Cancun
My trip went something like this:
- Get up ridiculously early to go to the airport after less than four hours of sleep.
- Arrive at the all-inclusive resort about 10 hours later.
- Acquire a massive sunburn within 24 hours after lounging at the pool.
- Spend the next six days eating a lot of really good buffet food, drinking many cocktails [and wine and bottled water and the occasional beer], and sweating. Lots and lots of sweating.
- Spend three of those six days on a tour bus
pretending to be a rockstarlooking at amazing Mayan ruins. Seriously, Chichen Itza was the most mind blowing thing I’ve ever seen. - Avoid anything and everything having to do with the American Idol event going on at the resort.
- Enjoy a fabulous 50 minute massage at the spa.
- Watch Andrew eat his weight in tacos.
- Eat the same amount in cactus and fresh fruit.
- Lose repeatedly at foosball.
- Make up for it in basketball.
- Eat at a fancy dinner, complete with Mayans and pineapple chili sorbet in a beer mug made of ice.
- Sneak cheese and pretend it didn’t happen.
- Become a delicious meal for a mosquito or four after the rain settled in over the beach.
- Wear lots of dresses.
- Wear lots of sunscreen.
- Take many, many showers.
- Realize after four days that yes, the bathroom floor tiles are in fact heated.
- Sleep on the plane back to Portland, and not get home until almost midnight.
- Be back to the office by 8am the next day.
It was a really good trip. I love a vacation [who doesn’t?!]. However, we definitely learned that we’re not really resort people. I’d rather get into the cities and check them out for what they are–not the sterile environment that is the resort.
Andrew mostly took the photos. They’re on his Facebook. He posted a couple on his Flickr page.
Oh, wow. Even more jealous now! The pictures are gorgeous (and you and the boy are adorable, just so you know 🙂 ). Sorbet in an ice-mug sounds like perfect Cancun food.
And heated tile floors? What is this business, and why don’t I have it??
Right?! The heated tile floors were so rad. It would be 95º and humid outside and about 62º in our hotel room. By the time you crawled out of bed and ran to the bathroom, you’d be freeeeeeeeeeezing!
Looks amazing!! The water is so clear there!
Did you like the resort you were at? Friends of mine want to go, so we’ve been looking online, but there are so many to choose from. 😛
It was nice if you really want to get away from it all, but you really don’t feel like you’re in Mexico when you’re staying there. If you want to get into Cancun proper [as its a good 30-40 minute bus ride from the resort], there is a shuttle that runs 3x a day–that’s it. Otherwise you’re stuck with taxis. We didn’t really have time to go since we were usually taking guided tours, but I don’t know that I’d go out of my way to stay in one again [at least this one] because we really like being able to get out and see/explore on our own.