{"id":59,"date":"2004-11-22T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T23:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2004-11-22T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T23:23:38","slug":"110116959998720543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/110116959998720543\/","title":{"rendered":"110116959998720543"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we made it back from Mexico safe and sound.&nbsp; We ducked out last Wednesday morning, under cover of darkness, and boarded a plane for Playa Del Carmen.&nbsp; We had some first class tickets in our hands, thanks to our Albuquerque traveling buddies Jill and David.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll say one thing, it&#8217;s a darn site closer than Hawaii: we were sitting on the beach soaking rays by 2:30 that afternoon.&nbsp; SWEET!!<\/p>\n<p>To sum up the trip, let me just say &#8220;All Inclusive.&#8221;&nbsp; That pretty much wraps it up.&nbsp; We stayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realresorts.com.mx\/Gran_Porto_Real_Resort\/\">Gran Porto Real<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll give the place an A+ under the &#8220;relaxation&#8221; category.&nbsp; My goal for the trip was to move no more than 300 yards a day under my own power, and I met or exceeded that goal each and every day.&nbsp; It was a rather stunning display of sloth even for myself.&nbsp; I did start to feel a <b>bit<\/b> bad about the situation after the first two days.&nbsp; Nobody should eat and drink that much without countering it by doing <b>some<\/b> type of physical activity.&nbsp; It just ain&#8217;t natural.&nbsp; I managed to fight through the emotional rollercoaster and stick it out &#8217;till the end though.&nbsp; Our daily agenda went something (exactly, actually) like this:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n  <LI>6:00 AM &#8211; Stumble outside and stake our claim to four premium lounge chairs, by using the international symbol of the beach towel draped over the back.&nbsp; Go back to bed.&nbsp; This was by far the closest we came to work the entire trip, taking sometimes as long as 10 minutes to accomplish, and definitely carried the most responsibility.&nbsp; We split these duties with David and Jill, every other day.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>7:30 AM &#8211; Get back out of bed, pick up clothes off floor, put them on, and go to breakfast.&nbsp; Typical breakfast consisted of a large omelet, several sausage links, assorted fruit, chunks of cheese, scrambled eggs with ham, potatoes, french toast, and a few pieces of the &#8220;meat du jour,&#8221; all covered liberally with pico de gallo and washed down with 4 cups of coffee.&nbsp; You may think I&#8217;m exaggerating&#8230; I&#8217;m not.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>9:00 AM &#8211; Switch out shorts for swim suits, shuffle out to the aforementioned lounge chairs and read the newspaper.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>10:00 AM &#8211; Everisto, our personal bartender, shows up for work and brings us a round.&nbsp; We grossly overtip him, ensuring prompt returns, and lay back in our chairs.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>1:00 PM &#8211; Lunch time gluttony, consisting of nachos, guacamole burgers, french fries swimming in copious amount of chili and cheese sauce, ceviche, and assorted other artery-cloggers, all buried under a few cups of the same awesome pico de gallo.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>4:00 PM &#8211; Nap time.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>6:00 PM &#8211; Dinner.&nbsp; Although the content varied a little more than the other meals, the portions were quite similar.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>8:00 PM &#8211; Here we mixed it up a LITTLE bit, but not a whole lot&#8230; Just kind of went with the flow.&nbsp; Check out the nightly show, sit out by the pool and chit-chat, watch a red-neck wedding, that kind of stuff.<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nThink you could hold that pace?&nbsp; Not as easy as it sounds, bub.&nbsp; Not for lounge-rookies, I&#8217;ll tell you that.&nbsp; Any oddities on the trip, you ask?&nbsp; Well&#8230; All the topless chicks kind of took me by surprise.&nbsp; Not an all-together unpleasant surprise, mind you, but it kind of threw me off my game.&nbsp; There was always that underlying feeling that something just&#8230; Wasn&#8217;t right.&nbsp; A bit unnerving.&nbsp; Plus, I think it distracted Everisto, and that&#8217;s just not good for anybody.&nbsp; We also went and saw a Michael Jackson impersonater one night.&nbsp; THAT was something to see.&nbsp; There is a very good possibility that I may live out the rest of my life regretting not getting a picture with ol&#8217; Michael.&nbsp; Would&#8217;ve been a fine keep-sake.&nbsp; Oh, oh, and I can&#8217;t forget the Red-Neck wedding, alluded to above.&nbsp; The wedding party wasn&#8217;t all that remarkable actually; relatively normal people with horrible drawls.&nbsp; But then there was Will, and he was quite a case.&nbsp; Will (pronounced &#8220;Whee-Ull&#8221;) sat out on the beach every day in a cowboy shirt, properly-formed ballcap, Wranglers, and well-worn boots.&nbsp; Honestly, watching and listening to Will provided me with more diversion than the topless chicks.&nbsp; (That sounds like something out a &#8220;you know you&#8217;re getting old when&#8230;&#8221; skit, but it&#8217;s true.)&nbsp; He had many memorable lines, few of which can be repeated.&nbsp; One of my favorites was when he wandered by, soaked from head to toe, (and still in the clothes described above) and stated &#8220;%$&amp;%#*-*$%#@, that was a bad decision.&#8221;&nbsp; Other than that, the synopsis above pretty well covers things, with the exception of a few items filed under &#8220;what goes on south of the border, stays south of the border.&#8221;&nbsp; Well, there are several little &#8220;catch phrases&#8221; we picked up on, (besides Will&#8217;s,) but they just wouldn&#8217;t work on here.&nbsp; You have to actually hear them, and for that matter you have to hear them the FIRST time to get the full effect.&nbsp; So never mind on those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we made it back from Mexico safe and sound.&nbsp; We ducked out last Wednesday morning, under cover of darkness, and boarded a plane for Playa Del Carmen.&nbsp; We had some first class tickets in our hands, thanks to our Albuquerque traveling buddies Jill and David.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll say one thing, it&#8217;s a darn site closer [&hellip;]<\/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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}