The First 2 Weeks

So we've been in our new home for two weeks now.  We found a wonderful community with a nice playground, common pools and lots of streets for our kids to bike around in.  All 3 kids have found  English speaking friends and our outside playing almost everyday.  

The house we rented was furnished, we've had a few minor problems but so far the property manager has made sure to resolve them as soon as possible.

Getting some things have been a challenge, particularly when you don't speak Spanish.  Fortunately our leasing agent has been more then happy to make calls for us on our behave when it comes to hooking up the phones/Internet and dish.  We still have to set up a bank account that should be interesting!!

Things are much cheaper here,  a 3 months supply of propane gas which heats your water and is used by your stove will cost you $70.  Our phone, Internet and dish is costing us $40 per month.  Car insurance for six months is $400.00.  I purchased some beautiful 15 inch hanging baskets of flowers and they cost less then $5.00 each.  I have found a hair salon that will do my hair for half of what I paid back home.   

Now for the Ugly side of Cabo.  If you didn't already know Cabo is a dessert and because of this water needs to be conserved for the most part.  One way they save water is by using the grey water "septic tank water" to water all parks and green spaces.  Unfortunately throughout the day you can always count on the lovely smell of sewage in the air.  Not so nice in  place that's suppose to be paradise.

The View from our patio 

Last May 2011, The Husband decided we needed to do something to save more money.  I figured he would suggest cutting back.   Not quite what he was thinking, instead he came up with the idea of moving to Mexico.  It's so much cheaper to live there and he could still work in Canada while me and our three children lived the life of luxury in beautiful Cabo San Lucas.  I'll be very honest I though and still think he's a little nuts.  But after many conversations and lots of investigating I finally said yes to this crazy idea.  


Before I would commit 100% I had  to do tones of research about living in Cabo, the schools they had for our kids the medical, houses to rent etc.  Then we had to actually come back to Cabo and actually see which schools would fit our kids and which communities we liked best.  After that mini trip in August I gave it the green light.


So we rented our house out and on December 6th 2011 my son and I started the drive from Calgary, Alberta to San Diego were we had hired a driver to take our van the rest of the way.  The Husband and our two girls left Calgary on December 9th flying directly to Cabo.  


The Adventure begins !!!!!