So, welcome back to my semi-annual blog. This is a medium that takes literally seconds to create and deliver and I can only get around to it twice a year....oh well. However, let me repeat a fairly accurate conversation that happened on the streets of Cozumel, Mexico today.
Me: "You ready to go diving!??!"
Jon: "Yep. Are you going to keep some sort of record or journal about this trip?"
Me: "What like a log?"
Jon: "Yes, a log."
Me: "As in...a WEB-log, or a 'blog' if you will? As in... the one I already have that I don't post to?"
And so, here we are.
Cozumel Trip - Monday, October 21, 2008
The van picked us up at 4am. Well, 3:57am. It's the first time one of those things has ever been early - but we were ready. Very, very tired, but ready. We hauled an incredible amount of luggage out of the house and climbed into the van behind a very forlorn looking driver. The man looked like he had just been given some very bad news - kind of like he didn't care about anything anymore - like he had bigger issues than our petty vacation and he sure as hell wasn't going to use turn signals thank you very much! But despite Suicidal Steve we made it to the airport with our spirits soaring to FINALLY go on this much deserved vacation. We even zipped through security in MINUTES!!!
So, yeah, we're traveling internationally. And it took us about 10 minutes to clear everything. Yeah.
Well, anyway, both plane trips were fine. Even the layover wasn't too excruciating. 2.5hours/3hours/2.5hours - not short, but not long enough to want to choke on airplane pretzels or smash your inadequately small plastic cup of soda in an attendant's face. The second plane was a prop plane - not exactly a smooth or quiet ride. But I played with my ipod and tuned everything out.
Oh my ipod. My brand new gorgeous, finally configured Rosebud red ipod. I left you on the plane and I will NEVER see you again. And now someone is listening to Tiesto on you with MY ear buds. How disgusting and unfair life is....
Anyway. Even getting our luggage and going through "customs" was easy. Do you want to know what customs is in Cozumel? The "agent" says, please press this red button, and you do. Done. Finito.
Grabbed a crowded shuttle to the hotel. Not too bad. And definitely not the crowded broken down school bus with chickens on the floor you might expect if you watched "Romancing the Stone" too many times. Arrived at Casa Mexicana which is on a beautiful waterfront.
We checked in with no problems (see a trend here) and tracked down our dive shop. Blue XTSea is on the same block as the hotel so we went there and checked in....and guess what...no problems there either. We must be on vacation.
Our final adventure of the evening was finding and eating at Kinta - a new "modern mexican cuisine" restaurant in town. The trip there threatened to ruin my diving potential as the sidewalks were extremely slippery and my cheap flipflops might as well have been greased on the bottom. The food was worth it though. Panko-crusted gulf shrimp over mashed plaintains, Seafood risotto with scallops - freakin' amazing.
Okay enough....the rest of the posts should be a bit shorter!
P.S. If anyone finds an 8gig red ipod lovingly placed in a clear plastic case with a set of music on it that no one else on the planet would ever listen to - please notify me.
3 comments:
Seafood risotto with scallops... yum!
Hope Day 2 goes just as well! Thanks for the updates, fun to read :)
Oh, that sucks. The iPod part, not the rest of your vacation that is so far running smoothly. Poor iPod.
you're right, no one ever would listen to your music. HAHA love you and hope you and john are having a fantastic time. p.s.- the idea for me to be 21 for halloween was a huge success. except i'm probably going to be the russia to my friend's sarah palin.
love your thoroughly jealous cousin, rach
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