arrival : )

So last night was a late night.  Mérida is one hour behind Raleigh, so when we arrived back at the hotel around 12:00am Central Time, I was used to the 1:00am Eastern time.  My flight was supposed to land at 9:08, but it landed at 9:35ish.  Then we had to wait an hour and a day for the millions of people in front of us on the jumbo jet to exit the premises.  Meanwhile some guy from England (i think?) coughed and coughed and coughed.  Then we had to wait an hour and day in the line for extranjeros (foreigners) at customs while the mejicanos moved through their line ever so quickly.  When I finally got through the line, I got cheated out of my nice first stamp in my passport because the guy was running out of ink.  I thought i was done after this.  SIIIIIIIIKE.  There was another line.  I put my bags through yet another x-ray machine, gave the guard my declaration paperwork, and then was asked to push the button.  THE button.  I don't know how the button knows whether or not we are safe enough to go through, but it gave me the green light so I scampered along and got the hell outta there.  Through the doors, Christy and I met up with Valerie (the program director) who was also picking up another guy Donny from Indiana.  She took us to a 7-11 so we could buy BOTTLED WATER, and boy did we buy a lot of it.  I've heard some diarrhea stories, and I am NOT messing with this agua Mejicana (Mexican water).  I even brushed my teeth last night with the bottled water.  We watched the Mexican music channel, posted pictures, and made fun of the two different flushers on the wall (one for pee and one for poop).  Took some airborne (which the x-ray monitors thought was pepper spray at the RDU airport), chatted with FEEFS! on skype, and now i'm going downstairs for breakfast.  Here start my Mexican adventures!