Vivaaerobus?? leaving from reynosa to veracruz..

Ok so everyone knows (or may know) that I have been wanting to go to Mexico to take the kids, check things out at the ranch and of course let abuela meet her 1st grandson! Well I have been looking for reasonable flights (realy hard) and they are all so expensive. I talked to a lady at Continental today and she said that the ticket for me and my daughter are only 198 a piece roundtrip, but the taxes and fees are alot! Yeah my baby is free, but he has to pay 66 dollars in taxes! Ok, so 1 ticket is 457.67 total, but the ticket part is really on 198.00 and the taxes are 259! That is alot. She said that it is because I am leaving the US and going to Mexico and then coming back to the US from Mexico, entry inspection fee, customs, and all that.
So somehow I came across vivaaerobus.com and I put in my info and leaving from Reynosa, Texas going to Veracruz, Mexico (roundtrip) is ... everyone ready?? 324.00 US dollars! I thought something was wrong with my computer. I had to look at it a long time before I finally realized that it was correct! Does anyone know anything about this airline company? As far as I understand they are strictly in Mexico and also in Las Vegas. So I am sure they have to be safe, you know approved to fly in and out of the US. This is amazing. I can not wait to tell edgar. I can not believe it!
Anyway, I was going to have to drive to Houston, Texas anyway so why not drive the extra 6 hours to McAllen and take a bus to Reynosa and from the bus station in Reynosa take a taxi to the airport. (I am scared about the taxi part- what do the trustworthy taxis look like?) Ok I need some help from some of you that know the area. (new mommy and sunshine... =) please)
Is there anywhere safe in McAllen that I can leave edgars truck? I do not want to take my jeep- it uses to much gas and I have been having a few problems with it. I need a place where I can leave it for about a week and when I come back it will be there and I will have all my tires and windows will still be intact. I would take it to the airport in Reynosa, but it is not in my name. Does that matter , what if he sent a notarized letter with me that I could take it to Mexico for a certain amount of time- would that work? New mommy (gringa-n-mex) I know you work at a hotel somewhere close to the border, do you think the owner would let me leave it there if I paid him if I can not find anywhere to leave it? When I get back I will stay at his hotel one night. (i will bring my own sheets though)
Even if I can, I do not really want to drive into Mexico because I do not know where I am going and I am scared of getting robbed or kidnapped by the cartel (or the police)
Any info. please. If anyone wants to email me they can at crystalita83@gmail.com
Thanks everyone! Viva aerobus!

What is a pulga?

What in the world is a pulga and why does someone do it? Okay my daughter was eating candy and daddy said she needs a pulga to clean out all the veechos. I was like what is that? He said it is something you drink, i guess like a laxative and supposedly you use the bathroom all day long and all the veechos and bad stuff or whatever comes out. What is this really? A colon cleanser?? I am not giving my daughter a colon cleanser at 4 years old, she already looks too skinny to me. So daddy says I am going to pulga baby edgar when he is 18 months old, I was like we are not colon cleansing a 1 year old, he said yeah we are. Well I told him we were not going to because I am scared he will dehydrate, he said everyone needs to do it. I said not being mean or funny, but maybe in Mexico they do it because it is different over there as far as food and water and stuff like that. I am going to make sure he knows not to do that to the baby because I am scared to do that he is still too little. (and will be too little until he is 10 or 11 or older!) I could imagine taking him to the hospital for dehydration and them looking at me like I am stupid and calling the police and child services thinking that I was trying to dehydrate my baby. I have never had a pulga and I am healthy. I think your body naturally gets rid of some things and then later on in life if you feel the need to pulga- have at it, but I am not doing it. If anyone has any helpful info please let me know.

1st post of New Year

I hope everyone had a great New Year.. we did. Not too much going on just working and the usual. Well, we decided that we were not going to have a BIG party for baby edgar, we decided to just have it a chuckie cheese's. does everyone remember that place?? i am actually looking forward to going. we tried to plan something big, but it ended up like we were going to speand way too much and it was like it was more for the adults. so daddy said lets just do something where kids can have fun. i am glad he brought it up because i did not have the heart too. it is his 1st son's birthday and he wanted to celebrate it really big, which i did too, but i could not see myself spending more than 400 on a 1 year old's birthday party when he would probably be asleep half the time or ill because we would have to hold him most of the time. So off to Chuckie Cheese tomorrow, when i went in to pay i saw a few games that i want to play.
well, for everyone who has been following or reading, everyone knows that i have been trying to decide what to do about daddy wanting to go to mexico in february. I have been willing to go- even though i have no clue what i am getting myself into. some told me to take a trip down there, which i would have liked to, but no vacation, i still do not have my passport, etc. well he is not going (we are not going) in february. he is not sure of when he wants to go because of the turck. Thank heavens that the truck is 2002!!! i have never loved a truck so much in my life. A special thanks to all my blog friends who let me know the rules of taking a truck to mexico! we would have gotten all the way down there and been denied and then I would have been coming home alone because I am sure they would have made him go. Thanks!!!! I am not that excited about going to mexico because he lives on a ranch. a freind of mine, who lives across the hall, was with his cousin for a while and then they went to mexico to live on the ranch and she left and went to her house, which was in another part of mexico. she tells me all the time - es un rancho cristal, no hay nada! i am not thinking of how bad it could be because for some reason i have the picture of an american ranch in my mind. you know desert and then i think of the ranch in mexico being like a bunch of huts no power , no stores, cooking over an open fire, no schools, just a poor place. so daddy tells me things about it and his cousin does also. they say they have power, schools , pharmacies and little stores. no police and no banks. No police??? Is it dangerous?? who knows, but hopefully in feb. i will be taking a trip and then the 1st post that i do when i get back will be titled- "Not No..... but hell no"
No, real talk now. there has to be some compromise. i understand that he wants to see his family and he thinks that mexico is the best place in the world, but i am from here and i have been here my whole life. if it was a city i would already be there.
I don't understand what am i suppose to do all day?? what if i get sick or something. what if the kids get sick or something. how am i going to take care of them and myself? i won't be working because we will be in the middle of no where. i understand he is torn also. i am sure it was not on his agenda to come to the US and have a baby with an american, who would not really want to leave the comfort of the US.
Is anyone in immigration process? How is that, is it hard or just a long wait?
Not being nosey to anyone, but I know why some of you other american ladies went to mexico, but is anyone trying to go back? Just asking to maybe picture how long is the immigration process.
Okay a totally new subject, but important- how can i add cute stuff to my blog? it looks so boring to me. I know i need some pics, but other stuff too. thanks