Mexico Day 3

The beautiful weather had disappeared by Monday. We had been in the pool 15 minutes when the lightning began.  Back to the room we went and games were pulled out. By mid-afternoon the weather had cleared enough for us to embark on our next adventure. We got dressed and planned to take a ride down memory lane.We were going to walk down to catch the local bus, but the hotel shuttle was right outside the lobby.  We jumped on and that took us halfway to where we were headed.  It dropped us off at a sister resort so we took a few minutes to walk around.

We then took the bus to La Isla.  Marc and I went to this outdoor shopping mall when we were on our honeymoon.  It was fairly new at that time and we have had a running joke in our family about my "Mexican filtered water" experience there. We walked around for a bit and grabbed some ice-cream

 

We did a little souvenir shopping and the girls made a "tough face" while wearing some sombreros.

Another quick ride on the bus took us to Pancho and Willy's.  We enjoyed a Mexican fiesta and a show of Mexican dances.

Kayla and Macy even joined the dancers on stage at one point.  Brooke wanted nothing to do with it, but we had a great time watching the girls.  Once Marc gets his phone back (another story for another post) I'll add the pictures of the girls dancing.

 We returned to our hotel a little after nine, but when you are on vacation that doesn't mean it's bedtime...

it's pool time! The pool lighting changed colors at night and the girls were dying to swim in "colored water." We only had about 30 minutes to swim before the pool closed, but they of course had a great time.

Another day ends and we headed to bed exhausted once again.

Mexico Day 2

Saturday morning brought another day of sunshine. We rented a kayak and Marc took each of the girls out for a little adventure.  They absolutely loved it.

We only had the kayak for an hour so each girl got a 20 minute ride. Sweet Brooke was having a great time, but she told her Daddy that she wanted to give up half of her time so I could go too. Because the water was so shallow we were able to let the kids play while we went out for a bit. Don't worry, we stayed very close by.

Macy's turn!

And then of course it was eventually time to head back to the pool.

Yesterday the girls were introduced to the strawberry daiquiri.  You can see below how they felt about that. And they were also introduced to the Shirley Temple on this trip. That was another huge favorite.

Of course Mama had to have some pictures taken.

LOVE these monkeys!

And LOVE their daddy!

 

After pictures we went to have dinner at a nice Italian restaurant on the resort, but we had to make another stop to see the turtle friends on the way.  Everyone loved their dinner and ate very well. I guess swimming all day makes for hungry babies! 

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.