Chocolate souffle, grilled chicken, getting hit by a wave & smooches on the beach
View from our room! Dennis taking in the breeze, The Giacominos & Larsons
The Carribean Sea @ it's finest!
Apparently, our blog is long over due for an update. So what better place to start than our venture out of the country to paradise. On Friday November 27th, we flew down to Mexico for our friends Mike & Megan Giacamino's wedding. This is the first vacation we have taken together where we have gone by ourselves, not with family. As you can see from the above pictures, the water was gorgeous! I have never seen the Carribean Sea before. The water was atleast 3 different colors of blue. When arrived in Cancun in the evening. We had a shuttle take us to our hotel, The Grande Oasis Cancun. We checked in, did some star gazing over the ocean (breath-taking) and called it a night. Dennis decided to get sick at the start of our vacation. He went to bed that night with a runny nose & cough, H1N1 in Mexico?
We woke up the next morning to find blue skys and sunshine. We met everyone for breakfast and then headed to the pool for the day. Dennis continued to have his fever and semi runny nose but he didn't let that get him down. After hours at the pool, we decided to go down to the beach and get some good pics by the waves. There were vendors that came walking by and Den bought me a gorgeous silver bracelet. We attempted to get a cool picture out on the rocks with the waves coming close, thinking it would be a great xmas card pic. Right as Dominic went to take the picture, the waves came up higher than they were and got us! It didn't make for a good picture but it didn't make it on this years card. After our beach adventures, we got all fancied up and went to a nice resturant on the resort for dinner. I had this yummy grilled chicken with real sweet potatoes and to die for chocolate souffle for dessert. Dennis had seafood festival and white chocolate soup & coconut ice cream. We slept with our patio door open that night. It was peaceful sleeping to the sound of waves and feeling that warm ocean breeze.
Sunday-Wedding day!! We went to Dos Lunas for breakfast. It was fun watching the birds dive down to the tables when people were done trying to get food. They would dive down and take a ton of sugar packets and then drop them as they were flying away. Dennis and I decided to head downtown and do some shopping after breakfast. I got to use my spanish and ask a lady Tienes un bano? (Do you have a bathroom?) Man, her eyes lit up when I asked her that, I guess she was surprised this white girl spoke spanish. I made Dennis go in the bathroom with me because I didn't know what to expect. There were no toilet seat on the round toilet. Ever tried to hoover over a very round seat? We stopped by a Farmacia to get Den some meds to kick his cold. We got him penicilin, they sell it over the counter there. We then headed back to the resort to soak up some rays. This was the best day, as the sun was out the entire time, no clouds. Then it was time to get ready for the wedding!! We took some pics by the beach and then headed up for the ceremony. It was gorgeous, a little windy but it was a beautiful day. We then went to the reception at a restaurant and had some interesting food.
Monday- I happened to wake up at 5am to go to the bathroom and caught the sunrise, it was breath taking. By the time we got up for breakfast, a storm was rolling in. We walked in the rain to breakfast. I was happy that it stopped raining by the time we were done and we able to get some rays before we had to pack up and catch out flight home. We got some lunch @Dos Lunas before checking out. The garlic bread didn't agree with Dennis, as he lost it in the plants in the middle of the restaurant! We got to the airport to check in and got upgraded to a direct flight that was leaving 2 hours earlier, at no charge! We got our seats, bored the plane and found out we had first class seats in the flight attendants cabin. Our seat laid back all the way and we got pillows and blankets! Guess you can guess what we did for th 3 hours flight home,...yep we slept the whole flight. It was a great vacation and we will definately go back. It was sad to get off the plane and see the temp was only 28 degrees, yikes! Needless to say, I was the next one to get sick the following week we returned from our trip, and I had Dennis to blame!
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