Day Four: What a beautiful day for a Wedding!

The day began bright and sunny. What a perfect day!!! Finally some heat.
After our regular sleep in we headed down to the beach. I had paid for wifi for the day so I spent some time connecting with the outside world. It was just after 10:30am when we had our first beverage on the beach... It's 5 o'clock somewhere right!

I got a message from my sister, Robyn, reminding me to try not to be the drunk annoying auntie at the wedding... So I tried to contain myself!
After about 5 hours on the beach it was time to get to the wedding... Right by the beach bar... Very convenient. ;)
The wedding was beautiful. The weather was awesome and the bride and groom were stunning!

Kent nervously awaiting his bride!

Oh there she is!!!

Her dress was Devine!!!

The couldn't keep their hands off each other!!! It was so cute.
It was a very personal ceremony. There was not a dry eye in the place.

Finally husband and wife!!!

After a very tasty supper, we danced on the beach. Actually, they played our wedding song so Mike and I had a private dance on the beach at sunset... Very romantic.

During the party we were finally able to connect with Mak and the girls via facetime!!! It great to see them and they got to see part of the wedding festivities!
After the party was slowing down I put my phone in the secret phone holder (you know, where every girl keeps her phone) and Mike and I went of a walk along the beach. Some of the waves caught us by surprise so we ended up pretty wet! But it was fun.
When we finally got back to the room and started undressing my phone was no where to be found!
We were pretty sure it was in the ocean :( In our drunken state we searched but the phone could not be found. I crappy end to a perfect day.
After we crawled into bed I prayed to St. Jude, the saint of hopeless cases. "Please St.Jude just put my phone somewhere that I can find it!"

Day three: Las Caletas

For some reason I did not feel very chipper this morning but we had to get up and moving since we had booked an excursion with Liz to Las Caletas. This is a private beach with many activities to do and a very yummy lunch.
The boat ride there was not so fun for me. It was quite long and rough... Or at least it seemed that way in my hungover condition. The sun was shining for the beginning of the ride but after that we did not see it for the rest of the day... Although the water and air was warm.

We saw a momma and baby humpback whale on the way to the beach! Man they are huge!!

After I had lunch (which was awesome) and my first cocktail of the day I was ready to play. Mike played with a monkey (not his monkey ;) and we went double kayaking and snorkeling.

I loved snorkeling... It is just so very peaceful.
Once we returned to our resort we had a quick shower and went down to one of the cafes at the resort. We are never organized enough to make reservations to the good restaurants on the resort. The meals I have eaten on resort have been ok but nothing amazing. After I looked at the menu I decided I didn't want to eat there.. So I made a big embarrassing fuss in front of the in laws ... Mike and I headed downtown to find "good" food!

The food at La Distillera on the Malecon was extraordinary! I had the Tequila Shrimp and Mike had Salt Crusted Beef Tenderloin Wrapped in bacon... They both were cooked in front of us. We even had live entertainment at the table!

After a walk along the Malecon we headed back to the resort where we had a drink or two then we headed to our nicely cleaned room for the evening.

Cute elephant left for us by the cleaning lady!

Tomorrow... The big wedding!!!

NOTE: all cards and what not worked perfectly today... Guess that means I can barter tomorrow!!

Mexico - Day Two... The blurrrr....

Day two didn't start out too great ... We walked from our resort to Walmart a few blocks away where there was a cultural festival and market going on.. Lots of nice stuff.
We decided to go into Walmart to get some allergy stuff which I forgot. When we went to pay neither our credit card nor our debit card worked... Luckily Mike's mom was with us and paid for us...
When we returned to the hotel we noticed that our room was not cleaned again... Eventhough the attached room (Liz and Amy's room) was cleaned... So we complained.
Liz and Amy were mad because they did not have ocean view so they wanted to moved... But if they moved we had to move... So we packed up our stuff and moved to a much smaller room with a less appealing view.

We checked the Internet and yes we had money to spend so we said "screw it... Let's get drunk" so we found the hot pool with the swim up
Bar at the adjoining resort and did just that... The rest of the day was a blur...

Mexico - THE Holiday Day one

We arrived in Mexico early Friday morning. We safely made it through customs and out of the airport and onion the bus to our resort.. Luckily most of the "time share people were gone he for the night. The Golden Crown Paradise Resort was all quiet and at peace until we arrived ... What a rowdy crew!!
After we watched the young bunch frolic in the pool we headed to our room.
Luckily the morning brought fog and cloud sober didn't feel too guilty when we slept in! As the sky began to clear at 10 am or so we finally rolled out of bed.

The view from our room was beautiful. We went down to the lobby and was "oriented" by the information person... At least we got a map of the resort... Didn't need the sales pitch though.
Then for our meeting with Jorge who was our contact for Transat... Got us to thinking we should take a couple more tours!!
Mike and I felt adventurous so we head north down the beach. When we got to the end of the beach we followed a walk way and headed into the neighborhood. After we got to know the hood we decide to hit the beach...

We forgot to take our insulated cups so we were drinking our drinks quickly so they would stay cold! ;)
I ended up running up to the room to get our cups and the super awesome mini speaker dock for my iPhone that Dana P said we should take. She was sooo right.
After a day on the beach where we watched a bunch of the group parasail Mike and I started walking the beach south. We walked for about half an hour before we decided to go into a resort and hail a cab. We decide however to head to the Malacon (downtown board walk) and check it out.
We walked around. Ate at Senoir Frogs and went to a market where we both bought a pair of sandals. Mine are soo cute!
Now it is 9pm. Mike is sleeping on the couch and I am listening to the laughter at the bar downstairs... Yep we are party animals!! ;)
I am not sure what tomorrow holds since I have pretty much done everything I wanted to do all in the first day!!! I can't believe we just wandered around off resort so much... So much for being chicken tourists and just sticking around the resort the entire time!!!

Life is great!

Well 2012 started without a hitch. The girls and I are enjoying our last few days before school starts. Luckily the girls have dance practice these next couple days so we can get back into routine. We have slipped into the stay up until 2 am and sleep until noon sleep pattern! School will be a shock!

If only the Game of Life was reality!! I kick butt at that game!!!

The marking fairies haven't visited my house yet! :( I have some work ahead of me... Maybe I will still have some late nights!