Mexico 2016

I am trying to get all the summer vacations up on the blog. I will start with this one as it was in June, and it should be a short post.

This year we headed to Secrets Playa Mujeres. Again, we traveled with Gail and Shaun. This time they arrived a few days before us, and left a few days before us. We each had time alone as a couple, but a few days together as well. We LOVED this place. I thought I would not like it as much since the resort is split in half. The side by the beach has the pools and the rooms, and a few restaurants. Then to get to the side farther from the beach you take a golf cart (or walk). I thought I would not like the waiting and moving. But we never waited long for a ride. The other side had the other restaurants, the bars, and dance club. Basically, you could stay all day at the side by the beach, eat breakfast and lunch, and swim. Then in the evening you could go to the other side for dinner and drinking or dancing after dinner. We are more low-key, and spent little time on that side. But the resort seemed less crowded and quieter because it was broken up. I also really liked the pool. It was one big pool, bt it was broken up so it never felt crowded. (Until the 250 Yogis showed up and rudely took over the beach. And the other people who seemed to not like that there were no beach chairs left at 1:30 in the afternoon so they would take chairs and umbrellas from anyone not looking. Including when Shaun was sitting there.)

Kevin was glad he got to finish the book he started last summer. It is called Hyperion Cantos, and it is actually two books compiled into one, which explains why it is so long. I have started reading it, but with school starting up soon, I don't know how long it will take for me to finish it. (It is really good, though.)

View from our room this year. We had a swimout pool, but it was so cold that I didn't really care about it after one time using it.

Down on the beach.

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I almost forgot about this until I saw the picture. There was a big storm over Cancun, and we spent time on the beach and in the ocean watching it for a few hours. We could see the rain and everything, but it never really hit us. It rained a bit while we were getting ready for dinner, but that was it.

View from the end of the pool. Under the purple flowers are the suites, with their own pools.

So that mean this end of the pool was over their rooms. And that strip in the pool was a glass-bottom that was over the hallway to their rooms!

Also, I broke my toe.