Cancun 2022 - Day 5 - Weds Mar 9

 We shut down last night at 10.  I finished the book I brought and Sandy is almost done with puzzle #1.  I was up before 7 having breakfast.  My bride joined me about 8:30 and we were on the sundeck by 9:15.

Lunch was at the Char Hut.  Sandy had chicken nachos and I had the hamburgesa.  We reapplied the sunscreen and were back on the deck from 1 - 5.  To the room for showers and then off to the shuttle for dinner reservations at The Captain's Cove.  The menu has changed, so what we thought we were going to have there did not pan out for us.

We started with appetizers and then Sandy had the shrimp spaghetti.  I had the fresh catch of the day, blackened.  We believe our waiter said it was snapper.  Both meals were excellent.

We returned to the hotel bar where Sandy had a drink with alcohol - see her edited photo below.  We watched the end of the first Big Ten basketball game between Nebraska and Northwestern.  The bar TVs get the BigTen Network - our rooms do not.  Looks like we will be spending some time in the bar this Friday when Purdue plays.

It sprinkled twice today, but not for more than 2 minutes either time.  The wind picked up a little, but it reached 87 F (30.5 C) with mostly clear skies.  We spend most of our time in the lounge chairs getting as much vitamin D as we can.

Not much new.  Repeat this day again tomorrow.

I zoomed in on this photo so it's a bit grainy.
My goal was to show our daily sun.  Tough to see.

This is looking off our balcony to the S.
Here you can see how thin the island of Cancun really is.
On the left is the ocean.  On the right is the freshwater lagoon.
Not much there, eh?


This is our lunch view today.  Nice!


Looking out over the lagoon after the sun went down.
This was during our dinner tonight.

This is the original photo our waiter took that I cropped above.

Sandy took this photo from our table this evening.
It was just awful having to eat here, in shorts, enjoying drinks.  Awfully Nice!

Sandy's edited photo, showing her drink tonight.
You think it had alcohol in it?  Yep.






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