Many nice people have asked how was my trip to Cancun. If I can be cliche in a word it was memorable. We drove off with our minivan taxi driver at 5ish AM on Saturday morning, it was cold for sandals. I wore them anyway, the minute we were out the door I was on vacation.
When I travel, as I do about quarterly thanks to my super awesome part time job livng the life of a jet setting Tastefully Simple Lady, I like a few things to go a certain way. Just think of me as a female version of Ryan Bingham in Up In The Air, without 97% of the issues. I had my pre-boarding Egg McMuffin and Venti Starbucks (black). Can I just say, this is the perfect traveling breakfast, as long as you are not adverse to using the plane's bathroom. (Venti is a lot of coffee). I like to sit in the back-ish of the plane and must have an aisle seat. Ah aisle seats how I love aisle seats. "Up in the Air" was the movie for the flight, a movie that takes place in airports and on American Airlines-the same airline we were flying.
Have you ever been to Cancun? I really don't like wintertime and I am the one who says bring on the heat, I can handle the humidity. righhhhttt. Let me put it this way, people who live in Cancun like to travel to Florida to experience the dry heat. When they visit Chicago in August and we are enjoying 90% humidity, they bring a coat so they won't be chilly. Walking from the plane to the baggage claim my hair went from straight-ish with some wave to boing! Frizzy city. The plus was I didn't spend any of my vacation on hair styling.
Tom walked into the resort and looked around and his mouth dropped opened. He was impressed. The resort is all tile and marble and has beautiful stainglass ceilings. It reminded me of a Las Vegas Hotel big, sensory overload, and you have no reason to leave the place except to catch your plane home. When we arrived at the resort there was really really long lines for check in, which was bad because I was starving, and good because they had a cocktail bar and snacks next to the check in line. Because I am almost 40 and wise in the ways of drinking alchohol, I grabbed a margarita, and no snacks. I told Tom, I didn't want to waste my hunger on chips and salsa.
Once we got to our room we checked out the minibar, which was included in the all-inclusiveness of the place so we opened the wine in our room, toasted to the view, took a picture of the liquor dispensers, checked out the robes and I made Tom get in the hammock for a picture. The courtyard our room overlooked had a bit of an ocean view, lots of palm trees and birds were singing. I remarked to Tom that the birds reminded me of our honeymoon in Hawaii.
Clearly this picture isn't going to end up in the resort brochure touting how relaxing it is at their resort.
We had a lovely room. As we were starving we wanted to get right out there and enjoy the all-inclusivity, and I wanted to wear my most awesome shoes. Micheal Kors sandals I got via mypoints.com daily deals. Obviously the man didn't appreciate the awesomeness of the shoes. Not only are they cute but also super comfy, except if you wear them for a night out then you might get a huge blister on your big toe like me!
I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but I am know for my falling. I trip from time to time and fall and it is funny every time. Something about seeing someone fall down is always funny. So there I was feeling stylish and trendy in my cute shoes and my casual dress walking around with my hubby with the ocean breeze. A lovely stroll, and then I walk over to a bathroom over by one of the pools and whooops. I slipped and fell right when another lady was walking out of the stall I fall smack on the floor on my knee. The kind lovely lady says, "Are you OK? I did the same thing!" I laughed and made a mental note to text my good friend and let her know I had fallen again. It's not a fun time til I fall down. That lady probably didn't really even fall, she was just trying to make me feel better or she thought I was drunk and she wanted to humor the drunk lady.
In my defense of falling:
1. I don't fall that much, I just happen to fall around others.
2. I learned the hard way not to walk or run and look at my iphone.
3. I run 20-30 miles a week so on average I don't fall anymore than anyone else.
4. I didn't fall until I after I sprained my ankle really bad, I blame my bad ankle.
We had a really yummy dinner and I think I let the nice waiter give me a bit too many cervezas. I mean the guy was taking my glass when it was 3/4 empty and giving me a fresh mug. It was a fun night, Tom was Mr. Social and lucky for me I switched to water!
At the crack of dawn, the birds woke me up. They were louder than my alarm clock and not welcome at all. Tom the morning person that he is, was up and working on a presentation for work and pre
paring for his conference call at 8am. He was grumbling, and I dug thru my carry-on, found the ibuprophen and went back to bed.
On our walk to breakfast, we decided we aren't cut out for a vacation of drinking. Tom said we should have been practicing by drinking frequently in the weeks leading up to our trip (tongue-in-cheek).
After breakfast Tom had more work to wrap up, so I took a nap, because I could. Naps cannot be overrated. Tom's work was wrapped up and we finally got to check out the pools. When you have lots of freckles, such as I do, you learn how to put on loads of sunblock. Much to the disappointment of Ms. Anna, we came back with no suntan.
I have to share more of the trip, more falling, learning to use chopsticks, our door falling off our room. I'm going to try to tell the rest of the story tomorrow, but I might not get to it since at 7pm tonight (Thursday) I realized that Bryce's 1st communion is at 10AM on Saturday, and he doesn't have a suit to wear and I have to get an xray on my toe because it's probably broken. Too funny! Really I am organized, and in great health! It just doesn't sound like it!
