Margie and Sam came to visit, because in her words, "it'd been two months!"  It was Sam's first time back in almost two years though.  They came bearing gifts, including clothes and shoes (natch), a little folding chair, and a ramp with toy cars.  They stayed ten days, most of which were rainy.  One of the days...

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Last year I didn't say much about the actual Halloween holiday here in Cancun.  As a general rule, the closer you are to the US border, the more Halloween you get.  The further south you go, the more Dia de Muertos you get.  In Mexico City it was a nice mix of the two holidays.  If anything, Mexican kids took our holiday and...

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