I will give an honest effort at an accurate recap of our weekend in Mexico, and try to convey some sense of enthusiasm while doing so.\u00a0 The “enthusiasm” part will be the most difficult to pull off;\u00a0 I feel like I just got off the plane ten minutes ago, I’m beat.<\/p>\n
We flew out to Cabo last Thursday morning, and I do mean “morning.”\u00a0 Our flight was at 06:30, so that meant a nice early 04:00 wakeup.\u00a0 We actually did manage to drag outta bed, get on our flight, and met up with Ed & Kim in Denver for the plane to Cabo.\u00a0 The trip went remarkably well;\u00a0 We scored seats at the front of the plane which meant we were first in line at customs in Mexico.\u00a0 (I have a deep-rooted aversion to standing in long, slow lines;\u00a0 Quite possibly the only thing I picked up in the Military.)\u00a0 We breezed through that part, waded through the 2,459 “greeters,” and instantly found our pre-arranged driver standing outside the airport.\u00a0 OK, there was a very slight delay with the transportation, as we stood around waiting for a mysterious “third couple,” who never did show, then we boarded the van and made the 45 minute drive to our hotel<\/a>.\u00a0 Walked right up to the desk and checked in, put our swim suits on, and hit the pool, where we (not so remarkably) found the Martins.\u00a0 They’d been in Mexico since Monday, so they had already pretty much hit their stride.\u00a0 The first night was definitely our best effort at staying out late and partying.\u00a0 In comparison to the next three nights, we may well have even burned ourselves out right off the bat.<\/p>\n Not sure what I could really elaborate on, as far as the rest of the trip.\u00a0 The hotel pool more than met my rather low requirements for entertainment.\u00a0 I was very content to sit in the pool all day, every day, and pass the time.\u00a0 The alternative was to head down to the actual beach and sit on some sand, but the view of the beach was quite nice from the pool, and you didn’t have to run the gauntlet of vendors lying in wait as soon as your toes touched sand.\u00a0 We did leave the safety of the hotel for the obligatory trip into Cabo, which was time well-spent.\u00a0 We picked Saturday for that jaunt.\u00a0 Our full schedule could be summed up as:\u00a0 Thursday, got there around noon and celebrated the Martin’s 15th anniversary.\u00a0 Friday, celebrated Kim’s birthday in very much the same fashion as we did Martin’s anniversary, with the addition of festive room decorations and a self-styled “pub crawl” around the resort.\u00a0 Saturday, we celebrated the Martin’s anniversary and Kim’s birthday in very much the same fashion as the previous two days, with the addition of walking to Cabo.\u00a0 Sunday, the Paffs had to leave, and we just barely celebrated anything at all.\u00a0 We actually had a pretty strong start to the day but by about 11:00 it was clear we were on our decline.\u00a0 Personally I’d had enough sun for the weekend, so most my time was spent trying to find suitable shade and watching football games.\u00a0 (On Spanish-language channels, which made the few available games even more boring than they already were.)\u00a0 The diet may well have been catching up with me too.\u00a0 I have a (possibly bad) habit of trying everything available, and perhaps that’s not always a good strategy.\u00a0 For instance, I found myself quite fond of the sardines at breakfast and loaded up several each morning.\u00a0 While I may have been fond of them, the inverse wasn’t necessarily the case.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 But, being a slow learner, I went the same route every morning.\u00a0 (With potatoes, 5 or 10 different kinds of cheese, eggs, assorted sauces, mystery meats…\u00a0 Hey maybe I’m starting to figure out why I wasn’t feeling so hot towards the end of the trip.)<\/p>\n Monday we had to check out, and the entire day was spent on travel back to KC.\u00a0 We got in late last night, hence the lack of a timely update.\u00a0 All in all, a very good trip.\u00a0 Both Donette & myself gave the trip a high eight out of ten.\u00a0 The hotel was great, I’d recommend it if you have any Cabo trips in your future.\u00a0 I may even be prepared to rank it over our “favorite” place in Playa, but I’m not ready to make that bold a statement just yet.\u00a0 There is some kind of line between “extremely attentive” and “annoyingly overbearing” that I will have to study on for a bit.\u00a0 They took care of you, that was for sure.\u00a0 I know that by the time I left I was about to go Pulp Fiction on somebody.\u00a0 “Say hola one more time, I DARE you!”\u00a0 Pictures, of course,\u00a0should be\u00a0forthcoming.\u00a0 By the time I get done weeding out the ones not fit for public viewing they may well not even be worth posting, we shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I will give an honest effort at an accurate recap of our weekend in Mexico, and try to convey some sense of enthusiasm while doing so.\u00a0 The “enthusiasm” part will be the most difficult to pull off;\u00a0 I feel like I just got off the plane ten minutes ago, I’m beat. 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