Vacation Time!

Sandy beat the maid out this morning, but that's only because she (the maid) turned off the main air conditioner.  Thus, it was 80 degrees in the living room and 70 in our bedroom - which means warm humid air meeting dry cooler air which equals water - water condensing on our return air fan and on our lights - and said water dripping onto the floor.  All this got Sandy up around 7 am.  Not me.  True Seager that I am, I slept right through it. It was slightly overcast today, but just barely.  We hit the pool, then lunch here, then sun deck.  I did go out in the ocean to say goodbye for this trip.  It was rough today. We hit the road about 5:15 to eat dinner at Lorenzillo's again.  We had the clams au gratin on the half shell for appetizers.  Then we each had the Trafalgar - that's Lorenzillo's name for French Onion Soup.  Then we had stuffed meats.  I had the grouper, Sandy the steak.  Each was stuffed with shrimp, lobster, and mushrooms, all covered in a bearnaise s

Maid got us out of bed this morning at 9:50.  We hit the pool until lunch. We walked next door to Paco's Taco's.  We ordered the chilpolte chicken nachos as an appetizer. Sandy got the chimmi-chunga and I got the Gringas (pork tacos with pineapple).  I ordered these for Kathy and Shelby since they were not here.  I passed on the orange sauce, which after just a taste, burned my mouth for the duration of the meal. We saw the cousin doing paintings on tile.  What Sandy thought was a surfboard in the painting was actually a boat - and not a good rendition of either.  We passed on the tile art all around. After lunch we hit the sun deck and I went to the ocean.  After a nap, we headed to the paint shop - they had a Nemo bank - but alas, since they are closed Saturdays, there was not enough time.  Oh well.  We'll just have to come back. We took showers and then the bus to La Distilleria for dinner.  We each ordered a different version of the flambe steak.  They cooked th

Up and out at about the usual this morning.  However, our maid likes to come earlier and earlier each morning.  She was here at 9:45 today.  Oh well.  We hit the chairs next to the pool bar. I did take a moment to type some snarky comments on FB to sister Joan on her BD. We stayed there until lunch, where we walked next door and ate outside under Paco's Taco's.  The wait staff had on green hats for St. Paddy's Day.  They also served us green chips with our salsa.  Back to the room to reslather with sun screen and then off to the sun deck.  We spent the rest of the afternoon there.  I wore my brilliant orange PF shirt today, so anyone watching the hotel camera should have been able to pick me out. Dinner tonight was walking over to el Cap-i-tan.  Sandy took a photo of the mints and texted them to the kids.  That's because she is a meanie-head. We did not get to watch the Purdue game, but saw the outcome.  Texts and FB indicate that the problem lies with the co

Got up and hit the pool by 10.  Sandy moved us down by the water aerobics pool.  And our new neighbor was a cigar smoker.  We moved to the pool bar.  We ate lunch outside next to the pool bar. We reslathered with sun screen and hit the ocean - yes, even Sandy got in the ocean. We stayed there until it got too hot.  Moved back up to the sun deck. I was wet most of the day:  pool to ocean to pool and back again. If you are watching the hotel camera, look for my Pheasants Forever shirt - it's bright orange.  We are on the sun deck in the afternoons. After showers we decided to try a new restaurant for dinner.  So we walked down to Puerto Modero, an Argentinian steak house (there was no chicken on the menu at all!).  Sandy tried the 13 oz Wagyu beef tenderloin (ordered medium - which was about tartar - and I had to finish it).  I tried the Alaskan King Crab legs in tempura.  Overall a nice meal at a nice price.  We agreed we would take anyone back there to eat with us again some

Slept in a little bit today as well.  Headed for the pool at 10.  Our seat mates next to us were smokers so we relocated to the pool bar. We ate lunch here at the hotel, sitting on the outside deck across from the pool bar.  We spent the rest of the day on the sun deck.  We alternated from pool to sun deck to beach to sun deck, etc.  Some of us spent more time in the water today than on the lounge chair.  I'll let you decide which one of us that was.  The other one?  She spent more time in the chair than in the pool, but she did get wet at least 3 times. I took a photo of the beach.  Up until today there has been ZERO seaweed.  The hotel had to scrounge around to find enough to create their welcome sign.  Today there was some, but I still would consider it none, relatively speaking. We came up to the room right at 3 today for showers.  We've taken in plenty of sun and are sure to have some peeling and dry skin to contend with.  It's 82 F and very warm.  Thank goodness

Had to do a restart - pictures now working.  Enjoy! Had our waiter take this picture for us. Yet another gorgeous sunset over the Lagoon in Cancun, MX. The sign reads. "I fed the Fish at Lorenzillo's" which in fact I did. And, the fishes fed me too.

Slept in just a little today - but did not sleep well last night.  Still tired.  We hung around the room until 11 and then went out for shopping and lunch.  We got all of our shopping done! I tried to get Grandma to pick just ONE outfit for Will - she said Why?  We're grandparents and we're supposed to buy lots and lots....and we did.... Back to the room for naps.  They were wonderful!  Read for a bit too. Went out to Lorenzillo's for dinner.  Took some great sunset pictures. Back at the room for some TV and catch up on FB and email. Tonight was LOI for the boys.  We tried to send texts and see how it went.  I don't think the texts went through. Forecast shows that maybe we'll see some rain tomorrow or late Wednesday.  We'll see. And now I cannot get my pictures to load on this blog.  Will reset and try again.

We went to bed last night here at 8 pm.  We got up this morning at 10 am.  14 hours of sleep.  Pretty rare - especially for Sandy.  Yes, we were tired.  Refreshed, we tried to apply liberal amounts of sun screen before hitting the pool.  And at 11 am, we had to take what we could get.  It was crowded. And just so you know, Cancun does not change time zones.  So while you all in Indiana "sprung ahead" an hour, we did not lose an hour of vacation.  Thus, we are now one hour behind you at home. We went next door to eat lunch and then back to the pool.  I ran into my SCUBA instructor - the one who certified me.  We chatted about new dive possibilities.  No surprise that Sandy is out. We laid around, skipped the Welcome Party (although I did walk down and get a free beer), and then headed upstairs at 4 to shower.  We applied sunscreen only once today - which is not a good idea.  We both have places that are tender and red.  It was in the lower 80's today, but the bre

After a very short night, we rolled out at 3:30 am for the Indy International airport.  Crowds were busy, but not record breaking.  It is, after all, Spring Break. Loaded the airplane, no problem.  Then we waited.  Something mechanical was wrong - and we were waiting on the mechanics.  Seems that the guy across the aisle from us WAS a Delta mechanic.  He went out and fixed the problem.  We left 1 hour behind schedule. We arrived in Atlanta at 8:30 and pulled up toward our gate.  Stop.  Gate was not working.  Had to switch gates.  We laughed that the door would probably be frozen shut and we would not be able to even get off the plane. We grabbed the train and went directly to our connection.  They were already loading.  We put wheels on the ground in Cancun at 12:10 pm. We got off the plane okay, but the lines in Immigration were enormous.  We had never seen lines this long.  We hit the far right line and never stopped moving.  It was ultra smooth.  Our luggage was waiting on u

Just me and mama this time, heading off to Cancun for a week of R&R. You know how the Help Desk will tell you to turn your computer off and back on again?  That reset also works with your body.  We are heading off to unplug. I will do my best to keep this blog updated while we are out.  Sadly, there will not be much to tell. The weather is set to be about 85 F all week.  We're gonna eat when we're hungry, sleep when we're tired, and soak up some sun by the pool - for 7days.  This blog will get boring. Kathy and Alex are staying at our place and taking care of the pets. Grandma Sandy told me over dinner tonight that she is already missing her little grandson Will.  Kathy and Alex might have to post FB pics for us. More when we know it.  Leaving Sat, 12 MAR.  Return Sun, Mar 20.