Note the picture. When we arrived in Cancun we noticed and admired the giant Mexican flag waving over all. Today we noticed it was at what appeared half-mast. We started asking---who died---we figured some Mexican diplomat or someone famous had died. Or perhaps they just found out Elvis was dead. Turned out when we finally found out what had happened, the answer was “The crank had broken”, only in Mexico. Hopefully they’ll have the crank fixed by Tuesday night for Mexican Independence Day. (just for the record, looked out the door and the crank is fixed today Monday)
We started this morning lazily getting up, as we desired, and having nice breakfast from our ordered supplies. I went “native” by having a some tortillas briefly cooked on the stove burner, then filled with a slice of cheese and Oscar Meyer turkey ham. “I put the whole pile back on the stove burner for a minute and then ate it with some great salsa we got from the grocery supply store.
Our personal concierge Beto called us and noted we hadn’t made it to the 8:30 am “orientation”. I chuckled and told him we didn’t usually get up that early when traveling. He asked if he could come up and give us our “presentation”. I said OK but told Jerry if he was here more than 10 minutes Vickie would pretend she was sick. Turned out he was a great guy and we had a good time talking about the cool things to do here. He hooked us up with some free stuff, and gave us lots of local directions and hints. He told us a great joke that we found out all the Concierges use: The girls had asked him how to get to the local Wally Mart. In the process of telling them he added “Do you know the difference between a Wal-Mart in Mexico and a Wal-Mart in the US? No, well in Mexico all the employees are legal residents. Boom-Sha.
At noon we went down for the welcome party on the beach, and had fun participating in some craziness. (slamming beers might have been involved) We later adjourned down the beach to a great palapa on the water. The afternoon was spent in and out of the water with the nice waiters bringing us liquid refreshment from the beach bar. My favorite was the Mucho Grande Banana Monkey. We had a really big time hanging out in the Caribbean Sea as Jerry replaced his missing hair with reddish green seaweed. Somehow in his blue granny sunglasses and red seaweed hair he looked like David Caruso on CSI Miami.
Brendito ordered us a plate of Nachos Grande to quell our mid afternoon hunger. It came as a large plate topped with Pico de Gallo, guacamole, shredded meat, cheese, and very tasty jalapeños. They seem to have two types of jalapeños here. One type is fruity and tasty with a little heat. The other type, which we had last night at dinner, is very fiery. Speaking of dinner last night, after getting pretty rowdy at the pool bar, we went back to the room for showers to get rid of the day’s worth of sand and suntan lotion. We then headed back down to the resort restaurant to enjoy Taco Night. This consisted of a very interesting buffet and small Mexican themed salad bar. The food was tasty, not too spicy,(except the fiery jalapeños) and indigestion was had by all.
During dinner we met and were entertained (not) by this white blonde frizzy haired lady who seemed to know everything there was to know about everything. I stopped talking to her when at one point she said her father was a rocket scientist. Tomorrow I’m going to get her a job talking to terminal insomniacs at the mental hospital.
For Monday, we plan to make use of the free sailboats they offer here. Also the girls are headed to downtown Cancun via the 7.5 peso bus (57 cents at the current exchange rate) to purchase exactly the right “Mexican dress” to wear to the Tuesday night Independence Day fiesta. Of course they asked this really hot, fiery little Mexican girl who works here what she was going to wear and she told them “jeans and a cowgirl hat” Go figure.
More later,
wes
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