It's 4AM, and we're up. The plane doesn't leave until 7:15, but we've gotta get ready, get to the airport, check in and get through customs... as it turns out, we only had 1/2 an hour to kill at the airport. In case you haven't guessed yet, we're on vacation! Destination: Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico!
On the plane we got to watch 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'Love Actually'. We're still debating whether that made the trip go slower, or more quickly...
Arival in Cancun was at 3PM Central Time, so that's really 1PM Pacific. Quick math... it was a 5 and 3/4 hour flight. It's currently 31 degrees and hyooooo-MID! Cloudy, but nice. :-)
It takes another hour to get through customs and imigration.
The bus driver that takes us to our hotel is selling bottles Corona for $3 US, and even though we're 20 minutes away from a week of 'all inclusive' food and drinks, I say what-the-hey and buy one.
The hotel's really nice - not 'high class', but nice, and comfortable.
By the way, Carole has already got all her piuctures online, so instead of pasting them in the blog, I'm just going to provide links to her gallery... like this...
Here's a picture of the front of the resort and Here's what it looked like out back
We went four a walk down the beach, southward toward Club Med, and turned around as the sun started to go down. I had about 7 glasses of the complimentary beer (they only give you 6 oz glasses, but at least it's Dos Equis!)
It's pretty windy here - and sticky, but warm, and I do likes it warm...
It's now about 5PM, and dinner is at 7, so we buy a bag of chips and a big bottle of water for 26 pesos ($3.50) to tide us over ... we hadn't figured out that there was a complimentary snack bar down by the pool yet...
For dinner I had a big make-you-own salad and tacos chorizo caliente, bifek y salsa, and ice cream for desert! Oh, and 5 more cups of Dos Equis. After dinner we return to our room and practise some very important spanish phrases that we'll be needing in the coming days. Like "Una cervesa para llebar, por favor!" and "Dos cerveca para llevar, por favor!", and "Tres cervesa para llevar, por favor!"
Another handy one was "come se dice..." (how do you say...)
After that we went down and booked a couple of day trips for the coming days. The first to Chichen Itza, an dthe 2nd to Isla Mujeres. By 10pm it had already been a very LONG day for us, and we ended up crashing. That's it for day one!