When pregnant, head to Mexico, of course!

It's starting to become a knack of my husbands' that when I'm pregnant, he takes the family to Mexico. When Micro was just 17 months or so and I was about 6.5 months pregnant, we went to Cancun for summer vacation. Yeah, it was super hot, humid, and hard. But I survived! This time around, since I'd be 7.5 months pregnant and now with two active kids, we opted for something a bit closer and didn't require much flying time. Cabo San Lucas it was!

We left just two days after Micro finished Kindergarten. I was tired from the entire week of school activities and we attended a graduation party the day before. Our flight the next day was early. I packed a few days in advanced and still I forgot to bring a few important things. This pregnancy is going by fast and I'm all belly. Which makes it so difficult to get around. I'm short, have no torso, and so there's no room but for this baby to stick waaay out. Though we had to take two short flights (we used Southwest points to fly us all out), it was still really hard to feel somewhat comfortable flying at this stage of pregnancy. Is there actually a comfortable stage of pregnancy? The frequent trips to the loo and losing more interior space in a plane were quite an adjustment. Thankfully, people are generally more understanding and kinder when they see my belly and I take advantage of whatever that offers me. 

Don't get me wrong, I was happy to get away. No matter how hard traveling is while heavily pregnant, I still would do it. It's to keep my wanderlust satiated and a great start to summer.

What surprised me most about Cabo was the dessert feel. You could easily mistake the area for Arizona. Dried up river beds, cacti everywhere, rocky brown hills, it certainly wasn't what I expected. But I shouldn't have been surprised since we were a thousand miles from the California deserts anyway. There's one major highway and if you take the toll road it's much faster to reach all the hotels between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas.