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| My mom's first trip out of the country! |
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| Birthday girls at it again! |
With only an approximate two hour flight, this trip was starting off right. We found our bus nice and easy and arrived to our resort not much later. The weather was fantastic and we couldn't have asked for better. Playa del Carmen is absolutely fascinating because ultimately it is one long stretch of road with resorts on either side. One abuts the ocean, the other does not. Ours abutted!
We checked in to our rooms and promptly changed into suits! Time to...wait for chairs to open up on the beach...get drinks delivered or picked up...think about how many people have peed in the pool you're in because it's the isolated one with the bar in it.
Our first day was uneventful, as they ought to be, but our second dawned a bit differently. I strapped on my sneakers and decided I would take a jog/walk around the resort as there was a very cool rainforest right in the center of it. I made my way along the path and swung back up to the front. Here's where things got interesting...considering I had just jogged along uneven terrain, surely walking on flat ground wouldn't present an issue to me, should it?
Alas...my right foot stepped just awkwardly enough onto a dividing space between slabs of marble and slid right down to the bone. Bone, meet hard rocks...hard rocks, *bleep* you. I stood stock still for a minute trying to determine what curse word I should say and whether or not I had broken my ankle. The latter seemed unlikely and the first I determined would be S-H-I-T. Over and over and over again. Really? Really universe? The FIRST morning of a beach trip? Ya gonna do me like that?
Yes....yes the universe did do me like that and my ankle quickly swelled to tennis ball sized. I hobbled back to my room to my ever present tune of S-H-I-T where my good friend Nikki was there, already resting her previously injured foot. What a pair we were with our opposite feet propped above us on the bed, iced over and downing pain pills. Son. Of. A. BISCUIT. We laughed but really we were sad about our situations, and then we laughed again because WHAT ARE THE ODDS. Her foot was also injured in a very unexpected way. #thisiswhywearefriends
We made the most of the rest of our trip with ample beach and sun time...
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| Gorgeous! |
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| A fantastic read and it was one of the resort loaners! |
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| I AH AHHHH'd at him. He displayed his tail. Did I just get asked out on a date? |
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| We named him Elvis. |
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| Watched the cloudy sunset the next morning. |
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| My mom had a fantastic time and there's nothing more I could have asked for! Even with the guy trying to jimmy open our patio door... |
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| My sister from another mister (and a great and funny mister he was). |
1) Do not do an excursion...and we didn't really except to go into town and eat and sketch shop. Leather purse for me, and Mexican moo moo for Silv. Definite improvement over Paradise Isle.
2) Try to travel in May next time...it was still a bit cool in the water!
3) Continue to travel with great companions. CHECK!
4) Don't roll your ankle. How do I keep getting injured on or around vacation time??? Fix that, ok?
Happy 30th to me and my great friend, Silva! Here's to sixty more!
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