It was a long/short trip. We left on Thursday the 27th. And Rio did soooo well on the airplanes. Slept the majority of the 5 hours (2 planes). Took TONS of pictures.
I visited my father in law in the hospital every other day, they wouldn't let Rio in to see him. And everyday FIL told me how he really wanted to see the Burrito (Rio) and I would tell him "he's outside right now, but we are all waiting at the house for you to come home" and he would respond "Oh I know, I'm going to go home, to see el Burrito" I saw him Fri, Sat, Tues, and Thurs. We were going to go on Sat the 5th. But I got a phone call at the house at 5:50 am. It was my MIL crying. My FIL passed away at 5am. He never got to meet Rio, didn't get to see his two sons here in the states, and didn't get to be in his own home for the last 13 days of his life. It was the HARDEST thing I have ever had to do, to call my husband thousands of miles away to tell him that his father died. I called Mario at 5:52am and then went into the big bedroom where my BIL's were sleeping and my 22yr old BIL collapsed crying into my arms. That woke up his little brothers (13 and 11yrs old) and they asked what was going on, and I was put in the position to tell them as well.
Rio and I later went to MIL's parents house for breakfast like every morning and they still didn't know so I had to inform FIL's in laws, he was a part of their family for 25+yrs. And then the phone rang and it was Mario's sister. She asked me what was going on because a cousin of hers told her to call because her dad "wasn't doing well". So I had to tell SIL while the two little boys sat next to me and I broke down crying and told her and that started everyone else.
The way they do funerals in MX is like the old days here. They have the body in the house and have visitors all day and night and the family stays up all night. They pray the rosary and the next day have mass. So he died Saturday and his mass was 1:30pm Sunday. He was placed in the tomb shortly there after. And we were all there to watch them place him in there with his parents and then seal them in with bricks and cement.
It was amazing to see how many people my FIL touched in his short 50 years.
We came home Tuesday, decided not to extend the stay, that was the day I had the ticket. Mario thought I might want to stay longer and let MIL have more time with Rio. But to be honest it wouldn't have helped. So we came home with plans to go back within the next 6 months.
