Cancun

Crazy week leading up to Cancun. 

Wednesday 10/23
After doing my 6A before sunrise road ride, Tracy told me my passport expired.  Thankfully she had a whisper in her mind that AM telling her to pull the passports out in preparation for our trip.  Emergency trip to DC in lieu of work that day.   Got my passport.  Sigh.  Could have been much worse had I discovered that boo-boo Friday morning at the airport.

Thursday
Back to work one more day before our trip.   2:30P during a project team meeting.  I fell out.  From totally ok to feeling like I was going to pass out.  Lightheaded.  Slurred speech. Hot flashes.  Cold Chills.   Emergency trip to Patient First.  After a few hours, I was released and cleared to go to mexico.  Doc even told me to extra chill with the help of a few adult bevys.  What a day?  What a week? I have a habit of ignoring early warning signs from my body.  T now says my body goes to extreme measures to get my effin attention.


Friday
Left house at 6:30A for our AM flight.  Beltway was jammed clogged so this time it was an emergency get off the flippin' highway and take the backroads.  Added an extra 30 min but made it in time to check in and relax a quick second.

Flight left and we arrived Cancun 12-1p their time.   We expected a private car to have a Tillman/Pafel sign at the airport exit based on our trip last year. No sign.  Tons of taxi drivers.  Tons of other locals with signs for other travelers.

Emergency cell phone call (thanks to a local) to the hotel.  They were showing our reservation for the trip was cancelled.  ***SIGH***

At this point, we told local cell buddy to hook us up with ride to the hotel so we could speak to our Mexican friends in person and try to figure out what the @#*%^ was going on.

Told T I must stay chill or my arse was going to end up in a Mexican hospital.  :-/

We arrived and the hotel was "already on the case" for us.  4 STAR mega service.  2 hand massages for each of us and 2 margaritas and we started to relax.

Just a bumpy start, wouldn't you say?  Just a tad.

Friday - Saturday - Sunday - Monday AM

View from our Room

Skies were a tad threatening but dammit we enjoyed our beach time

Cancun.  While the weather was not perfect with intermittent rain and mega storms and partly cloudy skies in between, we made the most of it.   The food was amazing.  I had dessert with EVERY meal.  I had cocktails starting very early in the day *wink*.  
I made the decision early to try to do things I normally don't do.   Chill.  Eat.  Drink.  Repeat.  Then Repeat again.  It was nice.  No more emergencies during this part of our trip.





Monday 
We left the hotel around 1030A.  Our quick trip quickly came to an end.  At the airport about 30 min prior to boarding time, Air Tran announced that the flight was cancelled.  Hydraulic hose broke.  No more flights back to Baltimore (or the U.S.) that day.   Emergency hose was called in and was expected tomorrow.  103 passengers.   It took a little while but Air Tran did ok.   They arranged buses back to Cancun and a hotel, the RIU. 

While we really expected to be back in our cozy home with our furballs, we made the most of it.
We bonded with our 103 new friends at the hotel and drank Dirty Bananas while cheering the Cardinals in the World Series game.

Tuesday - extra morning
We were on the 2nd flight for Baltimore that day (1 of 2) at 2:00P.   That meant we could enjoy most of the morning out in the sun.  We suited up and enjoyed the first amazingly sunny day of the trip.  :-)

Back to the airport by noon and this time, our flight took off.  No emergencies.  Thank God.

We got home around 10P.  Finally!   And we got Air Tran to comp us 2 more round trip air tickets.

Next Trip.
LONGER, maybe 5 nights...
And we're thinking Dominican Republic in February.