Veracruz and Mexican Food Poisoning

Hey all!

Sorry it has been so long since my last post...I suck, I know.  Things here have been very very busy...and its been hard to find the time.  However, things here have been awesome.  As you can see from the title of this post, I went to Veracruz with some friends for the weekend to experience Carnaval...which is the Mexican equivalent of Mardi Gras.  It was an absolute blast.  The four of us shared a hotel room that was right on the beach, and I finally got to play in the ocean for the first time in 6 years!  The ocean is one of my biggest fears, but I braved it and had a blast!  Here is a picture of the beach from our hotel room, as well as the four of us in the room:

I also have a clip of me running into the ocean for the first time, but this website won't let me load it...so maybe ill try it on facebook.  The rest of the weekend was awesome.  We went to the parade, and had an absolute blast.  There were a ton of floats, and it was just really cool to see everyone dancing and celebrating.  We were fortunate enough to be able to eat a lot of great seafood.  The first night, we went to a great place, and I ordered what I thought would be a piece of fish stuffed with seafood stuffing...but turned out to be a soup with about every kind of seafood imaginable in it...including octopus tentacles!  THAT was an experience.  

Here are some pictures of the parade (more will come later on my facebook albums):

This is my favorite picture from the weekend.  No it's not of the parade, but it's even better.  The word "caca" is basically espanol for poop...and to make the picture better, the illustration!  We saw it and lost it...so we HAD to get a picture with it! 

So after a wonderful weekend...we had to return to reality.  And to make reality suck...was when I got some form of food poisoning.  I woke up very early Tuesday morning and felt TERRIBLE.  I spent most of the day vomiting in the bathroom, and feeling awful.  I do not know what it is from...but I have deduced it to a few possibilities:

1) I accidently swallowed some of the water in the ocean

2) Something I ate in Veracruz...maybe some badly cooked seafood?

3) Some of the tomatoes I had at a sketchy restaurant Monday night

Which the reason...it sucked.  I feel a lot better today, but will probably go to the clinic tomorrow to make sure I don't have some form of parasite.  I really hope I don't, because even though they are very easy to treat (you just take one pill), the thought of a worm living in my stomach freaks me out.

Anywho...I hope you all enjoy my post and I promise I will be much more frequent in the coming weeks.  I love you all very much and will constantly pray for all of you!