Dolphins

I'll title this post "dolphins". It's the one good thing from our Cancun trip a week ago. We set out to Cancun for a relaxing vacation by the beach at our "five star - all inclusive Oasis Cancun resort". The pics on the internet looked great, the price was unbeatable, and we were ready to be pampered and relaxed.

We arrived in Cancun Monday around 12:30 - went to check into our hotel and found out that check in time was 3pm - and they were sticklers about it. They at least gave us our arm bands to get us into the resort restaurants for lunch but there was no getting in the room until 3:00. Ok, we can work with this - so off we go to find one of the restaurants on the map - a buffet international - that should be good. The one thing I can say about the food there is - where are the condiments?? Pizza with hardly any sauce, pancakes without maple syrup (but they did offer melted honey or caramel???), "mexican restaurant" without the mexican food - seriously no burritos, tacos, nachos, nothing........... I could go on but I'll spare you the drama :-). So we picked at our lunch and then sat in the lobby - open air lobby (no AC) waiting for 2 hours. We finally get our room key and head on up - the maid was cleaning the room - so after another 30 minutes we get inside. Whoa - this isn't our room - it looks nothing like it did on the internet. Granted the floors and bathroom walls were made of marble, the rest of the walls cement/stucco - but the room smelled like mold from the air duct in the ceiling, and little tiny ants & spiders were making homes on the floor and the dresser. Needless to say we didn't start out the vacation in the greatest of moods.

After getting used to the icky food and awful room - we decided it was still vacation - we still had our own beach (our resort had a huge chunk of the beach that was just theirs - with cute little grass umbrellas to sit under, fresh beach towels whenever you wanted them, and refreshments within a little walking distance on either side of you) and a beautiful ocean to enjoy. So that we did -

Tuesday was overcast so we of course said to each other " this is great, the sun isn't scorching hot" so we continued to sit by the pool reading our books ALL DAY. Tuesday night we slathered the aloe vera on our sunburns received on the overcast day.
Thursday we were off to the aquarium to swim with dolphins!!!! FUN!!! We sat up in the stands watching them do tricks for about an hour and then....We swam with them in the water! They are so cute - I finished the day with a new resolve - I want a dolphin! :-) I think it only fitting to have skipper the dog and flipper the dolphin. =) After the aquarium we walked around downtown for a while in the little shops and decided to grab dinner at Jimmy Buffet's margaritaville. Wouldn't you know that the day we choose to go there - it's a kids party through most of our dinner - so here we are in MARGARITAVILLE surrounding by screaming children. What are the odds???

Friday we spent the entire day by the beach (nate mainly staying under the umbrellas b/c by this time he was looking quite red). And then again boycotted the restaurants offered by our resort and went downtown again for dinner - Chocolate city. Oh yes - all of my life I knew there could be a place founded on chocolate - and we found it. It smelled like chocolate when we walked in, everywhere you looked you saw something made of chocolate, the food was delicious - and the desserts - well the chocolate desserts were just sinful! I truly believe chocolate will be in heaven - I felt like I was there for a bit during dinner :-).
Here are some of the pics I've gotten back thus far of our dolphin excursion. :-)

The Beach...

The Dolphins.................