Vacation Time!

Today I rolled out at 8:30 am.  It took a while for Mama to get into gear.  We hit the beach at 9:30.  And yes, we have been spending a lot of time at the beach.  It's more quiet, and it has a better breeze.  As a bonus, Grandma gets in the ocean at least once a day. Along with that, we need to schedule an intervention upon our return.  Today, Sandy had her THIRD alcoholic drink this trip - and it was a Double!  She claims that I had three before lunch, three with lunch, three after lunch, and three with dinner.  Tis true.  Would argue if I could.  But why is all the rum gone??? It was a poster card perfect day.  82 F.  Light breeze.  Few clouds.  Just plain awful.  I said the week went quickly.  Sandy said it was because I slept the entire time.  Also true.  She is ready to get home, mainly because she has a bunch of work to get done for Christmas. Our plane flies out of here at Noon tomorrow.  We have a LONG layover in Charlotte because American Airlines changed our flights

We slept in until almost 10 am today.  We made it to the pool by 10:10, but the maid was chomping at the bit to get in and clean our room.  We stayed by the pool until lunch at the pool restaurant, Char Hut.  Then we hit the beach. The beach was nice because we had a beautiful breeze.  However, our neighbors to the S were very loud.  Everyone within 10 huts heard their stories whether you wanted to or not.  We bailed to the sun deck at 3. We came back to the room at 4:30 and took showers.  We had reservations at Casa Rolandi (Sandy's favorite Italian place on the island).  And since it was her 52nd birthday, I let her pick just this one time where we were going to eat. We came back to the room with coffee and apple crumble dessert and are searching for football on TV. One more day and we return to the land of the working people... The sun going down over the lagoon as we have dinner tonight The pool next door at night The front of our hotel / condo decorated

So last night, I went to bed at 8 pm.  Sandy racked out at 10.  We got up at 9 am today.  The weather - it be the same.  Zero clouds in the morning.  Hits 80 and some clouds come in to help keep the heat down.  This afternoon, we did sit on the beach. I finished one book and am half-way thru #2.  Sandy is half-way thru book #1. We hit the room at 4.  Took showers and then went to La Isla for shopping.  We got more than what we went for, but nothing we couldn't live without! We did do the wax museum.  It was expensive, like $27 / person.  Some of the figures were well done.  Some totally fake or piss poor renditions.  In the end, we were glad we went thru but do not have to do it again. We came back to the hotel and ate dinner here.  Wednesday is usually Date Night and for dinner tonight - it was Asian food:  sushi, sweet & sour, noodles, chow mein, etc.  I had a wonderful meal.  Sandy ordered from the menu. We came back to the room and spent some FaceTime with Hadley

Well I let Sleeping Beauty get some more bed time today.  I rolled her out at 9 am.  We hit the kiddie pool here on the 'large' side of the hotel.  Since I am all but fried on my face, I stayed in the shade and read a book. We came to the room to get dry clothes and then ate lunch at the veranda here at the hotel.  Following lunch, we hit the kiddie pool at the small side to avoid the crowds.  The sun left us at 3 so we moved to the sun deck.  Once there, we had our personal waiter, who heard from the guys working yesterday that we are good tippers, so he was on the lookout for us. Back to the room after 4.  We took showers and then I finished book #1.  We grabbed a cab and had dinner at the Captain's Cove.  Fantastic food overlooking the lagoon. Back to the room and we have basketball games on the TV.  Sleeping Beauty is catching up on FB, while I update any one of you out there that happens to read this. Weather is fantastic - 63 F tonight.  High of 80 tomorrow. 

One of us, having fought off the Pee Genie twice, finally got up at 7:30 this morning.  I turned on ESPN and opened the blinds, slightly.  The other one of us complained - whined even.  I can't sleep, she said, through her snores.  By 8 she was up too.  Funny.  Those things never bother me - sleep right through them I can. We hit the pool until roughly 11.  Then ate lunch. Then we changed back into our suits and hit the sun deck.  We traveled among the pool, the deck, and the beach all afternoon.  I even took a napper or two.  The beach here at the Royal Sands is very wide.  And, you can walk about 100 yards out into the ocean before getting your belly wet - it's that shallow! We came back to the room about 4.  It was still 87 outside.  We showered and then walked down to La Distilleria - one of our favorite restaurants.  Back to the room about 7:30.  Hoping we can last to catch some Monday Night football.  It may be napper time again. The sun going down over the lagoo

This morning we got up to a phone call, reminding us that we had breakfast at 8:30 - which included an update / presentation.  60 minutes they promised.  Ha.  We know how that goes. We did have very nice people filling us in on what is happening with the new Royal Uno.  They are asking current members to help fund the upgrade.  They are begging owners to buy more points.  What do you get?  We ended up with two weeks' worth of points, 2 years of waived maintenance fees, all-inclusive paid this week.  And we will have those 2 weeks for the next 36 years.  This took until lunch to sign all the paperwork.  So we went to lunch and then the sun deck. I took several naps on the sun deck.  We came back up to shower and then had a Caribbean buffet dinner here at the hotel.  We found out that Captain Morgan IS included with our all-inclusive alcohol package.  Look out Liver! Sun setting over the lagoon  Night shot of the pool as seen from our balcony This was our view as

Our flight left Indianapolis at 5:10 am on Saturday, 30 NOV.  That means that we left Mulberry at 2:30 am.  A little bit later than Sandy wanted, but we made it okay.  Lots of traffic for that early in the AM, but it was speedy - even in the rain. We parked at Fly & Ride and took a shuttle to the airport.  Only one side of Security was open, but not many people.  Passed through quickly enough that we had an hour to spare once we made it to our gate. We flew into Charlotte, NC.  The C gates were all under construction.  We did not have to walk far to get to our D gate.  We grabbed some snacks and were off again.  The planes were not that full at all. I do not remember much of either flight.  I do not recall the safety briefing, as I was out.  I just stayed up all night instead of trying to catch any sleep.  But after 25 hours, I was beyond tired and crashed quickly. We arrived in Cancun by 11:30 am and to our hotel, the Royal Sands, by Noon.  But as we checked in, we were to