Well that was a nice little diversion;\u00a0 We spent a “long weekend” down in Playa del Carmen celebrating Donique’s 40th birthday.\u00a0 We flew out early Wednesday morning on Frontier, which was our first time on that airline.\u00a0 They got high marks in my airline rating system, which has admittedly low expectations.\u00a0 Pretty much “Get me there on time and don’t lose my luggage.”\u00a0 Sounds easy enough, but I don’t have a very good success rate with it.\u00a0 Anyway…\u00a0 We took off from KC around 7:30, and were checked into the hotel and sitting in sand by 12:30.\u00a0 That includes the roughly 45 minute drive from Cancun to Playa.\u00a0 Sweet!<\/p>\n
I guess I’m obligated to give some type of summary of the trip, although I don’t suppose it has to be overly detailed, or for that matter even factual.\u00a0 We flew down with the Martins, and caught a shuttle service to our hotel, the Gran Porto Real<\/a>.\u00a0 We’ve stayed there once before, and it’s high on our short list of “Places We Would Go Back To.”\u00a0 We settled into “beach mode” right off the bat, and then were joined later by our friends David & Jill, who flew in from Texas, and Ed & Kim<\/a> came in from Denver.\u00a0 All your worldly needs are for the most part included in the price of the hotel, so we spent the vast majority of our time sitting in chairs on the beach.\u00a0 The one exception was Donette’s birthday, when we actually ventured off the resort and went to some club in downtown Playa.\u00a0 Good times, although I found it rather hard to adhere to my cardinal vacation rule of “don’t attract attention” when walking around with four girls in pink boas.\u00a0 (Yeah, thanks for that Kelly.)\u00a0 Other than that, regarding the rest of the trip, there were no events that I wish to retell, or that you want to hear.\u00a0 I can vaguely say that the birthday girl kept me busy with her rather over-the-top hi-jinx, and the Mexican jails aren’t really as bad as I’ve heard.<\/p>\n We flew back home Sunday afternoon;\u00a0 Wow, was THAT a rough transition.\u00a0 We spent the morning sitting on the beach in 85 degree weather, then 3 hours later we’re scraping ice off the car at KCI.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 It was late enough in the evening that we just went home and went to bed.\u00a0 This morning we woke up to the same stupid Van Morrison song that we’ve been too lazy to change for the last 5 years, made a pot of coffee and ate my usual bowl of Special K, and shuffled off to work.\u00a0 Ahhhh, just like we never left.\u00a0 Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well that was a nice little diversion;\u00a0 We spent a “long weekend” down in Playa del Carmen celebrating Donique’s 40th birthday.\u00a0 We flew out early Wednesday morning on Frontier, which was our first time on that airline.\u00a0 They got high marks in my airline rating system, which has admittedly low expectations.\u00a0 Pretty much “Get me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}