Friday, June 25, 2010: Hi my Princess! I am sitting in a van full of people as I write this. I apologize upfront if my grammar is bad. If you guessed that I am waiting at the border on the Mexico side, you guessed right. The lines to walk across have been extremely long lately. Today it’s easily a 3-hour wait. I have no idea why. All’s I know is that I do not feel like standing here for this long. Lucky for me they sell open seats on buses headed back into the Unites States. It’s a little bit of a gamble most days, but not today. If the line looks like it will take over an hour, the buses may be a good bet. If the line is as long as it is today, the buses become the best money ever spent. As I write this, I am literally sitting on the floor of a van between the seats and the door waiting to get to the border. If the space is 12-inches (0.30m) wide I would be surprised. I am happy to do it because it will save me close to 2-hours. This is Tijuana, you never know what you are going to see. Tomorrow the line to across could only take 10-minutes.
It’s been a crazy 24-hours Sam. Before I get into that I am giddy with excitement because the reason I was in Mexico was to meet with Alicia and Carlos. We have been talking at length about the current custody arrangement and how we will be able to fix the situation. We are petitioning the judge to help give us more time together and more freedom to spend time together in a more positive setting to nurture the father-daughter bond rather than have to deal with Adriana Coronel Tenorio (AKA Adriana Howitt Coronel, Ari Coronel, Ari Coronel Tenorio, Ari Howitt, Ari Howitt Coronel) in such a hostile environment, with everyone watch over us like prison guards. The approach we are taking actually helps Adriana too, although she does not know it yet. This approach keeps it about you. This whole process for me has been about you. And that is exactly where it should stay.
The judge should get this on her desk and have a decision to move forward by the end of next week. The judge will decide if she will want to work this out with us in court or privately in her chambers. She was leaning towards taking a private meeting in her chambers to see if we can finish up this case. We’ll see. Either way we will petition Adriana. I think she will be pleasantly surprised when she reads the demand. I saw it earlier today. Then again you never know. Adriana is rarely happy with anything I have done unless I am giving her money. Only time will tell I suppose.
Last night I was at a baseball game in Anaheim. The Angels and Dodgers were playing. I can’t wait to go to a baseball game with you Sam. The Angels play in Anaheim and the Dodgers play in Los Angeles. Both are considered to be in the Los Angeles area. Both teams fans show up and it’s a great time no matter where the game is being played. For some reason, I was uncomfortable the entire game. I could not put my finger on it. I thought there was a full moon last night. It turns out it will be a full moon tonight. The baseball game went a longer than usual and normally I would not care. Last night I did something I would never do, I wanted to leave the game before it ended. To the chagrin of my friends of course. As luck would have it, the stadium had a power outage. One section of the lights went out causing a delay. I had my built in excuse to leave early. So everyone agreed. By the way, the Dodgers eventually won the game 10-6.
We never saw the game end and it ended up being a good thing because as we approach the parking lot where my truck was, the truck was nowhere to be seen. We looked around thinking we were in the wrong parking lot. That was not it. Maybe we accidentally parked in a place where we were not supposed to and it was towed away. That was not it either. The truck was stolen! Someone had taken my truck! Talk about crazy. With everything else going on, this was very surreal. Lucky for us we have good friends who had no problem coming to get us at 11:00 at night. So, I have had a sleepless night trying to figure out what happened to my truck. At the same time, I AM NOT going to let this get in the way of spending time with you tomorrow. I am without a car to drive for the moment. That will change by week’s end. I LOVE YOU SAM! I will see you soon my Princess!