Mexico Vacation Day 1

I will start off these series of posts with my usual vacation disclaimer.  There will be a lot of pictures. A lot. This blog is my scrapbook and therefore I fill it up with lots of cute pictures and memories. OK, you have been warned. :)

So about 3 1/2 years ago Marc won an award from his company.  He was selected as one of 10 engineers throughout the entire company and named Engineer of the Year.  It was quite a huge honor and we enjoyed a weekend trip to headquarters in NYC that winter. Part of his award was a stock award, and he couldn't touch it for 3 years.  That's the way his company keeps employees around.  They lock up money in stock for 3 years and you can have it if you are still at the company 3 years later. So anyway, Marc wanted to do something fun with this money, and he had enough frequent flyer points for us all to fly to Mexico for practically free. Early this year we started looking at places to go on vacation and we ended up with Cancun, Mexico.  Marc and I have been twice before, and it's a fairly cheap option compared to other locations. Because we were flying on points we had some less than ideal flight times, but that was totally okay to fly for free.  We arrived in our room about 10PM (11PM body clock time), so of course we ordered room service pizza. We were on vacation at an all-inclusive resort after all.

The next day was beautiful and the girls couldn't wait to get swimming.

 

The girls found some friends and we stopped by several times a day to say hi. 

After breakfast the girls took a quick walk on the beach.

And then it was time for swimming! Our resort was in a great location.  The water was super calm and super shallow.  This allowed the girls to play without us being worried about the undertow.

 

 

 After a late night and a morning playing hard in the sun, this girl crashed and took an hour nap on the beach. That was pretty awesome.

 

After Brooke's nap we headed to the pool. The girls played hard all afternoon too.

 Back to our turtle friends.  Kayla quickly discovered that if she splashed her fingers in the water the turtles would swim over. I never saw anyone feeding them, but they seemed to be trained to come to people for some reason.

 This was the view from our room. Breathtaking.

The girls fell asleep quickly and slept hard. It was a perfect day in paradise.