than them. They had cupcakes for breakfast. After breakfast, they worked out a plan for the day. Rebecca wrote it down on a piece of paper. “She is a planner!” Mommy thought.

They went to the beach for a walk first. It was a short walk. After that, they went to the closest ATV rental booth. The rent was $20/hr at first. After bargaining, it was reduced to $18/hr. QiQi, KaiKai and Albert's families came with them.

ATV is the abbreviation for All-Terrain Vehicle. ATVs come in many different shapes and sizes. The different types of ATVs are designed and manufactured for different off-road applications including racing, recreation, hunting, ranching, military, emergency services and agriculture. Just about anything you can think of. The type the families rented that day was a 4-wheel drive utility ATV. At Rocky Point Resort Area, people ride that type of ATV in a wild area for fun. They saw many booths for ATV rental.

The ATV can allow two people to ride at the same time. Daddy and Rebecca rode first. Daddy was the operator who sat at the front. Rebecca sat at the back. About 35 minutes later, they came back. “It was fun!” Rebecca said. It was Gabby’s turn to ride, but she didn’t want to. So Mommy took her turn. She sat at the back, and Daddy was still the operator. Mommy was a little nervous in the beginning, but got used to it shortly. It gave her a thrilling feeling when the ATV drove down from a slope or jumped over a lump. Mommy discovered that she and Daddy had to do jumping at the same time. If not, the jump would made them uncomfortable. They did quite a few jumps. “It was fun!” Mommy agreed with Rebecca. While waiting, Rebecca, Gabby and other kids were playing with sand by the booth. Mommy joined them after she came back. They made a sand pyramid.

After that, the families came to the downtown area for lunch. Daddy, Mommy and Gabby rode in Albert's car. Rebecca rode in QiQi's car. Gabby was very talkative on the way. “Abre! Say Abre!” Most of the time she was talking to herself. They came to a restaurant facing the street. Tables were setup in an area like a patio. People can see everything on the street from their tables. The kitchen was at the other side of the patio area. People can watch the cook cooking. They ordered Tacos. There were all kinds of Tacos. They ordered pork, beef and fish (shrimp was not available that day). Those Tacos were the yummiest Tacos Mommy had eaten. The tortillas were thin and soft. The meat was juicy and yummy. The only thing Mommy wanted to complain about was the long time they waited for their food. They waited so long that Gabby became fussy.

After lunch, the families came to the market place. It was on a street by the ocean. There were many stores on both sides of the street selling crafts, cheap jewelries and clothes. This type of market place is often seen in China, too. The fish market Daddies visited the day before was also in that area. Mommy wanted to buy some paintings or posters like those she saw in their condo, but didn’t see any. They bought some seashells, a seashell craft which was very cute, and a toy guitar which looked like a real one. At a store, Rebecca saw a ballerina figurine made of seashells. It was very cute. Maybe she and Mommy could make one like that using the seashells they picked at the beach someday. They bought ice cream at a store. Gabby cried after Daddy gave her ice cream cone a big bite. “It’s missing pieces.” She said. Mommy thought it was cute of Gabby to use the words she learned from the Dora Explorer series in that situation.

On the way back to the Resort, they got lost again (Rebecca didn't agree because she rode in QiQi's car and they didn't get lost). Gabby fell asleep in the car after she finished her ice cream cone. After returning to the Resort, Daddy and Rebecca went swimming at the pool. Mommy stayed with Gabby (who was sleeping) at the room. When they came back, Rebecca told Mommy she played the water slides. She played both the small one and the big one, but she liked the big one better. She slid down with head and hands first sometimes. She met KaiKai at the pool and they slid down together. Rebecca held KaiKai’s feet. With heads first, they slid down and splashed when they hit the water. Rebecca felt like she was a mermaid while she was sliding down. It was fun!

For dinner Mommy cooked the fish Daddy bought the day before, green beans and egg soup. They had a potluck dinner at Albert’s. After dinner, they played for a while at Albert’s. Rebecca and her friends were playing hide and seek. Gabby was running after them. Daddy was singing Karoke. Mommy was watching kids playing and Daddy singing.

It was time for bed. Daddy, Mommy, Rebecca and Gabby said Good-Bye to other families and came back to their condo. Rebecca felt sad and began to cry. Mommy knew that feeling. When she was a child, she had that feeling sometimes. It happened at Chinese New Year time when all her brothers and sisters’ families came to visit. They stayed for a few days and then left. She felt sad when they left. It was a mixture feeling of emptiness and missing them. “You are homesick.” Mommy said to Rebecca. She lay down by Rebecca’s side on the couch bed. After Rebecca felt asleep, she went to the big bed to sleep.

On the next day Daddy would take Rebecca to go fishing on the ocean and it would be fun.