Mexicancun
Hey! So, if you've been visiting this website for the past five or six days (and you have, I know you have) and wondered why I hadn't posted anything, it's not because I don't love you. I love you all very much. And it's not that I had writer's block either. No, far from that, actually. Because writer's block implies you are trying to write something, and the truth is, I wasn't trying to do much of anything this past week.
Well, to be honest, what I was trying to do was decide if a Mai Tai or a Tequila Sunrise was the more appropriate beverage at 10:00 am. The answer was, and for all time will be, the Tequila Sunrise. It's got "morning" written into its very name.
I just flew back home yesterday from a 5 day trip to Cancun, Mexico, with my beautiful and fabulous mother. This trip was a gift for each other, time far away from things like cell phones, jobs, responsibilities, and of course, computers. The only real technology we faced while down there was the key-card reader on the door of our resort. That thing gave us no end of trouble, let me tell you.
So we stayed at the Dreams Resort, which is phenomenally situated on a private end of a small peninsula along the Mayan Riviera. The color of the water there is beyond anything that can be described or even photographed. It does something to your eyes when you look at it in person; it coats your soul with beauty and an overwhelming love for life. If you go to the website linked above, you get an aerial view. In the smaller inset photo, you can see a long pier/dock thingy that goes out into the water. Sunday night, right before sunset, I did a running cannonball off that dock. It was impressive.
Oh, we just had a blast. I'm sunburnt a little on my back, but that's my only complaint. And it's not much of a complaint, because I got the sunburn while snorkeling and diving down through schools of electric-colored fish. I swam with a dolphin, who gave me a kiss on the cheek and let me hold her fins while riding on her belly. We even got to dance, heh. And of course I spent a lot of time doing nothing at all, laying down on cushioned deck chairs in front of a natural ocean-water lagoon pool, feeding bananas to a lazy sea turtle that lived there. I also fed fat, friendly giant iguanas that roamed freely, hoping for some crackers or french fries from the hotel guests. I made a few new friends with humans, as well. I didn't have to feed them french fries, but we did enjoy lots of tequila.
Such a dream. I'm sad its over. It was perhaps one of the nicest vacations I've ever had. I'm so glad I got to go with my mom, too...seeing her happy and healthy was the best gift I could have had. And remembering the color of that water, reflected in her eyes, full of smiles, really was the giveaway that for a few days at least we got to enjoy paradise.
Well, to be honest, what I was trying to do was decide if a Mai Tai or a Tequila Sunrise was the more appropriate beverage at 10:00 am. The answer was, and for all time will be, the Tequila Sunrise. It's got "morning" written into its very name.
I just flew back home yesterday from a 5 day trip to Cancun, Mexico, with my beautiful and fabulous mother. This trip was a gift for each other, time far away from things like cell phones, jobs, responsibilities, and of course, computers. The only real technology we faced while down there was the key-card reader on the door of our resort. That thing gave us no end of trouble, let me tell you.
So we stayed at the Dreams Resort, which is phenomenally situated on a private end of a small peninsula along the Mayan Riviera. The color of the water there is beyond anything that can be described or even photographed. It does something to your eyes when you look at it in person; it coats your soul with beauty and an overwhelming love for life. If you go to the website linked above, you get an aerial view. In the smaller inset photo, you can see a long pier/dock thingy that goes out into the water. Sunday night, right before sunset, I did a running cannonball off that dock. It was impressive.
Oh, we just had a blast. I'm sunburnt a little on my back, but that's my only complaint. And it's not much of a complaint, because I got the sunburn while snorkeling and diving down through schools of electric-colored fish. I swam with a dolphin, who gave me a kiss on the cheek and let me hold her fins while riding on her belly. We even got to dance, heh. And of course I spent a lot of time doing nothing at all, laying down on cushioned deck chairs in front of a natural ocean-water lagoon pool, feeding bananas to a lazy sea turtle that lived there. I also fed fat, friendly giant iguanas that roamed freely, hoping for some crackers or french fries from the hotel guests. I made a few new friends with humans, as well. I didn't have to feed them french fries, but we did enjoy lots of tequila.
Such a dream. I'm sad its over. It was perhaps one of the nicest vacations I've ever had. I'm so glad I got to go with my mom, too...seeing her happy and healthy was the best gift I could have had. And remembering the color of that water, reflected in her eyes, full of smiles, really was the giveaway that for a few days at least we got to enjoy paradise.
posted by The Semi-Pro Chef at Thursday, April 13, 2006
1 Comments:
Suzanne, how did you know that dolphin was a girl?
Thank you for looking at my blog. I liked your pictures. I liked the one when you were feeding the iguanas the most. Glad you had a good vacation.
--Espen
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