trip to Porta Vejarto Mexico

Did I spell that right? In 1987 we made our first ever flight. My husband and I went to Porta Vejarto Mexico for 4 days. We had a direct flight from San Antonio to Purta Vejarto on Mexicanna. Our flight was on an old airplane that looked like something left over from world war two. We were both scared to death at the beginning of the flight. The flight was also occupied by about 40 young men from the university of oklahoma who were on spring bread. The flight attendants were great and had to put up with alot from the loud drunk frat boys. We were served steak on real china with silver. The pilot flew low over the black mountains so we had an increadable view all in all it was a tremendos flight. The plane landed in the middle of what looked like a parking lot for a warehouse club. We had to deplane on roll away stairs, which was scarey. We then say little busses running accross the tarmack & people running to jump on. We barely caught the last one since we did not realize what was happening. We rode the little bus up to the "terminal" which happened to be a big metal building with concrete floors and no airconditioning. Customs was folding tables set up and people standing there going through your bags & belongings in front of everyone. Not the most impressive set up but very efficent we were through customs in about 10 minutes. We took a cab to our hotel which was provided as part of the "package" trip. The hotel was a "Playa" in the middle of down town, from the outside it was beautiful and it was well situated right on the beach. We went into the open air lobby & checked in and were shown to our room. The room was a shock, it was old and run down and furnished with old furniture which had been painted bright orange. The airconditioner was an ancient window unit installed in the old transom over the door. We looked in the phone book and tried to find a more comfortable hotel but could not find one with a vacancy for a price we could afford. So we decided to do what we could to make the best of the trip. We put on our walking shoes and went out to see the town. We were enjoying the town seeing the sights and drinking corona which was sold cold on every corner for 50 cents. We encountered new shocks that night when we got back to our room. The shower head in our shower was the size of a dinner plate the reason was that the water pressure was so poor, the water would dribble up to the shower head, the shower head would fill up and then dump on you , it took an hour to get enough water to rinse off. Laughing at the experience we settled into bed around midnight, just as we laid down the air conditioner turned off. When we called down to the front desk we were told that all the air conditioners turn off at midnight and come back on at 7AM and there is nothing that can be done. So here we are with a tipsy sweaty night of hot fitful sleep. The following days of the trip progressed about the same way as the first we did learn to enjoy the sweaty nights. We saw lots of beautiful scenery and meant friendly people ate great food drank to much and generally had a great time. Our flight home was as pleasant as our trip down. We came home with $2.00 bottles of El Presidentee brandy and sun tans and fun memories. So the travel bug is started.