Top Ten: Cancun Adventures

I thought I would be bored. Laying on the beach gets old. I was wrong.

10. The pineapple. Fresh pineapple with every meal. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Turns out there is a lot of fiber in pineapple. By the end of the trip, I was more "regular" than I'd ever been.

9. The hammocks. Good for reading, sleeping, and getting sun burned. (And it usually happens in that order)

8. Traveling two and a half hours to Cozumel. Thanks to Tony's fine Spanish skills we were able to catch the city bus to downtown Cancun (60 cents and 20 minutes), then jump on a Greyhound style air conditioned bus down to Playa del Carmen ($6 and 90 minutes), only to get on a ferry to Cozumel from there ($11 and 45 minutes). Quite the adventure considering we were the only white people on everything except the ferry. I got very good at saying "Hola", "Gracias" and executing the "smile and nod". (hello, thank you and I have no idea what you're saying)

7. Manda's impression of a chinese person imitating a white person. It wasn't funny until we asked why she was making her eyes so wide. Her reply? "Well, chinese people's eyes are slits, so if they want to imitate a white person, they have to make them bigger." It had us laughing so hard we cried.

6. Running around in bikini tops and board shorts. This is an adventure for me because I'd never worn a bikini anything before. I only flashed my nips a couple of times... not intentionally of course.

5. Ana our waitress the last night in Cancun. She was so good at providing potent alcoholic drinks, she had Manda and Tony toasted in 5 drinks. In fact poor Tony puked his guts out during dinner. Not to worry, he felt much better afterwards.

4. Snorkeling in Cozumel. We went out on one of those "glass bottom" boats... which really turned out to be an old, rickety boat with plexiglass inserts. It was so high class it required someone to hold wires from the motor to a battery under the backseat. At first we thought it was scary, then it was funny. Really, who's idea was it to combine water and naked electrical wires?! I don't think the guides get paid enough for possible electrocution.

3. I bought a silver ring at one of the markets in Cancun. It became my "lesbionic" ring. Named because it looked like something Wonder Woman would wear. Not sure how we made the jump from Wonder Woman to the Bionic Woman, but somehow we did. Once the jump was made, the ring was named.
2. No clocks anywhere. Never knowing what time it was. This often resulted in us trying to eat at very odd times, but it was strangely freeing. If I only I could avoid clocks in real life! I already hate alarm clocks and refuse to use them. I think I would be ostracized if I avoided clocks all together. Plus, I'm obsessed with watches.

1. Sun bathing. We watched women sun bathe topless. We watched men sun bathe topless. We watched iguanas sun bathe topless. There was a lot of topless sun bathing going on. There were also a lot of sun burned white people. We didn't join the sun burned white people club until Monday. And trust me, we had tan lines. Topless sun bathing is a sport we'd prefer to watch instead of participate in. Our nipples are assests worthy of protection.

Manda and I have been peeling since we got back. I guess the fun doesn't stop when the vacation ends!!

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Peace Out!
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