It’s springs break for our local school district. That doesn’t necessarily mean that BDB Academy is on spring break. The boys are slaving away learning the difference between asteroids, meteors and meteoroids. They’re being forced to use correct grammar and do things like math drills. According to them, McKayla always gets to do fun stuff! She’s in Ensenada on spring break.
Now before you get carried away, it’s not “Girls Gone Wild” spring break. It’s rather doubtful that she’s hanging out by the beach in her very modest one piece, that goes from her chin to her knees. It’s also rather doubtful that she’s doing body shots at Señor Frogs. More likely she’s serving food and working hard. She’s on her first Mission trip with our church.
They left Sunday after church, thus far, we haven’t heard anything. I have no idea what they’re doing but I have a pretty good idea.*
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Monday 8:15 am: The caravan of cars and vans arrive at the Mexican border. Someone misplaces their passport which requires everyone to get out of their cars to look for it.
8:22 Mckayla is distracted by a cute toddler selling chicle. She decides to buy some but doesn’t have a quarter. She wanders into a gift shop to break a $10. The store is owned by Mexican drug lords. The drug lords teenage daughter, Esmeralda, is pouting at the counter. Her parents are incredibly overprotective and unreasonably mean. They won’t let her date Jorge, the cute boy down the street. McKayla recognizes a kindred spirit right away among all of the teen angst and oppression.
8:45 McKayla realizes that she wasn’t supposed to part from the group. She runs back to where she left the cars and vans. They’ve left to go look for her. McKayla has forgotten the first rule of being lost: Stay where you are. Esmeralda offers to let her use the phone. The girls leave to walk to Esmeralda’s house.
9:00 Esmeralda and McKayla are offered a ride by a crazy white woman, Nancy (aka Blanca), in a large SUV. She’s nice enough but she seems like she’s incredibly stoned. They stop at a chop shop. A cranky man in the back recognizes Esmeralda. They are taken on a long and bumpy car ride in the back of a van without windows. Normally, the van is used by a coyote to transport Mexican’s across the border. It’s hot and smelly. The poor driver and Nancy, who happens to have a terrible potty mouth and caffeine addiction, are forced to endure the trip with not one, but two, complaining teens.
10:00 The girls arrive at the rival drug lords (and Nancy’s boyfriend) compound in the middle of nowhere. He’s actually a pretty nice guy, he doesn’t have any sinister plans. Nonetheless though, he is a Mexican drug lord. He plops the girls in his fabulous mansion and forbids them from leaving the game room while he decides what to do with them.
10:05 The complaints begin.
10:15 Esmeralda recognizes him as the mayor. They complaints and harassment reach a new level of creativity.
2:15pm The rival drug lord begins to think he’s made a terrible mistake. He’s not sure if he can survive the sully teen angst and complaints. He sends in Nancy to relate.
5:00pm He decides to make peace by offering them dinner and trying to explain his side. He would really just like Esmeralda’s dad to back off his coyotes. Could she talk to her Dad about that? She refuses.
Long story short, the rival drug lord couldn’t stand it any longer. He decided to put them to work. They’re now digging a tunnel to America that will pop up under Nancy’s maternity clothes store.
*All of this information was loosely gathered while watching the documentary Weeds
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In all seriousness, I’m sure that she’s arrived safely in Ensenada. I bet she wakes up early every morning excited to serve God. I’m also pretty sure that she fills her days with amazing experiences and memories that will take weeks to relate to us. I can’t wait to hear about them.
Either way, working in la iglesia or digging el túnel de las drogas, I hope her work isn’t too strenuous as that her work gloves were “mistakenly” forgotten here on her way out the door. 🙂
Your overactive imagination is quite comical! I’m sure she is having a wonderful time – as long as she remembers No Ice!
I think she met Nancy’s son Silas and decided he’s the one! Now they are on their way to copenhagen with uncle Andy! VIVE LE REVOLUTION!
You have been watching too much reality TV! : )
That’s an awesome thing to do! Hope that she has a great time x