A Week in Cancun, Mexico

 Ken and I spent a week at an all-inclusive resort in Cancun, Mexico May 9th-16th.  It was a fun, relaxing week.

Ready to fly from St. George airport

The first leg of our journey from St. George to Dallas was miserable, creating  tremendous pain in my back.  But the flight from Dallas to Cancun was very comfortable.  We ended up with a whole row of seats each.

We got dinner at the Dallas airport.  The clerk where we ate was sure Ken was this actor, JK Simmons.  She thought she was serving a celebrity.  What do you think?  Do you see the resemblance?

We stayed at the Royalton Chic Cancun resort.  It was very nice.

Ken took some beautiful pictures of the resort and views therefrom.

Ken had read about the sargassum seaweed problem in the oceans.  We saw it firsthand.  It had a distinctive smell, too.

Hot dude.

Ken took several pictures of this site.  What he was really trying to capture was the bird on the rock.  He wanted to capture it so he could key it down when he got back to the room.  It ended up being a new life lister for him- a Brown Noddy.

More sargassum

The sunset view from our verandah

Day view

Inside our beautiful room

We spent our afternoons down by the ocean and poolside.  It was so beautiful and pleasant.

Cancun and our resort were all about partying.  One day they filled the pool with bubbles, played loud music and danced and danced.  Drunk people are quite entertaining.

At the far end of the pool was a walk-up bar.  Most of the people congregated by the bar.  One afteroon, we watched as two young women were so drunk they required assistance to get out of the pool and the staff brought a wheelchair because they were too drunk to walk.

Our window seats at a restaurant.

The food was absolutely delicious.  We usually ate breakfast and lunch at the amazing buffet and dinner in a specialty restaurant.

Every lunch, they offered grilled fish and seafood that they would grill to order.  Wow, it was good.

We ate in the Mexican restaurant the first night.  This was a tomato soup with seafood. So yummy!

A seafood cocktail.

Yummy tacos

Fish taco

Because of the humidity, salt wouldn't come out of the salt shakers.  Ken loves salt.  He got a lot at the Mexican restaurant in a small bowl, so he put it in a ziploc to carry with him and use throughout the week.  Problem solved.

We drank a lot of virgin pina coladas and strawberry daiquiris

The 2nd night we ate at the Asian restaurant.  Everything was beautifully presented and delicious.

Well, all except the dessert.  This dessert was beautiful, but tasted terrible.

The Italian restaurant was our least favorite of all of them.  Though this appetizer buffet was delicious.

They gave us the best table in the house.  The view was gorgeous.

Our favorite restaurant was the steak house.  We ate there three nights.  Everything was delicious.  My favorite was the salmon.  Ken loved the short ribs.

Empanada appetizers

Creme brulee'- Ken's favorite dessert was offered every night.

Short ribs

Ribs

We enjoyed the week.  We both read and studied a lot .  We swam every afternoon and, as is evident, enjoyed the delicious food.