We’re back from Mexico! I’ll post later with pics and a full recap, but for now I’ll just focus on one thing. The stars. There were so many stars where we were, it was incredible. How cool would it have been to have had telescopes to look through?

I guess because we were far from any big cities and on the shore, it was dark enough and the weather was clear enough that the night sky was just incredible. We saw constellations, planets, meteors and stars. Lots and lots of stars. Shooting stars, twinkling stars, the whole shebang. It would have been really cool to have seen them up close.

That makes me think that a telescope would be a great Christmas gift. I remember looking through my brother’s telescope when I was little. Pretty neat.

And speaking of seeing things up close, binoculars are always welcome too. You know how you never have them when you need them? For instance, Kristina and Mike went parasailing and from the shore, all of the parasailers looked like specks. It would have been really nice to have had binoculars in that case.

Will be back with a Mexico re-cap later!