Mexico Trip: Summary

if you don't want to read the rest of this post, let me summarize the trip with one picture

We started our trip by upgrading to first class, so now nothing else will ever be good enough. Champagne, breakfast and arm room are really the only way to start a vacation. After we were driven the 30 minutes it took us to get to our resort we were welcomed with champagne, and taken to check in and served more champagne.

showin off our first class


After seeing our room, we headed straight to lunch at the grill which is on top of two of the resort's pools. After requesting something special to drink, then declining a second, the waiter asked me, "why not, do you have somewhere to drive?" which would be the first of many times we would be asked this question, along with, "why not, are you worried about the cost?" and "why not, do you have somewhere to be?"

our first lunch complete with first two fruity drinks

We spent our first, and eventually every, afternoon in the pool with the swim up bar. Each time we would try new drinks and find new people to chat it up with. Some of our favorites were the mojito made with cuban rum, of which a purchased a bottle because they were so delicioso, a miami vice: strawberry daiquiri on the bottom and pina colada on the top, and tc's favorite was the drunken banana something or other which tasted a lot like banana's foster.

our favorite place to spend the afternoons

Our first evening we had dinner in an Asian themed restaurant and I was very impressed but tc did not prefer it. After dinner we went down to see the band that played outside and ran into some of the people we had spent time with at the pool. That night was karaoke and dancing. Unfortunately, there was a photographer there and he caught pictures of both which he later showed us, not a memory any one needed.

Our second day we spent the morning at the beach reading, and the afternoon at the swim up bar. We had dinner in the French themed restaurant which was incredible. That evening's entertainment was a circus show, which was corny but entertaining.

somehow reading here in the mornings never seemed to get old

one of the performers at the circus show

Our third day was spent exactly like the second, except this one involved sunburn. We stayed at the swim up bar until it was closed plus some. We went to the Italian themed restaurant but neither of us really liked our food at all so we went back up to the room and tc went straight to bed while I watched tv.

another beautiful morning at the beach

another fun afternoon at the pool

Our fourth day I was recovering from the sunburn so we took everything very slow and spent all of our time in the shaded part of the beach. It was a beautiful day to be sitting in the shade reading so it worked out very well. That night we ate dinner at the steak and lobster restaurant, and ended up being joined by a couple we had met at the pool. They were hilarious and so we were very glad we ended up running in to them. They dude had tc's same first and middle name and the exact same sense of humor as my funniest friend so naturally we got along famously. The restaurant quite literally only served steak and lobster so it was of course delicious. After dinner the four of us went to watch the band, then to dancing. It was quite a fun (and hilarious) evening.

our shaded haven

dinner with friends

Our final day we spent mostly being sad. Okay, really I spent most of the day being sad. It is so hard to know you are going to be leaving paradise. We had breakfast, packed our bags, read, and then waiting for our ride to show up. On the way out the door I had one mas cosmopolitan for good measure.

All in all it was an incredible trip. The weather could not have been any better, the service was wonderful, the beaches, pools, restaurants, bars and entertainment were all magnificent. I personally feel so spoiled that we are able to go to someplace that was so amazing.

just a little warning fail from the tabacco industry. we thought this was SO funny