A Trip to Mexico

Sorry everyone! I know that I usually have my blogs done by now, but I have had quite a busy week already and that is why I am just getting to these today. I had to work on Monday. I usually only work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but this week my mom had to have surgery on her gallbladder on Wednesday so I had to switch days with a co-worker in order to have a babysitter for Macy. I worked on Monday and Tuesday, so now I have to rest of the week off. YAY, sort of, I say that because I still have a LOT of work to do for school since finals are only two weeks away. I'm sure a lot of you are feeling the "finals" crunching in on you as well. Anyway, I have had a lot of horrible news for me until today. Things are starting to look better, thank goodness! A friend of mine, I wrote about him in a later blog, went to go see his dying mother in Mexico. His name is Antonio and he is from Mexico, but he has a fiance and a daughter here in Lamar, MO, where he has lived now for about 5 or 6 years. He went to Mexico to go visit his mother that is very ill and about to die. He took his fiance, Crystal, and his daughter, Ale, with him to meet his mother for the first time and to spend time with her before she died. After staying there for a few weeks they loaded up Antonio's nice SUV and headed home. When they got to the border, the police were checking vehicles and so their vehicle was checked also. After checking the vehicle and identifying everyone in the car the police determined that Antonio was trying to cross the border illegally. They made Crystal return home to Lamar without Antonio. I asked Crystal why they did that and she said that Antonio has work release papers that allow him to come to our country to work for a certain amount of time and then they have to return to their country and that Antonio only had those papers and not any actual citizenship papers. She said that the date on his work release papers had been expired and she didn't know that because she didn't even know where Antonio's papers were at. She went to talk to a lawyer and the lawyer said that she would have to go back to Mexico and get married to Antonio there and then live there for a little while before Antonio would be able to get his citizenship papers and come home. I have to say that I'm proud of Crystal because she is going to do exactly what the lawyer told her to do and go down there and do all that just to get her man back so he can be home with his two favorite girls. I asked her if she had a good time in Mexico, when she was just "visiting" and she said that she loved  it and that Mexico is a beautful place, but people there are very poor. I told her that her task at hand would be over before she knew it and that she would be home in Lamar soon enough. I told her to think of it as one big vacation. She said Ale really enjoyed being with her dad's family and that she didn't think it would be so bad. She is just worried about all of the crime thats been going on down there and that she would miss everybody back home. She called me today to let me know that she was fixing to leave to go back to Mexico. I hope she has a safe adventure. Not many people around here can say that they had to go stay in Mexico for a while! I firmly believe in our country's immigration laws and I'm pretty sure Crystal does to, but Antonio came over here perfectly legal and just didn't go back. He is part of our community now and we all miss him, so I'm glad that Crystal is going to bring him back. He is the General manager at our local El Charro's and everybody in town knows Antonio. He doesn't have a bad reputation in our town and he needs to be brought home, because everybody in our community is missing him. We can't wait for Crystal to bring him home so he can see him at El Charro's again! Maybe Crystal will have him back before the end of the summer so he can catch the last canoeing trip of the season! I pray Crystal has a safe trip and can come home soon. She is a very brave person!