I Fought The Lawn

Tuesday March 28th, 2006

If yesterday was our "Drunk Day", today is our "Hangover Day". We'd planned to go to Playa del Carmen, the local town, but we cancelled it because we both felt like crap. We had breakfast at La Brisa around 8am and decided to slum it all day on the beach, which we did until 1pm. Doing a whole lot of nothin' has it's merits after being that drunk, and we recovered nicely. Around 1pm, we had our pictures taken on the beach with a pair of macaws, and we picked them up later at the gift shop. We also ate lunch with Ron and Chris at Bamboleo, and as suspected the food sucks here. My mother would later tell me that while Mexico's good for service and amenities, the food's not that great anywhere. Before laying around the pool for the remainder of our recovery period, I managed to get our sandals and sun block back from security's lost and found area, so that was something of a relief. Walking around in sneakers here would have sucked.

We had a siesta from 3pm until 5pm and killed some time with some picture-taking afterwards before going to the Italian restaurant, which we'd arranged our reservations for at 7:30. The food was fantastic, and it was nice to have a little bit more formal dining than the rest of the resort. After a great meal there, we bought snacks for our roomand hung around the place, exploring what we hadn't seen yet. There was a really great show in the ballroom that involved dancing at 9:30, and we went to El Abuelo first (known to us as the Bon Jovi Bar because every time we went in or by it, Bon Jovi was playing on the stereo system). After the show, we crapped out in our room until 11:30.