Monday morning neither of us wanted to get up early...unfortunitly I did and Casey was luck and slept till 11. We packed a bit and then made a game plan: We would try to go to Jasmine's school to meet her there to say goodbye and also film an intro to our main movie about the trip. We took a cab over to her school, meet up with her, had some coffee, filmed some awesome fotos, said bye and good luck to her exam, took some hilarious pictures, and took 2 different buses back to the house.
After that we finished packing, had a good lunch, and got ready for the trip. Senora Munoz got to come with her son fabvian. I was able to hang out with her family a few times last trip but this time I was just too busy. I also got to talk to both my mother's brothers that live and workin in Puerto Viarta. A possible hot spot for next year? We will find out.
We took off, but before going strait to the bus station, we stopped by Don Vino, the best place to get any alcohol bottles. I went strait to the Tequila and found what I was looking for: Casco Viejo Reposado Tequila in a liter bottle. I ended up bying that liter bottle, the same stuff in a pint and a pint of Don Pedro rum. We were so happy. We got it in our small bags and went to the bus. Then we took off for USA!
I couldnt sleep. Like at all. The movies werent that bad for the most part. But I just couldnt sleep. I wanted to work out in the morning to do my monday work out but just figured to take it easy and pack since I didnt have much time. So I had all this energy and couldnt sleep. We left at 8:50 from Aguascalientes and made it to Reynosa at 8:30. We were able to find the 8:40 bus before our 9:30 one. So we took that and got to the border.
Two big things happened: both of them involve me getting ripped off.
1. This one wasnt so bad...compared to the other one. I didnt get my passport stamped. It didnt have to. It was just scanned through the computor since I have the new chip passport...in other words, that guy got a free coffee on our way up for nothing. I had it scanned when I went back the first time and got it scanned again! What a looser. But this I could forgive
2. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!...ok. Let me explain. We didnt know what to do with the tequila. We moved them into the bigger bags. We were told that sometimes they ask to look in your bag, sometimes not. Too bad we didnt switch from Mexican Mode to USA Mode. We got there...no medal detector, so random bag check...but there was a bag check. "Sir, do you have any form of Alcohol in these bags?" "Yes Sir." "Take them over to that counter so you can pay the tax on them." Ok...fine now. Too bad I didnt think ahead. I was so unsure of what was going on. I didnt know if he knew how many bottles I had or what would happened if I didnt show them all or anything. I just didnt know. So when we got there we took out our collection and even showed him are giant plastic collector's bottle. The dude was not very nice. In fact, the perfect adjetive for him is bitchy. There is no other word for this. He was just being bitchy. Well, he was filling out the forms for the alcohol tax when he ask, "So how old are you guys?" I couldnt lie..."19." "And you?" "19." This look of rage folded out of his face as his eyes grew an extra 10 mm in diamater and his face turned the colour of a cherry and his focus of a bull lunging for that red cape as he said "Well you guys have no business whatsoever carring these liquids!" Then he tore open the bags and wrote out a little confinding sheet. I was about to ask him if he had ever gone to college but figure that would mean trouble. A better question was weather boarder patrol was the job that all the want-a-be cops who didnt make it were sent at. But I figured I shut my mouth. Casey and I pulled a few jokes and made remarks about my father being dissapointed. But this man, like I said, was of no humor whatsoever. He was seriosly a bitch. And he stole my tequila. I told him I heard it was very good tequila, but I hadnt tried it, and I offered him to try it. I made a dreadfull smile as he unsealed the caps to pour them out....Dang I wanted to reach over the counter, slap him in the face and run with my Tequila! You guys dont know how good this stuff is! Ask Casey! He was just converted on this trip. This stuff is awesome! But he gave us the slip with an evil stair, we walked back to the bus and sat down silent....Ah! Ahhhh! What a looser! Thinking back over it, we should have split the tequila. We could have done 1 of 2 things. A) we could have put the small bottles in our pockets so that those would be unkown to them or B) when we were asked to pay the tax we could have only brought out the small ones to keep the full liter. Either way we blew it, we knew it, and we wanted out tequila back! I was so mad that the first thing I did was go online on my phone and look up the Casco Viejo Reposado Tequila. It cost 4 times as much! Grrr. And I had to get it signed by a full adult and garbage. I have like no money and I was so tempted to click the "complete order" button. But I didnt. I will have to wait. I was so mad. I wanted to hurt someone. But I felt bad because one guy on the bus was missing a leg and another guy was walking around with crunches. So I held my head up high and kept my anger inside. I tried to think of other things, like how much the drainage pipes must be enjoying the tequila or how I could have tried some up on the way up but didnt. But that didnt comfort. Especially when I found out the Spurs came back from a 3-2 deficit and beat the New Orleans Hornets to go to the Western Conference Finals. Yes, this day was a sucky day. I should have jsut stayed in Mexico.
Well all, as you guessed we made it back safetly. We will be working hard to add all pictures, slide shows, and videos up for your viewing enjoyment. Please Please PLEASE let your thoughts be heard throughout this MEXICO SPECIAL EDITION blog section. This is for you guys. And I highly strongly completely recommend that you guys go to this San Marcos Fair in Aguascalientes, Mexico at any open opportunity. Thanks guys for sticking around.
Viva Aguascalientes!
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