Mexico

Finally, the vaunted Mexico pictures. There are a fat lot of them, so bear with me! This stunning number was found upon arrival in the bathroom in our hotel room. How pretty. The hotel was really nice, by the way.


This was the view from our balcony.




Out wandering the beach. There were a bunch of guys parasailing, and I was totally going to do it, but then we found out they were asking $75 for about 10 minutes in the sky. Nope. Mexico is a place of bargaining, and we tried to talk them down, but they wouldn't budge under $60.

Our hotel from the beach...

We sat by the pool and drank smoothies brought to us by waiters wearing all white.

Sponch. It's what this delicious little number is called. It's a soft graham crackery kind of bottom with marshmallow puffs covered in coconut (similar to a snoball) and a smattering of strawberry jam or some such in the middle. You just get them in convenience stores and they are wonderful.

On day two we went whale watching, which we've always wanted to do, and here it was actually pretty inexpensive. Here I am on the boat.

Nothing spectacular, although it's amazing to think that these enormous creatures are wandering around out there in the water. One actually did jump out like you see in National Geographic, but we weren't ready with the camera, and my spot on the boat actually put me in back of several people. The tails are cool, anyway. We saw a lot of those.

We took a taxi to the city, which was this bizarre blend of filth and beauty. There are these strange statues all over the place, and this lady was selling shrimp on a stick which we saw her pull out of her tote bag. Who knows how long that shrimp was in there!

One cool thing is the sand sculptures along the Maracon, which is the main street through town. The guys build a giant sand mound like a sand castle, and then carve away the excess to make all kinds of things. This was in honor of Valentine's Day.

This is what they use to form the giant mound.

This was actually pretty disgusting. This water was filthy, and I mean you could smell the sewage in it filthy. Yet, here are a bunch of kids and their dogs playing in it.

Pretty sunsets, although it was cloudy for much of our short trip.

Anyway, we took a bajillion more pictures, but a lot of them were us just messing around trying to figure out the new camera. We had a great time, and I only got a little sun on the whale trip. It truly was a fascinating place, but again, scary dirty. I can see how people get sick like crazy going down there, but, we didn't, and now Brad can say he's gotten me south of the border, which I have never been too keen on. (I don't do scary dirty very well.) Most of all, it was nice to be warm!