Last year I invited a small group to travel with me to Mexico. I came across this very new hotel, with few reviews, however, still manged to get my friends to try it out with me. It wasn't until our ride from the airport to the hotel, that I began to panic. What was I thinking bringing friends to a hotel in Mexico that no one knew about? What if we all hated it? For the next 20 minutes I sat in the back of the SUV quietly praying that we didn't make a mistake coming here.

There is something about lake life that brings a family together. I should know because I just hosted my family of 15 members, over July 4th weekend. Ages ranged from 73 to 5 years old...2 grandparents, 3 brothers, 3 sister-in-laws, 1 college student, 1 high school senior, 2 teenagers, 2 pre-teens and one little boy. For four days, the entire family ate, drank, played and laughed together. We swam, fished, toasted marshmallows and reminisced of the good old days over good