Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your

hosts us. It's Ariel and Raylene. Hello. This isn't just any Raylene.

This is a Raylene that's recently been to Mexico.

Yeah, this is a traveled woman.

Finally.

It has happened.

A seasoned woman.

I went beyond America into a new country for the first time ever.

Yeah, that's so huge and exciting. And I mean, I talked about it

last episode as well, but I texted you so much about how invested I was in you having fun.

I think it's just because travel is such a big part of my life. And I just, I'm like excited for you to have fun doing the thing I like

doing as well yeah and I was just like go I have so many tacos oh my god I had so many tacos I had so many

tacos dear God it was amazing so how was your trip how was the travel how was was the wedding and resort and stuff? Like, tell us whatever you want to tell us about this big...

Yeah. It looks a big trip. It was like a whole week. Yeah, it was Sunday to Sunday. So it was like eight days, including the travel days. Right. The travel there, I'll keep this brief, but it was not fun. It was bad. It was really bad. I was texting

Ariel through the entire experience. It was like, we arrived like three and a half hours early,

yet somehow we had like 20 minutes before boarding that we got to sit down. So that'll tell you

something. We were standing in line dealing with shit for a long time. And that's all I'll say.

It was just not fun, not fun. Lots of unhappy people. And so yeah, it was not like a fun start to the trip, but by the time we arrived at the resort, it was fantastic. It was nice. We all got settled in. Everybody got into their nice clothes and we went and had a drink together and kind of got to meet everyone for the first time.

Because this trip, there was about 40 people that came for the wedding.

That's so crazy. I didn't really realize that until it was all happening.

Well, I didn't know either. I knew nothing about this. Right. Like I knew that Kyle's close family was

going to be there and like his aunts and uncles that I've met before. So I knew maybe about like 12 to 15 of the people that were there. So it was like I knew a decent amount of people but there were tons of friends there that I didn't know. So like Kyle's cousin was the bride and a lot of her friends were there and then obviously a lot of friends of the groom were there. And then the groom's family who I had never met, except actually, there's kind of a

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