Cancun Day 3 - Sunday 18 MAR

We hit the sack at 10 last night and did not roll out again until 10 this morning.  Well, Sandy was out at 10, I rolled at 11.  We walked next door to eat lunch on the pool deck.  And then we wound our way to the back corner of our pools here.  Today is the Welcome Party on the sun deck - and it was loud and crowded.  We wanted no part of that.

After the party ended, we left the pool and hit the sun deck - to get away from both the smoking and obnoxious ladies to our right.  At least they were having a good time.  Maybe clean up their language a bit?

We stayed until about 3.  Sandy thought that she had enough sun for the day.  We showered and then went to La Isla to shop.  We finally found a charger for Sandy's phone and got probably too many things for the grandbabies.  But hey, that's what grandmas and grandpas do.

We came back and ate on the deck at Captain's Cove.  We had drinks and excellent meals.  We returned to the room in enough time to get some great sunset pictures and catch up on the basketball scores.  Wow.  More upsets.  At least Purdue is still in.

Sandy downloaded a couple of books to read.  I am almost done with my second book.  I had been saving several from Dad and from Christmas to read on just this occasion.  Book reports to follow.

Here are some photos of our day...

New climbing towers, rope swings, and cargo nets over the lagoon.
Supposed to be a new "adventure" that we may have to check out.

A photo we sent to Alex while eating at The Captain's Cove.


The "nice" version of a selfie from our balcony.
We sent another copy to the kids.  Their reply was not so nice either.

The sun setting over the lagoon in Cancun, MX 3-18-2018


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