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Driving to Monterrey
May 19, 2013
We started in Oklahoma where I live at 8am, dropped off my baby girl in Abilene Texas, went on to Laredo Texas got here at 12:30 am and slept in Laredo at the doctors hospital.....yes in the car in the parking lot, I felt very safe being here and my car is quite comfy, we got up at 6am and drove to the border, here is where I became VERY nervous (for no reason too), paid a $3 toll charge here, was told to pull over to the side which I more than gladly agreed to, had to get out of the car me and my auntie joy along with about 7 other vehicles, they looked around the vehicle a little, didn't open any bags, had a small truck slowly go beside all the vehicles (this truck was scanning the vehicles for something, drugs, guns.....your guess is as good as mine lol), we was then waved on through, next stop was just a hair down the road at the actual Mexican crossover where we stopped to declare our stuff, just in case and I needed to get a permit for my car in order to take it across the border as well as a temporary permit for me and my auntie so we could go into Mexico, my espanol is nada so they found someone who figured out what we needed and a very nice mexican man took us around the corner a few miles actually lol to the appropriate place to obtain our permits and stuff, we was asked to provide our passport cards, picture ID, my car title proving it was free of liens and in my name, as well as the tag number, then i had to pay a $200 holding fee just in case I decide I'm not bringing my car back lol.....ummmmm I don't think that's a hike I'm willing to take lol. I then was pointed in the right direction to get to Monterrey by the Mexican man and I sent him on his way with a $12 tip, best $12 I spent in my entire life, he saved us hours of HELL. From this point on my GPS worked remarkably well and never took me the wrong way, the roads although they had some potholes weren't as bad as I expected, I have seen worse in some areas of Oklahoma lol. The roads had butterflies everywhere and I'm not talking a few I am talking 1000's everywhere for miles and miles, there were even men on the sides of the road doing something with them. I did see people walking on the sides of the road, more than we would see in my part of the USA, I'm sure some of the bigger cities have people walking the streets a lot there also though. I then went through another check point where I got the red light again, GRRRR, pulled to the side, a lady walks up,I tell her I don't speak. Lick of Spanish, she gets a guy who doesn't speak a lick of English lol, he motions for me to open the trunk which I willingly do, I have two enormous bags (one of which is full of nothing but food), a case of water back there, my auntie's purse, a pillow And a few other things. He looks at the water and says picnic and I say no surgery, he had no clue what I was talking about smiles, points and says vamanos lol, we are on our way again and come up to a toll that says $205 pesos, the lady here speaks no English and I'm so stressed I don't even think about my converter so she says something about a dollar and I hold up 2 dollar bills limbo, of course she smiles and shakes her head no, I then hold up a $20 bill and she shakes her head yes, takes it and we go on our way, thought about it a mile down the road did the conversion and I should have gotten $3 back, I'm not griping because it was with three measly dollars just to get through lol. We then proceed to Monterrey, I have the hotel obispado galleria in the hotel, by the way when u have it in your GPS it tells u the address is different than the one I got off here on the OH, but I knew it had to be the right one because it is the only one with obispado galleria in the name. So we make it to Monterrey and HOLY BATMAN BALLS, this was a nightmare, I will make damn sure I fly next time we come, these people are crazy as hell, they use no turn signals, they cut you off, it is chaos said as nicely as possible. I wanted to choke the hell out of some and had wished it would have been legal to bring a gun to shoot the tires out of a few vehicles, found the hotel,for the life of me passed it three damn times because we couldn't seem to get my sexy Scottish man on the GPS to help me figure the streets of MTY out lol, went the wrong way on alone way street, and low and behold I finally made it in one piece to the hotel. Got all the way to MTY with my bag of food which consisted of twizzlers, marshmallows, beef/turkey/pork jerky, peanut butter, Nutella, crackers, some canned goods, my protein bars, protein shots, muscle milk, protein powder.....ummmm yea,I brought food that will prob be left here lol. Got the fridge in the room, plugged in my wax melter and got my room more homey, took a video of the room, the Mexican flag that is amazing right out back of the hotel, to much smog on the mountains so they aren't very clear at the moment. Took a short video while at the HEB, took a few pictures. Was picked up at 7:30 by Dr. Sauceda (he is awesome), just as everyone described, my anxiety was quite high but after we got there and everything I felt more at easy, I feel like there is. Smurf inside trying to get out with all the blue ink on me lol, hmmm maybe I will come out of this sexy as hell looking like smurfette hahahaha, the implants we looked at are 400cc, if he is able to do everything he is talking about doing I am gonna rock this "body by Sauceda" lol. I am super anxious but ready to get it over with at the same time. Not sure when I will be able to update this again I am praying for a speedy recovery for myself and seriously can't believe I am actually here, feels so surreal. We are on the 2nd floor of the hotel, I wish it had been the top floor with a better view of the mountains, best part of being here other than the new me that's gonna be happening, the view is just breathtaking, but I do love the mountains. They will be putting a recliner in the room really soon. I took some pictures of my marked up body along with some of the cups he uses for the implant determination size and also one of an implant he had there. I ate some crab corn chowder but it was a bit to fishy for my liking so I threw it out and ended the meal with a muscle milk and some protein powder added to it, I ate a protein bar before my markup so I am good to go. 7:30 comes bright and early so off to bed I go, will update again really soon.
