From Blood Tests to a Coffee Date to Marriage Preparation, My First Day in Mexico, Playa del Carmen

Fun fact. Before you can legally get married in Mexico you have to submit blood test results, which includes an STD test (I tested negative for everything, not that I was too worried, but my anxious brain will invent things like once I heard you can get chlamydia from a toilet seat, and what if that has happened to me, how embarrassing), blood type (I’m O+, never knew that), and if I’m related to my husband in the United States and soon to be husband in Mexico (I’m not by the by, which makes sense being as he’s Mexican and I am very very white like when I did an ancestry test my people never made it past Scotland). You can get these blood tests done at any of these laboratories in Mexico and it costs about 750 pesos for the both of us or around 40 dollars depending on how the peso is doing. If you ever want to get anything tested: hormone levels, cholesterol, etc. pop into one of these labs and you will have your results mid day. Ours was ready around 11:30, we got there right when they opened at 7AM.

I know I’m a baby, but in my defense she said I had skinny veins and that made me happy, maybe because she used the word skinny. Then we went back to the hotel for G to work and I to force an exploration adventure although I would have rather stayed in the hotel. I fought the urge to find the nearest Starbucks, something familiar, after a morning of strange things, but I didn’t want to be that girl so I found this cute little cafe after walking aimlessly around in a huge circle and sweating profusely.

Literally that cafe Americano was the size of my head. I tried to order in Spanish; I tried to talk to my waitress in Spanish, but she looked at me a few times and then just switched to English like it’s the easiest thing in the world and maybe for her it is, but for me it’s going to be a life long battle? Or should I say challenge? Challenge probably sounds better.

Once our results were ready we delivered them to where we will be getting married on Thursday. Yes it is literally a hole in the wall and yes I am very excited to get married in said hole in a literal wall.

Overall I did several things out of my comfort zone, one even without my Mexican husband who usually leads the way and I trip along with the occasional stumble or fall or a healthy mixture of both of those things as I go. Cheers to discovering new things and we will see what tomorrow holds.