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We just arrived home from our yoga retreat in Mexico late last night. There was a ground stop in Charlotte on Wednesday evening due to some crazy storms so we were diverted to Jacksonville, Florida. The initial plan was for us to deplane and go through customs in JAX but thankfully they kept us on the plane, refueled and we were cleared to head back to Charlotte. We finally walked in our front door a little before 1 a.m. and were grateful to be home safely. There were definitely some white knuckled, hand clenching, eyes closed moments on that flight into Charlotte.

These two are doing the pouting game today over being left for 5 days. We have the most amazing dog sitter who comes and stays with the pups so their life is pretty good while we’re gone but they’re still wanting some extra attention and love.

I’m going to break up our yoga retreat experience into three separate posts. Today’s will just be a general photo dump, tomorrow I’ll showcase all of the delicious food we ate and next week I’ll write a full recap of Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita because I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a fabulous all-inclusive Mexico vacation.

I’ll go “a sentence per picture” style here.

jen eddins fiance

Five days with extremely minimal work and computer time = HOORAY!

Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita yoga retreat

Morning practice space.

skinny margarita at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

Beach + skinny margaritas all day.

pier at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

Evening practice space.

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Every night except for one we ate as a group. This was our date night.

makita at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

Our “pet away from home.” We LOVE Makita!

bound half moon

Bound half moon.

yoga retreat at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

Evening class.

jen peanut butter runner

The walk out to the beach from our room.

yoga retreat at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

Can’t this be my practice view every day?

y2 yoga retreat

Y2 Yoga girls!

Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

So glad he loves relaxing on the beach as much as I do.

Long walks.

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Little white dress for dinner on the last night. (You have to save the white dress for the tan, right?) Uncaptured by this picture was the size of my curly hair! It faded into the darkness.

sunrise at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

I was up every morning before 7 a.m. on this trip. The bonus of that was getting to see the sunrise on our patio every day.

Soaking up a few last hours on the beach before we left yesterday.

Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita

Saying goodbye to Zoetry.

Doing what he does best and always making me laugh. This was the scene at the Cancun airport yesterday.

jen eddins tanner bazemore

Until next time. <3

Favorite tropical vacation destination?

Have you ever been on a yoga retreat or would you like to go on one?

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