Thanks in Mexico

248. for bluest ocean


249. for wide white beach


250. for shallow pools perfect for little non-swimmers


251. for warm sun


252. for bright flowers in March!


253. for little girl walking with her daddy


254. for morning breakfast, just My Hero and I, relaxed, quiet, calm...while three noisy ones follow morning adventures with doting grandparents


255. for morning coffee


256. for pastries drizzled with dulce de leche


257. for 5 year old taking Spanish lessons by the pool


258. for used plates and empty wrappers swept away by smiling waiters almost before we're done with them


259. for "hola" and "buenos dias" and every kind greeting offered by maids and hotel workers every time we pass them in the hallways


260. for the lovely lengua del cielo spoken all around us


261. for the quiet hours of naptime in darkened hotel room


262. for chapters of Grandfather Frog before naptime in which neither Longlegs the Blue Heron nor Whitetail the Marsh Hawk breakfast on a sleepy Grandfather Frog thanks to Jerry Muskrat's warning tail-slap on the water


263. for white marble floors and clean soft white beds


264. for long walks across beaches and sleepy kids melting like ice cream in the hot sun into puddles of sleeping mounds to be scooped into arms of family and carried the rest of the way