Tales of the Traveling Totes #38 and A Giveaway

Welcome to our 38th edition 

of Tales of The Traveling Tote, 

where our MacKenzie-Childs 

totes take you to all kinds of 

places and on all kinds of adventures.

We spent most of January and 

most of February in Cabo, again, 

so Miss Petit Four, who stays 

down in Cabo, and I will bring 

you along with us, 

Where the weather is amazing 

this time of year and the sunrises 

and sunsets are spectacular.  

Miss Petit Four and I did a little

refreshing of our flowers in 

the kitchen as they had yellowed 

with time. 

We spent New Years by ourselves 

as we watched fireworks from 

all sides coming from resorts 

and private homes. 

We enjoyed a lot of good food 

together like this shrimp molcajete,

from one of our favorite Mexican 

restaurants, Guacamayas,

before our guests arrived. 

We entertained three separate 

groups, the first one was our 

oldest daughter and her family 

and one of her brother in law's 

family. 

With this many teenage mouths 

to feed I made three batches of 

ice cream a day to treat them.  

This was a chocolate Oreo.  

I brought down an ice cream 

machine in my biggest suitcase 

and it gets used and used. 

Click here to see the ice cream 

machine I am in love with.

We have one at home and in 

Cabo and at Lake Powell.  They 

have more than paid for themselves. 

One of our grandsons caught this 

big Dorado.  He brought the meat 

home and we made fish tacos and 

fish in a lemon sauce.  It was fun 

to see the kids want to eat it.  

We were able to freeze the rest 

and bring it home for him. 

They spent most of the day in the pool and a lot of time at the swim up bar. 

We celebrated my birthday at 

The Montage Resort at Marea 

with a cold seafood tower and 

the best lobster I have ever had. 

Our next group of friends 

arrived a few days after my birthday 

and we were off to breakfast at 

one of our favorite places, The Office. 

The Office is where you can 

take your shoes off and run 

your toes through the sand.  

Miss Petit Four got to come 

along, carrying my beach 

necessities. 

She also got to come onboard 

while I played photographer 

for one of the couples that 

wanted to parasail. 

We had dolphins swimming 

in the pool, 

and whales breaching!  

These guys are a lot of fun! 

Why not celebrate all month 

when you are born in January?!!

Our architect and his wife arrived 

the next week on her birthday.  

We celebrated by going to a couple 

of her favorite restaurants for two 

days and also going to the spa 

at Villa La Estancia resort.

Lucky Miss Petit Four got to come 

along too.  Even though it wasn't 

our architect's birthday, we gifted 

him some lobster sandals, 

since he loves lobster as much 

as we do.  His wife, the birthday 

girl, doesn't like seafood at all. 

Happy Valentine's Day and hubby 

gifted all of the rest of the 

incoming guests with heart shaped 

sunglasses and chocolates.

We ate Valentine's Dinner at 

one of our favorite Italian 

restaurants in Cabo, La Dolce. 

The women held their roses 

from hubby and wore the 

pajamas I had gifted them 

at Christmas. 

Meanwhile back in Utah, 

our oldest granddaughter 

opened her mission call for 

our church, The Church of Jesus 

Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

She is leaving in June for 

Lima, Peru!  She will serve for 

18 months and will pay her own 

way.  She is posing here with 

her siblings and parents.  They 

were the family that were our first 

group of guests here in January. 

Our last couple joined us on 

two days later.  They are the 

couple on the left.  We attended 

Church on Sunday and experimented 

with Google Translate.  I took 7 years 

of Spanish, but have forgotten so 

much over the years.  I can speak 

enough to get us around, but 

listening to talks at church is a 

little harder.  We had great success 

with Google Translate.

We had fun every morning 

walking through the neighborhood, 

which is all hills.  One morning I 

even took them downtown, which 

is downhill all the way, but then 

uphill going back.  They all made it!

Half of us went up to 

Los Cerritos surf beach 

one day, and then while 

the most avid boogie boarders 

stayed at the beach, we went 

on to Todos Santos to the 

famed 

Hotel California.

It is a beautiful restaurant, and 

not associated with the famous 

song, but worth the drive 

for these massive nachos.

We always have to take our 

iconic photo in the pool 

with the ocean behind.

Although we entertained 

three groups and had a lot of 

fun, January and February 

had five funerals of close 

friends and family.  We were 

able to attend most of them.  

Our hearts were heavy for 

those who lost their loved ones. 

So glad Miss Petit Four and I 

could entertain you too.  

We always have lots of fun 

visitors for our 

Tales of the Traveling Tote 

posts. Now for our giveaway: 

Please visit Debbie 

and leave a comment 

to win this To Go Tote - 

how cute is this?  

And then visit our other 

Travelers to see where 

they have been off to this 

quarter.

 Debbie with Miss Aurora @ Mountain Breaths 

Emily with Miss Courtney Childs@ The French Hutch

 Patti with Miss Kenzie @ Pandora's Box  

Jenna with Miss Coquille @The Painted Apron

Linda P with Miss Lola @ Life and Linda

Rita with Miss Luna C @ Panoply 

Sarah with Miss Merri Mac @ Hyacinths for the Soul

Jackie and Miss Madi K @ Purple Chocolat Home (you are here)

Ricki Jill and Countess De Monet @ The Sketchy Reader