Cancun Day 5 - WEDS 16 MAR 2016 - Date Night

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 time.

Wa means Japanese and Gyu means cattle.  It is a type of beef, like Kobe.  Very, very tender and flavorful - but at a price (2X the normal cut price).

Sandy did take some beautiful sunset pictures tonight.  See below.

Back to the room after restocking our fridge with soda.  No basketball games on here.  NatGeo for us.

Cancun, MX sunset from Puerto Modero Wednesday, 16 MAR 2016

Close-up of same sunset

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