Cancun Part I

As an early 5-year anniversary celebration, Ryan and I took a trip to Cancun.

The fun began during our flight to Cancun, and I'm not referring to your typical in-flight entertainment of movies.  The pilot warned us before we took off, that we'd be flying thru a tropical depression and that if it got to bad, we'd divert and land elsewhere.  Well about 30 minutes outside of Cancun, the plane dropped drastically.  You know one of those drops where you wonder where your stomach went.  The pilot got on the sound system and told everyone to take their seats.  He told the flight attendants that they did not have time to prepare the cabin, but that we were making our final decent.  We felt a couple more drastic drops.  Drinks were flying all over the place.

As you can imagine, everyone was looking around thinking what is going on?  Sitting next to Ryan was an Italian couple and they were anything but calm.  The poor guy was trying to comfort his girlfriend, but due to the language barrier they were getting more stressed because they couldn't understand the pilot's message.  I turn around and the lady in the row behind me was doing her holy prayer thing.  I look the other direction and another woman has her hands on her head with her head between her legs.  Within a couple of minutes, we had cleared the "black" clouds and we could see land and water.  Everyone on the plane was relieved!

We went to our hotel and unpacked as the tropical storm passed.  That evening we walked down to La Isla where all the shops and restaurants are on the Hotel Zone.  The Hotel Zone is exactly what it sounds like.  It is an island filled with hotels.  Literally the beach is stacked with resort after resort. We stayed at the Le Meridien which was like one hotel down from the Ritz Carlton, so it was a great location.

View from our room

This is what we looked like pretty much every day of the trip.  Kicking it on the beach, RELAXING!

Anyway, back to La Isla.  We looked for placed to eat and landed upon a restaurant called Chocolate City.  It sounded like a total winner!  Let's just say it was interesting. The food was below average.  At each table there was a TV.  (Who goes out to dinner with their family and watches TV, isn't that exactly what you are trying to get away from?)  But that's not even the bizarre part.  The strange part was what they were playing on the TVs.  They were showing these pranks that people played on football players back in the early 90's.  And these pranks involved SNAKES.  So while eating, you get to watch SNAKES.  Oh what joy!  How brilliant is that?  I lost my appetite.

We went back to the hotel and swore that we were only eating at restaurants we had heard of which meant we ordered a few Papa John's pizzas!

That night we got a great nights rest.  We slept with the sliding glass door open and listened to the waves.  The next morning I woke up early just as the sun was rising.  It was beautiful.  Ryan of course could not comprehend why on earth I would wake up that early given it was our vacation and I could sleep in.  It's not like I set an alarm or anything.  My body just wakes itself up early.

The next couple of days, our schedule consisted of eating huge gourmet breakfasts that the hotel comped.  Then we'd let our tummies settle for a bit while we got ready for the day.  We'd work out or play tennis and hit the beach.  What more could you ask for?  I just love love love the water in Cancun.  First of all it is warm. Second of all it is clear.  And Third of all, the waves are not big, so you can enjoy floating around.  Ryan and I had a blast swimming in the water for hours.  In the evening we'd swim in the pool.  The hotel had three infinity pools that dropped down to the ocean and the top pool was heated.  So it was like swimming in a hot tub!

Our morning breakfast view!

An afternoon shower while swimming.

One of the things Ryan and I found most surprising was that there were a lot of foreigners.  Since Mexico borders America, we assumed that Cancun would be full with mostly American tourists.  Boy were we wrong.  There were people from all over the world.

Cancun Part II Coming Soon!