Vacation Time!

Slept in a little later this morning.  Up about 8 o’clock-ish.  Some went for breakfast and others to the sun deck.  We chose this option as it gave us more wind to keep us cool.  It reached 86 F (30 C) with scattered clouds which beats the heck out of the weather in Indiana right now.  At home they had to push snow to clear off the sidewalks for school!  We are winning for sure. We stayed at the pool until a bit after 11 and then headed next door for lunch again.  After lunch, Andy beat Austin 21-1 in corn hole before Alex an I made it back from reapplying sunscreen.  Then Austin and I beat those other losers 2-1.  We finally got Austin a “win.”  He just needed me as a partner. We got in the pool to cool down and stayed until about 3 when the basketball goal was put up.  There was some March Madness basketball in the pool with announcers.  Then it went into movie trivia.  We all bailed by 4 to go take showers. Dinner was ...

My bladder got me up at 6:30 am today.  I read about 50% more of my book before others showed their face in our room.  We slathered up and I headed to the pool to join Kathy, Alex, Lorra and Adam.  Sandy, Andy, and Michelle went to breakfast.  Austin was not moving yet. Alex and I played some cornhole to warm up.  Alex scored one point in three games!  Not much of a warm-up for him.  Then Andy and Austin joined us and we teamed up old guys versus young guys.  The old ones beat the young guys 2-0.  Then we switched to me and Alex versus the Albitz boys.  Then we realized who the loser was = Austin.  He never won a game today!  Me?  I’m still undefeated. We stayed at the pool until lunch and went next door to the original resort part to have lunch.  Their menu, while similar, is more to our liking.  The temps reached 84 F (29 C) today, mostly sunny, with a light breeze if you weren’t at the lap pool. After lunch wa...

 It’s Purdue’s Spring Break.  So we grabbed nephew Austin and several others and headed S to Cancun! The travel day, Saturday Mar 16, started EARLY.  Up at 2 am.  I’m on the road by 3 am.  Waiting at check-in lines and security for a 6:20 flight south.  Arrived in Cancun at 8:30 local (one hour behind home).  Got one big van to take us to the Royal Haciendas at Riviera Maya.  Rooms were not ready, but we grabbed lunch and drinks at the poolside restaurant.  The we got our rooms - two suites adjacent.   Some hit the pool deck, others took naps, others attempted to watch the Purdue men’s basketball team play in the Big Ten championship tournament.  We grabbed dinner right at 6 pm when the restaurant opened for business and early bedtimes for all! Ok - for the time being, I cannot upload photos.  This has happened once before and I do not recall the fix but I will document it here once I get it figured out and upload the photos. ...

 Well it’s Happy Birthday to my older bride today!  Lots of BD wishes showed up on FB and on her phone. Turns out it was Groundhog Day.  Same as about all week.  Pool deck by 9 with almost half, if not more, of the chairs still empty and available.  Stayed there until lunch then back to soak up more sunshine. After a nap, my bride says something stupid:  Shall we boost your ego by letting you win at corn hole again?  First of all, my ego don’t need no boost.  Second, would it really be a boost if we already know the outcome?  Sure enough, she loses 5 to 0 with two skunks!  She could not throw worth crap today.  Fact. So we hit the pool to cool off and she says the next dumbest thing I’ve heard: Yippee, I was hoping you would throw me in the cold pool - or something like that.  It didn’t happen, for the record, as I am still married! Dinner and relaxing in the room.  Sandy finished the first Harry Potter book.  She’s r...

 One of us got up at 7 while the female side of this partnership slept until 8:30.  We went down to the breakfast buffet because we are going to have a late lunch, because we are having a late dinner at the steak house - reservations at 7 pm and that’s late for us.   We stayed on the kiddie pool deck this morning and for the first time this week there was a steady breeze.  Thank goodness too as it would have been even hotter to lay out in 86 degree F (30 C) weather.  Which, BTW is 80 degrees warmer than home right now!!!  We are going to freeze our little backsides off when we return.  Any sympathy?  Didn’t think so… We called it quits about 4:30 and took showers (plural, much to my dismay).  This was so that we could be in the lobby for the Christmas party and the lighting of the tree at 5.  We did buy a raffle ticket as the resort was raising money for their kids’ foundation.  Prizes included: very expensive bottles of liquor, two...

 We got up this morning and spent thru lunch working through the transition from Royal Resorts to Holiday Inn.  Probably a good thing too as my five-head had plenty of sun on it.  We think we know how it all works and we delayed the decision as long as we could, but by the 18th it would be a done deal anyway.  So on we moved.  Don’t feel like we lost in any way. Made it to the pool deck after eating lunch by the pool.  Stayed there until after 5.  Took showers and then went down for Italian food night at the resort restaurant.  Back to the room and there is a Disney show playing on the stage outside our deck.  Mostly for the kiddos, but we knew all the songs! We did get some more corn hole in this afternoon and the results are as to be expected.  I won 4 of 4 games.  One game was even a skunk: 21 - 0.  My bride did keep a few close though, 21 - 19.  Tough to score when even She was hitting three-baggers.  What’s gotte...